James Chater will be the new East Asia correspondent for Deutsche Welle. Chater previously worked for Taiwan Plus News, among others. He lives in Taipei. Liu Liehong has officially resigned as CEO and Chairman of the board of the state-owned communications company Unicom. It had already become known in the spring that Liu was to […]
Patricia Lips? The CDU politician is not well known to the general public, and a search on Google News yields little. Yet the 59-year-old from Hesse has held a number of important posts in her 20 years in the Bundestag, for example, as Chairwoman of the research committee, and she is now Deputy Chairwoman of […]
Mobility expert Philipp Reth has been appointed the new head of the Chinese market at Diconium, a digital strategy company based in Beijing. According to Diconium, Reth’s main focus in Beijing will be Volkswagen.Is something changing in your organization? Let us know at heads@table.media!
Gunnar Wiegand, outgoing Asia Director of the European External Action Service (EEAS), will become a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, after the summer break. There, he will become part of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies. Wiegand joined the EEAS in 2016. A successor has not yet […]
As a child, Anno Dederichs’ parents were gifted picture scrolls by a visiting scientist from Chengdu. Drawn on them were the mist-shrouded mountains of Sichuan Province. The image of these mountains burned itself into Dederich’s memory. It was not until years later that he saw them with his own eyes on his first trip to […]
Henrik Muller took over as the new Transformation Manager Operations for Continental in Germany in June. Muller was previously Head Of Production in Qingdao for almost three years.Charalabos Klados has been Senior Vice President at Colgate-Palmolive and General Counsel Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong, since July. Klados has been with the US company for […]
If you ask Daniel Leese how he came to China, he answers soberly: “It was more of a personal coincidence; in principle, it could have been any other country.” By personal coincidence, he means the Chinese characters that sparked a lasting fascination near the end of his school years and ensured that he ticked the […]
Alexander Will returns to Beijing to take up the post of Senior Director Product Management E-Mobility at VW China. Will has ten years of experience in the automotive industry with the Volkswagen Group in Germany and China. Most recently, he spent almost three years in Wolfsburg as Senior Director Electric & Connected Modules. Zhou Jiangyon, […]
At Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Dr. Sandra Heep holds a unique position as the sole professor specializing in China. For several years, she has been leading the program “Applied Business Languages and International Business Management” with a focus on China, as well as overseeing the China Center on campus. Her expertise covers a […]
Robin Loeschel is the new manager of Crown Equipment’s truck projects in Suzhou. Loeschel most recently earned his MBA at Fudan University in Shanghai. Previously, he worked for Bosch in Germany as a project manager for automotive electrification.Khalil Hashmi is to become Pakistan’s new ambassador to China. He previously served as ambassador in Geneva and […]