Current Position

2016     Senior Consultant  Bette Westenberger Brink

Professional  Career

2020          Member of the UNIDROIT Working Group to create a Factoring Model Law

2014 - 2018   Oberserver at the United  Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) at the project  "Model Law on Secured Transactions" 

2013 - 2015   Lecturer at  Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

2009 - 2016    Trainer at the IFG Academy teaching Legal Basics on Cross-Border Factoring

2009 - today   Member of the Legal Committee of International Factors Group / FCI

2004 - today   Member of the Frankfurt  Chamber of Commerce Committee on Financial Services

2002 – 2007    Observer at the United Nations  Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) at the project  "Secured Transactions" 

2001 – 2019    Member of the board of the  Association of Credit- Management (BVCM)

1998 – 2001     Observer at the UNCITRAL to the working  groups and  the commission of the United Nations Commission on International Trade (UNCITRAL) in preparing the  UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade, adopted by the UN in 2001

1988 – 2007    Member of the Board of  EUROPAFACTORING, Brussels

1986  – 2007    Managing Director of the  German Factoring Association

1982  – 2018    Appointed examiner for  participation in state examinations in law by the ministry of Justice of the  Rhineland-Palatinate

1977 – 2015    Partner, Law Office of Dr.  Bette and Partners (now BETTE WESTENBERGER BRINK)

1976      Admission to the Bar 

1972  – 1977    Assistant at the Center  for  German and International Law  of Financial Services, Mainz

Law studies and Training

1968 – 1972    in Berlin, Bonn und  Mainz

Doctorate Award to  Dr. jur. 1976, University of Mainz, Center for  German and International Law  of Financial Services 

High School

Berlin  (Schadowschule) and
Horace Mann School, New York City, N.Y.