Yin Yong is the new Mayor of Beijing. The Harvard graduate has already held the office on an acting basis since October. He was previously Vice Mayor of the Chinese capital. Steffen Heeger is the new Chief Medical Officer at Shanghai-based radiopharma company Full-Life Technologies. Heeger previously held senior positions in oncology clinical development at […]
Wolfgang Hirn has started learning Chinese about twenty times – and stopped just as often. The journalist and book author has been traveling to China regularly since the 1980s and has written several bestsellers about the country and its continent. “Again and again, I resolve to keep my eye on the ball this time, but […]
Vera Langener took over the position as an analyst for Energy & Infrastructure in Asia & Europe at the German Investment and Development Company KfW DEG in January.Is something changing in your organization? Why not let us know at heads@table.media!
Matthias Stepan joins the Department of East Asian Politics at the Ruhr University Bochum as a research associate. Here, he is a member of the Horizon Europe project Dealing with a Resurgent China (DWARC) and takes over the scientific leadership of the research project Universities as Actors in Dialogue with China. He was previously head […]
The year 2022 was the year in which Sven Rösner received more attention than ever before. Like so many changes this year, this was due to the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine and the accompanying energy crisis in Europe. “Before, we were primarily dealing with individual units,” says Rösner: “Now, the German Chancellor’s Office […]
Michael Chiang will take over as the new head of the iPhone assembly segment at Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn. The new appointment is also a response to worker protests at the main iPhone manufacturing site in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Chiang, who has worked for Foxconn since 1999, played a crucial role in […]
Anna Cavazzini is passionate about climbing. Since she was elected to the European Parliament in 2019, she says her skill has deteriorated. She only makes it to the climbing gym two or three times a month. In the Parliament, however, the 40-year-old has climbed a long way: In 2020, she took over the chairmanship of […]
Stuart Foster becomes Managing Director for Asia Pacific at e-commerce logistics provider Ascendia. His office will be located in Singapore.Is something changing in your organization? Why not let us know at heads@table.media!
Florian Haider has been responsible for Customer Relationship Management China at Rolls Royce in Munich since January. In his new role, the political science graduate is responsible for implementing projects aimed at advancing the premium carmaker’s overall business strategy in the region. Stephan Muser has been Business Development Manager at SIMATIC PCS neo in Shanghai […]
“I really hate to apply somewhere,” Werner Patzelt said in an interview. “I like being invited.” His latest invitation takes the political scientist to Brussels – on behalf of Budapest. Here, Patzelt heads the Brussels office of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian think tank with close ties to the policies of Hungarian Prime […]