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On 1st January 2016 Dirk Klingen became Managing Director of the STEAG New Energies GmbH, Saarbrücken. He follows to Stephan Nahrath, who changed to Westfalen Weser Energy GmbH & Co. KG in Paderborn/Germany at the end of 2015.

Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Wodopia became Managing Director of the Association of Coal Importers (VDKI), Hamburg, on 1st January 2016. He therefore succeeds lawyer Dr. Erich Schmitz, who has retired.

Annette Loske, Managing Director of the Association of the Energy and Power Industry (VIK) e. V., Essen, has left the organization at the end of 2015. Barbara Minderjahn, who has been a member of the board too, will lead the association for the time being.

Wintershall Holding GmbH, based in Kassel, has expanded its Board of Management and also appointed Thilo Wieland from the Department of Exploration & Production in Russia, North Africa and South America to the Supervisory Board.

Wolfgang Eder, Chairman of the Board at voestalpine AG in Linz (Austria), was re-elected Head of the World Steel Association at its annual conference in October 2015 in Chicago. Also voted into the Board of Management of the World Steel Association were John Ferriola, CEO and President of the Nucor Corp. in Charlotte (North Carolina/USA) and Eiji Hayashida, President and ...

As the successor to Ulrich Benterbusch, who has returned to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Kristina Haverkamp has become Managing Director of the German Energy Agency (dena), in Berlin.

On 15th November 2015, Guido Knott, who had been Division Manager for Policy and Communication at E.ON SE in Dusseldorf since 2010, became a member of the management board of E.ON Kernkraft GmbH in Hanover, a company that will operate under the name PreussenElektra in the future. On 1st January 2016, he will take over as Chairman of the Management ...

The South Korean scientist Hoe Sung Lee has been voted in as the successor to Rajendra Pachauri (an Indian national) as head of the United Nations’ (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in New York.

On 30th September 2015, Arnold Gehlen retired from the Management Board of RAG Mining Solutions GmbH in Herne.

At the end of 2015, Dr Andreas Merchiers will retire from the Management Board of Schalker Eisenhütte Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Bochum and, on 1st January 2016, he will take office as a professor at the TFH Georg Agricola University of Applied Siences in Bochum. His successor at Schalker Eisenhütte will be Karl-Heinz Rieser, who will simultaneously serve as Managing Director ...