Germany’s policy guidelines for the Indo-Pacific region with Dr Gabriele Maluga, Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany

Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions in Western Australia, the University Club of Western Australia is closed until the weekend. This event has been postponed and the new date will be uploaded shortly.

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In September 2020, the German government published its Policy Guidelines for the Indo-Pacific.  At this event, the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr Gabriele Maluga, will discuss why the Indo-Pacific region is so important to Germany, the seven areas covered by Germany’s foreign policy in the Asia Pacific, and what this means for Australia’s relationship with Germany.

This is a members only event.

About The Speaker

As of 12 June 2019, Dr Gabriele Maluga holds the position of Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany in Perth for the State of Western Australia.

She is a founding Director and Company Secretary of Janssen + Maluga Legal, a German Australian law firm in Perth, Western Australia. She brings two decades’ experience successfully negotiating, litigating or mediating corporate matters on behalf of corporate claimants and defendants as well as representing individuals as victims of catastrophic accidents.  Before founding her law firm she worked in project finance for major US and British law firms around the world. In addition, she is an accredited specialist for German criminal defence. Gabriele wrote her Doctor thesis in criminal law and criminal procedural law on the topic of undercover agents, with a specific focus on decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Holding a practising certificate as a Rechtsanwältin (German Lawyer) as well as a solicitor in Western Australia, she advises under both German and Australian law. The main emphasis of her advisory work is on (international) catastrophic injury cases (cross-border cases Germany/Australia), (international) commercial law and German and EU criminal law.

Her corporate experience is based on her involvement as the Chief Executive Officer of an international stainless-steel trading company as well as holding different management positions in other commercial entities for over 20 years.

She was a long-standing elected member of the Executive Committee of the Union des Avocats Européens (U.A.E. – European Lawyers Association). From 2017 to 2019 Gabriele served as an elected Board Member of the Western Australian-German Business Association (WAGBA) in Perth.

Gabriele is the author and co-author of publications on various issues of Commercial, Criminal and European law.