Miriam Kunze heads a department for battery cell development at Volkswagen in Hefei. She previously worked on anode technology in Salzgitter. Before that, the trained chemist worked for Continental.Lindsay Chu will be the new CEO of DBS Asia Capital and Head of the investment department for China and Hong Kong. Chu joins from Nomura. At […]
“Beijing is certainly not the easiest place to be, but it is the most exciting place I can imagine as a journalist right now,” says Miriam Steimer. A few months ago she went to China as a correspondent for the German public broadcaster ZDF, and since October she has been head of the ZDF East […]
Justus Baese took on the position of Head of Risk at Volkswagen Finance China in November. The risk manager has worked for VW since 2018, including in Braunschweig and Lisbon. His new work location is Beijing.U. American-Chinese EV startup Faraday Future Intelligent Electric appointed Xuefeng Chen as its global chief executive officer on Monday. Among […]
Frank Kraushaar’s decision to study sinology was “completely clueless,” as he says today. “I wanted to live out my literary interests, but I wasn’t interested in classical European literary theories and doctrines.” He flipped through a study guide and came across sinology. “There was a sense of need to rethink literature,” Kraushaar recalls. He enrolled […]
Stefan Schnorr has been involved with digitization since the 1990s. Back then, when he was appointed to the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice from his judgeship, one of his first tasks was to set up the first Internet connections in the ministry’s press office. The days of screeching modems are long gone, but the subject still […]
Zhao Yide, previously governor of Shaanxi province, has been appointed provincial party secretary. This makes the 57-year-old the youngest provincial-level party chief in China. A party secretary holds more power than a governor in China.Is something changing in your organization? Why not let us know at heads@table.media!
The new building directive and rules on energy supply or transport: many EU decisions have a direct impact on cities and municipalities. That the municipalities have a direct line to Brussels is all the more important – a job for Lina Furch. The 40-year-old heads the Brussels office and the Department for Europe and International […]
Roland Eckert has been Visiting Professor at Ningbo University of Technology since the beginning of October. Eckert already holds an honorary professorship at the Business School of Wenzhou University since 2019.Kevin Khani joined Alibaba Group in Munich as Partner Manager earlier this month. Khani previously worked for Google in various positions. Is something changing in […]
Didier Reynders keeps chatting in the backseat of his limousine during the video interview – the 64-year-old Belgian is currently on his way from Brussels to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Reynders has a lot to talk about. He already had a long career as a minister in Belgium before becoming Ursula von der Leyen’s […]
Back then, in the early 2000s, the greatest adventures could be experienced on China’s railways. Hans-Joerg Schmerer still has fond memories of those times. He was on a backpacking trip with a friend – six weeks, from Beijing to Inner Mongolia. And with every kilometer the two of them traveled, Schmerer ventured deeper into a […]