Catharina Maracke

Catharina is a lawyer by training and has been involved in intellectual property and public licensing models for more than 20 years beginning career as director at Creative Commons managing the global license porting project. She has founded the Software Compliance Academy, a private training and consulting firm to support clients in their Open Source journey and has worked closely with the World Economic Forum, where she served on the Global Agenda Council on the Intellectual Property system.

Her academic appointments include faculty positions at Keio University and visiting positions at Bucerius Law School, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Puerto Rico, and the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.

Catharina is a member of the Council for the Legal Network at the Free Software Foundation Europe and a fellow at the Open Forum Europe. She has been elected to the OSI board in October 2021 and served as board chair April 2022 to March 2024.