Gerlind Wisskirchen is a specialist lawyer in the area of labor and employment law with a special focus on advising international corporations. The excellence of her advice lies in her profound understanding of the business environments of her clients, her analytic ability and her strategic, precise, clear recommendations. Her endeavors extend beyond simply providing legal advice. She and her team are performance-driven and creative and strive to forge workable and strategic client-focused solutions so that businesses can achieve their business objectives. Part of this advice is project management, thus understanding the relevant factors, defining the goals, selecting the best methods and tools, and precisely implementing the set objectives. Gerlind Wisskirchen advises multinational corporations particularly on the issues of reorganization, national and international labor and employment law and compliance. She provides support to management – as a strategic advisor or member of the supervisory/advisory board – from the HR and labor and employment law perspective when business plans and strategies are being developed. Gerlind Wisskirchen is an expert on digitalization of the world of work and editor of the report ""Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Their Impact on the Workplace" for the Global Employment Institute.

In a globalized world in which national borders are increasingly diminishing and corporations are facing global challenges, she has particular expertise in cross-border projects like business reorganizations (outsourcing, off-shoring), compliance issues, cross-border compensation programs, cross-border audits and internal investigations, board level codetermination, matrix structures of multinational corporations, the European works council, the implementation of codes of conduct, whistleblowing systems and IT-systems, the posting of employees and data privacy protection issues. She developed the "EU Labor & Employment Law Navigator," a comparative analysis of the labor and employment law systems in Europe.

Gerlind Wisskirchen is a regular moderator and panelist at national and international conferences on the legal issues of international HR management and on issues of cross-border Labor and employment law, such as the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the American Employment Law Council. She is a lecturer for the MBA program "International Human Resources Management" at Cranfield University, UK, one of the leading European business schools. She has published numerous articles in German and in English.

Functions:

- Member of the Committee for International Social Policy (Ausschuss International Sozialpolitik), Verband der Metall- und Elektro-Industrie Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. (METALL NRW)

- Council Member and Vice-Chair for Multinationals of the IBA Global Employment Institute

- Vice-Chair of Cross-Border HR (XBHR), a global multidisciplinary forum for international HR and employment law experts focused on creative solutions to global HR issues.

- Immediate past chair of the Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee of the International Bar Association.

- Co-chair of the International Subcommittee of the ERR Committee, American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section.

- Member of the advisory board and lecturer at Cranfield University, UK, for the MBA program in International Human Resources Management.

- Member of the Labor Lawyers Advisory Committee of CUE, an organization for positive employee relations.

- Member of the labor and employment lawyers advisory board of the German Federal Bar.

- Member of the American Employment Law Council, the International Association of Defense Counsel, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the international association of labor and employment lawyers "Worklaw Network".

- Founding Member of Lions Club Clara and Robert Schumann in Bonn.

Studied law at the University of Bonn, the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Georgetown University, USA. PhD in 1993 on "Indirect Discrimination in Employment (Disparate Impact Cases): USA – Europe". Student and graduate scholar of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Worked for two U.S. law firms (1991-1992, 1995) and for the international department of the German Treasury (1995-1998). Joined the law firm in 1998 to strengthen the international section of the labor and employment law team.