Thinkers of Chinese history always warned emperors and other rulers not to surround themselves with too clever advisors, especially those who could have their own ambitions. Xi’s top strategist Wang Huning is always very close to power but at the same time in the background – not someone who wants to be at the very […]
It is the link between the federal states, cities and municipalities, and Brussels: Representatives from local and state politics negotiate the European agenda in the Committee of the Regions. One of them is Matthias Wunderling-Weilbier. The 59-year-old is State Secretary in Lower Saxony’s Ministry for Federal and European Affairs and Regional Development. Since January, he […]
Thomas Fabian Derichs has taken over as Head of Sales and Market Development Engineering Asia at materials manufacturer Covestro. For his new duties, Derichs will move from the company’s headquarters in the German city of Leverkusen to Shanghai.Huang Zhenyu is the new General Manager of Xiaomi’s Auto Supply Chain Department. Huang is a veteran of […]
Johannes Pollak’s day-to-day work is stressful: “It helps to know that 99 percent of my work decisions are not life-and-death decisions,” says the 54-year-old. Pollak is rector at the private Webster University in Vienna. At the same time, he is chairman of the board of the Institute for European Politics in Berlin. His schedule is […]
George Chen joins The Asia Group (TAG) as new Managing Director for Hong Kong and Taiwan. Previously, Chen worked as Managing Director of Public Policy for China, Mongolia and Central Asia at Facebook parent company Meta.Is something changing in your organization? Let us know at heads@table.media!
EU institutions do not have a particularly good reputation when it comes to transparency: rigid procedures, opaque processes, hardly any insight. For almost ten years, Emily O’Reilly has been working to change that. As the European Ombudswoman, she holds EU institutions to account by investigating complaints from individuals, businesses and organizations about maladministration in EU […]
Martin Benninghoff will become the new China correspondent for the German business newspaper Handelsblatt at the end of the year. Previously, Benninghoff headed the politics section of the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau.Simina Mistreanu will be the new correspondent for the Greater China region at the Associated Press. She will report from Taipei.Is something changing in […]
An entire life in one book, more than 80 years. A girl whose feet were bound – feet that still hurt even as an adult woman, a forced marriage, dispossession and humiliation at the hands of the state. Shi Mei has written down this life, in her debut novel in German, “Tamarisk in der Wueste,” […]
Village life politicized Markus Gleichmann. At 14, he and his parents moved from Jena to the rural town of Eichenberg near Kahle, about 20 kilometers south. Poor mobility, fears for the future, social tensions, conflicts between left and right – there was plenty of material for debate in the rural area. In the small town, […]
Yijiang Zhang, Partner at BDO Germany, was promoted to Head of China Desk in April.Is something changing in your organization? Let us know at heads@table.media!