Dr. Tilo Gerlach

Since 2001, Dr. Tilo Gerlach has been Managing Director of the Collecting Society for Performance Rights (GVL) and a lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Dr Gerlach, who holds a doctorate in law (after having studied in Berlin and Freiburg), was a trainee lawyer in Berlin and Washington from 1993 to 1995 and a research assistant at the Institute for Commercial Law at Humboldt University. From 1996 to 2001 Tilo Gerlach was legal advisor to the GVL, since 2006 he has been a lawyer. He is also President of AEPO-ARTIS, the European umbrella organization of collecting societies for performing artists, and Board Member of SCAPR, the international umbrella organization of collecting societies for performing artists.