“I soldered together my first modem when I was twelve years old,” says Klaus Landefeld cheerfully. “That was particularly unusual in 1980, the pre-Internet era.” At 16, the tinkerer turned his hobby into a profession and later studied electrical engineering. Landefeld is still an entrepreneur. But since 1997, he has also been involved in the […]
Mark Czelnik joined Cariad, Volkswagen’s automotive software division, as Head of ICAS, Platform and HMI China in October. Based on regional customer requirements, Czelnik will be responsible for research, pre-development, concept development and series development of Cariad software from Beijing.Sefa Yildiz joined IT consulting firm Bulheller in Beijing in September to head the Smart Logistics […]
Until the end of February, Leslie Schübel was still living in Moscow, where she had just finished her German-Russian double master’s degree. Last September, the program’s new students were personally welcomed by the Russian foreign minister. “On February 24, I woke up and saw: Bombs over Kyiv. And I don’t know if anything has ever […]
Xu Shouben and Wang Weidong have been appointed as new vice presidents of the China Development Bank (CBD). The CDB is the country’s largest policy lender. Xu previously served as vice president of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd, and Wang worked as president of CDB’s Jiangsu branch.Is something changing in your organization? Why […]
“The transformation is not only about changing societies, but also about breaking down thought structures in law,” says Thorsten Müller. He is Chairman of the Stiftung Umweltenergierecht (Environmental Energy Law Foundation), which he established in 2011. The scientists at the Würzburg-based foundation are looking into needed changes in the legal framework to achieve energy and […]
The Communist Party Congress is always a time for extensive personnel shuffles, including in state organs. Thus, during the meeting, the State Council announced several new appointments in leading positions:Tang Wenhong has been appointed Deputy Head of the China International Development Cooperation Agency. The agency formulates strategic guidelines, plans and policies for the country’s foreign […]
When Xi Jinping came to power in 2013, he was at first the “Man of Peng Liyuan” for many Chinese. After all, Peng was already a star in China when Xi was still climbing the provincial ladder. “Her singing is known in all the towns and villages of the motherland, her art deeply rooted in […]
A resilient digital ecosystem in which social and democratic issues are constantly taken into account – this is what Carla Hustedt, Director of the Centre for Digital Society at Stiftung Mercator, is working for. A fundamental part of this is looking at power structures and the distribution of knowledge: “At the moment, one of the […]
Xuan Changneng has been appointed Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the Chinese central bank’s website announced Thursday. Born in 1967, Xuan had previously been Deputy Head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.Peter Gierl has been Technology Manager at BASF China since September. Based in Shanghai, he will support the German […]
The Tiroler Lech Nature Park led the Austrian Andreas Baumüller to Brussels. He calls it the first great success of his career that his involvement prevented a hydroelectric power plant in the 1990s. In 2000, the Tiroler Lech became part of the Natura 2000 network of protected areas.That was the first contact the forestry graduate […]