Lars Lange, who was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1968, is a qualified maritime lawyer by train-ing and graduated from Göttingen University in 1995. Mr. Lange started his profession-al career as a maritime lawyer with the law firm Blaum Dettmers Rabstein in Bremen. From 1999 onwards he dedicated his professional life to marine insurance: first as head of the marine insurance department, underwriting and claims, with C. Wm. König GmbH & Co. KG based in Bremen. In October 2008 Mr. Lange took over the position as head of the marine and aviation insurance department at the German Insurance As-sociation (GDV) in Berlin.

In January 2013 he moved to his present position when he took over the office as Sec-retary General of the International Union of Marine Insurance e.V. (IUMI) where he takes – beyond others – care on IUMI’s IMO and EU activities and fosters the relations to other maritime stakeholders such as ship-owner associations, class, salvors, average adjusters, shipper and forwarders. In his capacity, Mr. Lange holds a number of honor-ary posts in the maritime environment.