BMW Group profile.

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG, Former Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG

*Born in 1956 

Nationality: German

• Studies of Mechanical Engineering at Fachhochschule München, Graduation as Diplom-Ingenieur (FH); Studies of Production Technology and Operating Science at Technische Universität München, Graduation as Diplom-Ingenieur; Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) at Technische Universität München
• 1987 joined BMW AG – Head of Maintenance Planning
• 1989 – 1991 Director of Control Technologies and Process Data Management
• 1991 – 1994 Director of the Body-in-White Production Division
• 1994 – 1997 Technical Director BMW South Africa
• 1997 – 2000 President BMW Manufacturing Corporation, USA (South Carolina)
• 2000 – 2006 Member of the Board of Management: Production
• September 2006 – May 2015 Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG
• since May 2015 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG

Chairman of the European and General Works Council 

*Born in 1955

Nationality: German

• Industrial engineering degree (Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur) from Karlsruhe Technical University (TH)
• 1980 joined BMW AG
• since 1987 Chairman of the Works Council, Munich
• since 1987 Chairman of the General Works Council of BMW AG
• since 1996 Chairman of the European Works Council
• since 1994 Alternate President of the Board of Directors of the BMW health insurance fund (BKK)
  

Entrepreneur

*Born in 1966 

Nationality: German

• Industrial engineering degree (Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur), Technical University Karlsruhe (TH)
• 1994 – 1996 Datacard, Marketing Manager Asia Pacific
• since 1996 independent entrepreneur
  

Chairman of the Works Council, Dingolfing

*Born in 1965 

Nationality: German

• Apprenticeship in power plant electronics; metalworking foreman
• 1985 joined BMW AG
• since 1995 member, since 2004 Chairman of the Works Council, Dingolfing
• since 2004 Deputy Chairman of the General Works Council

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the E.ON SE and of the Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft

*Born in 1951

Nationality: German

• Industrial business apprenticeship at Siemens AG, studied law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich; practical training in law in Hamburg and Johannesburg (South Africa)
• 1982 – 1998 Bayer AG, incl. executive functions in Finance and Pharmaceutical divisions, also in Japan and Italy
• 1998 – 2006 member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa AG, Finance division
• 2006 – 2007 Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA
• 2007 – 2016 Chairman of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA
• since June 2016 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of E.ON SE
• since September 2017 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft
  

Second Chairwoman of IG Metall

*Born in 1968 

Nationality: German

• 1987 – 1993 trained as a multilingual secretary at mechanical engineering company Carl Schenk AG; employed in Sales from 1989 on
• 1993 – 1999 studied sociology at the Philipp University of Marburg and the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
• 1995 – 1996 earned bachelor’s degree and worked in Chicago, USA
• since 1997 active in various branches and functions at IG Metall
• 2008 – 2011 divisional manager with the Executive Board of IG Metall (IT, engineering, target group work)
• 2011 – 2015 Executive Board member of IG Metall, specialised in IT, R&D, digitisation of work
• since 2015 Second Chairwoman of IG Metall, responsible for business policies, organizational development, target group work and equality, digitalization
  

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

*Born 1958

Nationality: German

• Studied Business Administration at Münster and Cologne universities and at Pennsylvania State University, USA
  
• 1985 – 1991 various functions in the finance division of BASF AG
  
• 1991 – 1992 Head of Technology, Director Planning and Controlling for Engineering Plastics, BASF AG
• 1992 – 1996 Senior Vice President Finance and Accounting, Robert Bosch GmbH
  
• 1996 – 1998 Managing Director, Robert Bosch Ltda., Brazil
  
• 1998 – 2000 CFO of BASF Corporation, USA
  
• 2000 – 2002 President of Logistics and Information Services, BASF AG
  
• 2003 – 2011 Member of the Board of Executive Directors and CFO of BASF AG (BASF SE since 2008), since 2007 also Chairman and CEO of BASF Corporation, USA
  
• 2011 – 2018 Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE
• since 2020 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

Department Head of the Works Constitution and Co-determination Policy Department with the Executive Board of IG Metall / (In-house) Lawyer

*Born in 1975

Nationality: German

• 1996 – 2001 Law studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt a.M.
• 2002 – 2004 First state examination in law and legal clerkship at the higher regional court (OLG) Frankfurt a.M., second state examination in law
• since 2005 Lawyer (company lawyer) with the Executive Board of IG Metall
• since 2015 Head of the Works Constitution and Co-determination Policy Department with the Executive Board of IG Metall / (In-house) Lawyer

Supervisory Board member

*Born in 1960

Nationality: German

• Electrical engineering degree (Diplom-Ingenieur), Technical University of Munich
• 1992 – 2007 various management positions within Siemens Group
• 2007 – 2010 member of the Board of Management, Siemens AG
• 2010 – 2011 Vice Chairman of the Board of Management, thyssenkrupp AG
• 2011 – 2018 Chairman of the Board of Management, thyssenkrupp AG
• since 2019 member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post AG

Scientific Director and Manager of EUREF Energy Innovation GmbH

*Born in 1957 

Nationality: German

• studied forestry and soil science (Diplom Forstwirt) at Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg i. Br. and Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
• 1986 – 1992 head of international research department of the mining company Kali und Salz AG (BASF Group), Kassel
• 1987 – 1990 scientific advisor for the World Resources Institute, Washington D.C., USA
• 1990 – 1991 Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii, USA, Chair of Geobotany
• since 1993 Chair of Soil Protection and Recultivation Faculty at Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus
• since 2007 scientific advisor on the High-tech Climate Protection Strategy of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
• 2007 – 2013 Scientific Executive Director and Chairman of the Academic Board of Directors of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
• since 2008 acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering, 2008 – 2017 President, since 2017 Vice President
• 2011 member of the German Federal Government’s “Secure Energy Supply” Ethics Committee
  
• since 2013 President of Euro-CASE (European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering), Paris, France
• since 2015 Chairman of the Administrative Board of RWI (Leibniz Institute for Economic Research), Essen

Entrepreneur

*Born in 1962

Nationality: German

• 1985 BSc Business Studies, University of Buckingham (UoB)
• 1988 MBA, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
• since 1991 independent entrepreneur 
  

Secretary to the Executive Board of IG Metall

*Born in 1963 

Nationality: German

• Apprenticeship as locksmith at Luitpoldhütte, Amberg
• 1987 – 1990 employee representative at Luitpoldhütte, Amberg
• since 1991 full-time official of the German Metalworkers’ Union (IG Metall)
• since 2008 General Representative of IG Metall Munich
• since 2008 member of the City Council of the state capital of Munich
• since 2011 member of the Executive Board of IG Metall

Chairman of the Works Council, Landshut

*Born in 1956 

Nationality: German

• Industrial systems electronics apprenticeship at Eicher in Landau an der Isar; trained as industrial manager at BMW AG in Landshut
• 1979 joined BMW AG
• 1979 – 1987 electronics maintenance technician
• 1987 – 1994 independent employee representative
• since 1994 Chairman of the Works Council, Landshut
  

Member of Supervisory Boards

*Born in 1960 

Nationality: German

• 1978 – 1981 Trained as assistant in audit and tax professions, Büro Schwark, Rammsee
• 1982 – 1987 Studied Business Administration at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, graduated with degree (Diplom)
• 1989 – 2012 various functions at Deutsche Lufthansa group in Germany and abroad
• 2012 – 2016 Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG (CFO), responsible for Finance and Aviation Services
• 2016 – 2017 Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Boehringer Ingelheim Group with responsibility for Finance
  

Member of the Works Council, Munich

*Born in 1963 

Nationality: German

• 1985 – 1988 studied Sinology at University of Munich; attended interpreting school
• 1988 – 1995 studied business administration at University of Munich (Diplom-Kauffrau)
• 1995 – 1999 University of Kassel, research assistant at Institute for Applied Work Science
• 2000 joined BMW AG
• since 2002 member of the Works Council, Munich

Member of the Works Council, Dingolfing

*Born in 1963 

Nationality: German

• Attended school of domestic science; apprenticeship as garment maker
• 1982 joined BMW AG
• since 1987 member of the Works Council, Dingolfing
• since 2008 Chair of the Committee for Safety, Ergonomics, Health and Environmental Protection at the Dingolfing site
• since 2018 Chair of the Committee for Occupational Safety of the General Works Council of BMW AG
  

Member of Supervisory Boards

*Born in 1962

Nationality: German

• Diploma in Business Management, studied at the University of Paderborn,
• 1988 – 1991 various positions at Bertelsmann AG
• 1991 – 1995 various functions at RTL Television
• 1995 – 2005 CFO (until 1998), since 1999 Managing Director of VOX Film- und Fernseh GmbH & Co. KG
• 2012 – 2017 Co-CEO of RTL Group S.A., Luxembourg
• 2005 – 2018 Managing Director of RTL Television und Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland GmbH
• 2012 – 2018 Member of the Board of Directors of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
• since 2010 Member of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
• since 2019 Non-executive director of Wayfair Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and member of the Supervisory Board of Serviceplan Group Management SE

Founder and CEO of Vianai Systems, Inc.

*Born in 1967

Nationality: U.S. American

• 1990 B.Sc. in Computer Science from Syracuse University, New York, USA
• 1990 – 1996 Doctoral studies (Ph.D.) at Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence, USA
• 1996 – 2002 Stations at Xerox, iBrain und Bodha, Inc.
• 2002 – 2010 Various positions at SAP AG
• 2010 – 2014 Member of the Executive Board of SAP AG (since May 2014: SAP SE), Head of all Products and Technology
• 2014 – 2017 CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Limited, India
• since 2018 Founder and CEO of Vianai Systems, Inc., USA
• since 2019 Board of Directors, Oracle
• since 2019 Member of Advisory Council of Standford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Senior Vice President Financial Services

*Born in 1960

Nationality: German

• 1979 – 1984 studied business administration (University of Regensburg), graduated with diploma in business administration
• 1985 – 1988 Research assistant at the institute for business taxation (University of Regensburg), doctorate in economics
• 1988 – 1989 Specialist International Corporate Taxation, Munich Reinsurance AG
• 1989 – 1998 Various function within BMW AG accounting
• 1998 – 2001 Vice President Group Financial Planning and Controlling
• 2001 – 2002 Executive Vice President CFO BMW (US) Holding Corp., USA
• 2003 – 2004 Vice President Sales Planning, Process and IT Planning
• 2005 – 2017 Senior Vice President Group Reporting
• since 2017 Senior Vice President Financial Services

Chairman of the Works Council, Regensburg

*Born in 1959

Nationality: German 

• Apprenticeship in electrical systems installation and power plant electronics with skilled worker certification (IHK)
• 1988 – 1989 qualified as industrial foreman for energy and control systems
• 1981 – 1985 electronics technician at Deutsche Bundesbahn in Regensburg
• 1985 joined BMW AG
• 1986 – 2000 employee representative and Deputy Chairman of the Works Council
• since 2000 Chairman of the Works Council, Regensburg