Advisory Board

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 Managing 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

Member of the Management Board, VOLKSWOHL BUND Versicherungen

Hartmut Jenner

Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Board of Management, Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG

Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley

Chairman of the Supervisory Boards
E.ON SE and Deutsche Lufthansa AG

Professor Dr. Renate Köcher

Executive Director, Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach

Franz-Josef Kortüm

Chairman of the Advisory Board
Brose Group
Member of the board of directors of Autoliv Inc.

Professor Dr. Ulrich Lehner

Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Telekom AG

Ulrich Leitermann

Chairman of the Management Board, SIGNAL IDUNA Gruppe

Dipl.-Kfm. Thomas Löhning

Managing Director, Versorgungswerk der Architektenkammer NRW

Dr. Markus Michalke

Managing Partner, Alveus Beteiligungen GmbH

Hildegard Müller

President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry

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

Peer Schatz

Managing Director, PS Capital GmbH

Andreas Schmitz

President of IHK Düsseldorf

Professor Dr. Klaus Schweinsberg

Centre for Strategy and Higher Leadership

Stephan Seifert

Chairman of the 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

(as of November 2023)