When Johannes Lindner was 25 years old, he shook hands with Jacques Delors – the former President of the European Commission – for the first time. A photo of that moment hangs on the bulletin board in his office at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Lindner has been the co-director of the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie […]
Jia Guide will serve as the new Chinese ambassador to Italy. He most recently served in Beijing as head of the Legal Department at the Foreign Affairs Office. Jia is an experienced diplomat. As ambassador to Peru, he was responsible for the country’s accession to the Belt and Road Initiative. Isaac B. Kardon is the […]
Oman Ramon Serrano Oswald has already lived on many continents: As a child of Mexican-Swiss parents, he grew up in both Mexico and Germany and had to find his way in both worlds early on. While studying International Relations, he spent time in China, India, Brazil and Mexico. Today, he is a professor of International […]
Behind Mechthild Wörsdörfer lie a few very busy months. The top official is currently the most important German manager of the energy crisis in Brussels. As Deputy Director General of the Directorate-General for Energy, the Hesse native has been shuttling from meeting to meeting since February. Wörsdörfer explains the crisis policy and, together with her […]
Klaus Haas took up the post of Key Account Manager at AVL China in January. Headquartered in Graz, the mobility technology company operates subsidiaries in China in Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing, as well as a software center in Chengdu. Until December, Haas served as Sales Manager at AVL Germany in Ingolstadt and Munich. His new […]
Hubert Lee has been appointed head of the MX (Mobile eXperience) design team by Samsung. Lee previously served as Chief Design Officer at Mercedes-Benz China. Samsung’s MX design team is responsible for the development of Galaxy products such as the S series, the Z series, the Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy Watch.Is something changing in […]
Gudrun Wacker was already a China expert back when Taiwan was still a dictatorship. Much has changed since then. Authoritarian China threatens the small democracy of Taiwan. And as a Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Wacker has to try and predict how long this will continue. However, she does […]
Walburga Hemetsberger sees Europe as a pioneer in the energy transition and climate action. And the goal of defending this role – also when it comes to competitiveness. The urgency to expand renewables is just as clear to her as the competition “not only with China but also with the USA and India“. As CEO […]
Geng Wu has been Senior Vice President of Group Procurement at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg since October. Prior to this, he led a project to realign procurement.Rizvan Kahraman, a master’s student on his way to becoming a sales engineer at Ruhr Uni Bochum, works in China Business Management at Audi in Ingolstadt. Is something changing in […]
Elena Meyer-Clement learned Chinese during her school years. She traveled with school groups to Shanghai and Beijing. Meyer-Clement recalls finding the country and its people awful on her second visit. “The people saw us as strangers just as we saw them.” But that aversion did not last long; the then-student soon felt a connection to […]