Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Dierks

About Christian

Christian is a Co-Founder of Dierks+Company and a Managing Partner.

Christian, M.D., J.D., is one of the leading lawyers for social and medical law in Germany, a General Practitioner, and a Professor for Health Services Research at Charité Berlin. He has been solving legal challenges at the intersection of medicine, pharmaceuticals, and law since 1990.

In 2018, he co-founded Dierks+Company. In the last twenty years, he has counseled in more than 100 early benefit assessment procedures for pharmaceuticals and succeeding price negotiations (AMNOG) as well as other HTA procedures for healthcare and life sciences products and technologies.

Prior to founding Dierks+Company, he was a founding partner of Dierks + Bohle, one of Germany’s leading law firms in healthcare and life sciences with 80 employees. Christian has published more than 100 books, book contributions, and essays. He teaches Digital Health at Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam and eHealth Business at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. He was President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinrecht and is a member of the Legal Committee of the German Federal Association of Pharmaceutical Industries (BPI), Chair of the Legal Working Group of the European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE), and other national and international committees and working groups.