Lars Placke, previously Co-Chairman of BH Sens, a joint venture between the Velbert-based automotive supplier Huf and the Chinese Baolong Group, is moving to Saargummi, also an automotive supplier, as its new CEO. Thomas Mueller has been appointed Executive Vice President for Future Powertrain at Berlin-based technology service provider IAV. He was previously Senior Vice […]
Lukas Kellner has been Senior Buyer at Mercedes-Benz China in Beijing since the beginning of the month. He previously held various positions at Mercedes in Germany. Yuan Du is the new Global IT Implementation Manager at DB Schenker. He was previously EDI Project Manager at Bahag Accounting.Is something changing in your organization? Let us know […]
When Patrick Koellner applied for a position as a scientific expert on Japanese domestic policy at the Institute of Asian Studies in 1995, he only intended to stay for two to three years. However, over 27 years later, the native of Hamburg is still active at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), […]
When classical music can be heard in the corridors of the European Parliament late at night, MEP Dennis Radtke is still in his office. There, the CDU politician has installed speakers that play Wagner, among other things, while he goes through files. Reconciling different things is part of everyday life for Radtke, who belongs to […]
Olaf Korzinovski has been Executive Vice President at Volkswagen China Investment since April. Based in Beijing, his responsibilities include logistics, components and quality assurance. Between 2014 and 2018, Korzinovski already served as technical manager for VW in Tianjin. Detlef Dumke has taken over as Head of Brand Product Line at the FAW-Volkswagen joint venture in […]
It is time next week: On April 19, the European Parliament (EP) will vote in plenary on the new crypto regulation (MiCA) in Europe. The responsible rapporteur in the EP is the German Stefan Berger, for whom the European push was absolutely overdue: “The capitalization of the crypto-asset market has more than tripled in the […]
Simon Heine has joined the Board of Directors at IAV Automotive Engineering, a US subsidiary of Berlin-based engineering services provider IAV. He is also Supervisor of IAV China in parallel. IAV works for Audi, among others.Rohit Jawa will become CEO of Unilever in India. He previously headed the Southeast Asia division at the British consumer […]
Duck sweet and sour as her favorite dish and the wish to be able to read the characters – that’s how Cora Jungbluth, Senior Expert for China and Asia Pacific at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, describes the humble beginnings of her interest in China. But they were enough. In 1999, Jungbluth enrolled for a master’s degree […]
Joerg Lunz has been Quality Training Coordinator and Consultant for Audi FAW since the beginning of March. Lunz has already been with the Ingolstadt-based automaker for 12 years in various positions. Robert Palmer is the new Principal Optical Researcher at Huawei Germany. He previously worked at EFFECT Photonics as Senior Transceiver Architect. Is something changing […]
When He Gang was accepted to study geography at the prestigious Peking University, he was working in construction. His father, a small farmer in Hunan province, had died two years earlier. So He Gang had to lend a hand to support the family. Originally, he did not know much about geography as a subject, says […]