Advisory Board
(as of November 2024)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest
Chairman of the advisory board
ifo Institute
Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah
Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board and of the Shareholders’ Committee,
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Heinrich Deichmann
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer,
Deichmann SE
Harald Epple
Member of the Management Board,
Gothaer Versicherungsbank VVaG
Eckhard Forst
Chairman of the Managing Board,
NRW.BANK
Robert Friedmann
Chairman of the Central Management Board,
Würth Group
Dipl.-Kfm. Bruno Gantenbrink
Shareholder,
BEGA Gantenbrink-Leuchten KG
Dr. Hans Michael Gaul
Paul Hagen
Former Member of the Board of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG
Former chairman of the Supervisory Board HSBC Deutschland
Dr. Rolf Hellermann
Chief Financial Officer,
Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
Axel-Rainer Hoffmann
Hartmut Jenner
Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Board of Management,
Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG
Mathias Kiep
Chief Financial Officer
TUI AG
Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Professor Dr. Renate Köcher
Executive Director,
Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach
Franz-Josef Kortüm
Member of the Advisory Board Brose Group
Member of the advisory board Brose International SE
Philip Otto Krahn
Chief Executive Officer
Otto Krahn (GmbH & Co.) KG
Professor Dr. Ulrich Lehner
Member of the Supervisory Board,
Porsche Automobil Holding SE
Ulrich Leitermann
Chairman of the Management Board,
SIGNAL IDUNA Gruppe
Dipl.-Kfm. Thomas Löhning
Managing Director,
Versorgungswerk der Architektenkammer NRW
Roland Mauss
Member of the Management Board
Oryx Stainless AG
Dr. Markus Michalke
Managing Partner,
Alveus Beteiligungen GmbH
Hildegard Müller
President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry
Harm Ohlmeyer
CFO
adidas AG
Klemens Rethmann
Spokesman for the Board
RETHMANN SE & Co. KG
Shareholder Rethmann-Group
Dr. Sieghardt Rometsch
Former Spokesman of the Managing Partner
HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt KGaA
Petra Schadeberg-Herrmann
Managing Partner of Krombacher Brauerei
Bernhard Schadeberg GmbH & Co. KG
Andreas Schmitz
President of IHK Düsseldorf
Former Spokesman of the Management Board of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG
Professor Dr. Klaus Schweinsberg
Centre for Strategy and Higher Leadership
Stephan Seifert
Chairman of the Group Executive Board,
Körber AG
Katja de la Viña
Chairwoman of the Board Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG
Peter Vinnemeier
Co-Founder,
trivago N.V.
Managing Partner Monkfish Equity
Professor Dr.-Ing. Dieter H. Vogel
CEO,
Cassiopeia GmbH
Carola Gräfin von Schmettow
Former Chairwoman
of the Management Board,
HSBC Deutschland
Dr. Jürgen Voß
Chief Financial Officer,
NÜRNBERGER Beteiligungs-AG
Werner Wenning
Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board,
Bayer AG
Ute Wolf
Former Chief Financial Officer,
Evonik Industries AG