ISL Management
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Lemper
Scientific Managing Director
Professor for the International Shipping and Chartering programme at Bremen University of Applied Sciences
Burkhard Lemper, born in 1967, studied economics at the University of Münster and has been working at the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics since 1993. In 1996 he received his doctorate from the University of Bremen, his work was awarded the Carl Pirath Prize of the DVWG (German Association of Transport Science). In 2008, he was appointed professor at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen and teaches, among other things, the fundamentals of the maritime economy and the shipping markets in the international study programme Shipping and Chartering. Burkhard Lemper was appointed scientific managing director of ISL in July 2009.
Burkhard Lemper's research and consulting activities focus, for instance, on market analyses and forecasts in the areas of shipping, ports with their hinterland, shipbuilding and intermodal transport, as well as transport planning and modelling at regional, national and international level for land and sea transport.
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Prof. Dr. Nils Meyer-Larsen
Scientific Managing Director
Professor in the Integrated Safety and Security Management (ISSM) degree programme at Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences
Nils Meyer-Larsen, born in 1969, studied physics at the University of Hamburg and obtained his doctorate in physics as part of the ZEUS collaboration at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg. He has been working for the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics since 2000, initially as a software developer and project manager, later as a competence area manager in the field of maritime security. Since 2020, he has built up ISL's Maritime Hydrogen research group and led the corresponding activities. He has been Scientific Managing Director of ISL since February 2025.
Since 2010, Nils Meyer-Larsen has also been a lecturer at Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches on the Integrated Safety & Security Management (ISSM) Master's programme and has held a professorship since 2025. Nils Meyer-Larsen specialises in the security and resilience of global supply chains and maritime infrastructures, satellite-based services for the maritime industry, as well as applications and transport processes for hydrogen-based energy sources in the maritime economy and logistics.
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Christoffer Dehne
Administrative Managing Director
Christoffer Dehne, born in 1977, studied economics at the University of Bremen majoring in accounting and international economic relations. Christoffer Dehne held various positions at the 4S Holding GmbH from 2007 to 2013. Most recently, he was an authorised signatory at Breitband Innovationen Nord. Since September 2020, he has been commercial director at the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics.
The focus of his work at ISL is the management of accounting, controlling, human resources and general organisation.
