Joshua McLarin will become new Managing Director for China at logistics company Imperial Logistics, based in Duisburg. He will be supported by Owen Li, who will lead the sales team in Shanghai as Head of Commercial. Marius Hayler becomes General Manager NIO Germany. He succeeds Ralph Kranz, who will leave the company at the end […]
Astrid Irrgang clearly enjoys her role between two worlds. Since last year, the native Hessian has been Managing Director of the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) in Berlin. Here, peace experts and military personnel are not only trained but also sent to areas of operation – from Kosovo to Iraq, from Mali to Afghanistan. […]
Zhong Ren becomes Director of Sinopec Group. He previously served as a senior executive at Sinochem Holdings, the oil, gas and chemical conglomerate formed by the merger of Sinochem Group and ChemChina. Zhong will also serve as Deputy Party Secretary of the natural gas and petroleum company.Tang Dengjie has been appointed Communist Party secretary in […]
Afghanistan, Israel, Hong Kong – James Blair Cunningham’s diplomatic career took the US-American around the world for thirty years. Even these days, as a retired diplomat, he remains an important observer of global affairs. Today, as chairman of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK), he monitors the tensions between Hong Kong’s aspirations for […]
Fan Yun now serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of China Media Group.Xiao Yanshun heads the State Council’s research office as Deputy Director.Wang Jingtao has moved from the post of Deputy Director of the National Administration of State Secrets Protection to the post of Deputy Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China. The post was previously held […]
The Brussels office of IG Metall, which Dirk Bergrath heads, is not particularly large. The 51-year-old opened the industrial union’s representative office with two colleagues in 2014, and the number of employees has not changed since then. Bergrath is also still there nine years later.After studying economics in Cologne and Brighton and completing his doctorate […]
Calvin Lan becomes the new CEO of Huawei in Ireland. He takes over from Tony Yangxu. Mark Qian will serve as country manager at credit insurer Coface. Qian joined Coface in 2019 as commercial director for China. He will be based in Shanghai.Is something changing in your organization? Let us know at heads@table.media!
“I actually have the luxury of two worlds,” David Denzer-Speck answers laughing when asked whether he likes Brussels or Frankfurt better. “Brussels is incredibly livable, especially with family; we’ve become rooted there,” he says. But of course, he says, he also enjoys his time in Frankfurt. “Brussels and Frankfurt are almost neighbors, three hours by […]
When asked why May-Britt Stumbaum, a researcher at the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (CISS) at the Bundeswehr University in Munich, is interested in security policy, she smiles: “I was always pretty good at math.” What Stumbaum alludes to: When she went to elementary school in the early 1980s, schoolchildren were required to participate […]
Lan Foan has been appointed China’s new Finance Minister. The 61-year-old succeeds Liu Kun, who had been finance minister since 2018. Previously, Lan was the party chief of the northern Chinese Shanxi province.Yin Hejun was appointed Minister of Science and Technology. Chinese state media on Tuesday reported on the changes at the top of the […]