Staff News 03_2016

Thilo Wieland, former General Manager of Wintershall Libya, was appointed to the Board of Executive Directors at Wintershall Holding GmbH, Kassel/Germany, on 1st December 2015 and is responsible for Exploration & Production in Russia, North Africa and South America.

The German Industrial Association of Oil and Gas Producers (WEG), Hamburg/Germany, has elected a new Board of Management. Chairman of the Board and successor to Gernot Kalkoffen, who chose not to stand for re-election after 13 years in office, is Martin Bachmann, member of the Board of Executive Directors at Wintershall Holding GmbH. Thomas Rappuhn, Chairman of the Board of ...

Lars Kulik, Executive Board member at RWE Generation SE and RWE Power AG, has succeeded Joachim Geisler as Chairman of the Board at the VRB (German Raw Materials and Mining Association), Berlin/Germany.

Prof. Dr. Claudia Ernst became the first woman to take up a professorship at the Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola University (THGA), Bochum/Germany, in 200 years. She teaches Applied Material Sciences.

The future subsidiary (NewCo) of RWE AG, Essen/Germany, responsible for renewable energies, grids and sales in Germany and abroad, will have six board members: The CEO of RWE AG, Peter Terium, will hold the same position in the new subsidiary, with Bernhard Günther as CFO and Uwe Tigges as CHO and Labour Director. Hildegard Müller, former Chairwoman of the General ...

Monika Hausenblas, Executive Vice President Safety & Environment at Royal Dutch Shell, is the new Chair of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), Auderghem/Belgium. She succeeds John Chaplin, Production Vice President of Exxon Mobil, at the head of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers.

Isabelle Kocher is the new CEO of the French utility company ENGIE SA – formerly GDF Suez – in La Défense/France. She succeeds Gérard Mestrallet, who will remain Chairman of the ENGIE Board of Directors.

Prof. Ralph Wetzel is the new President of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials (BGR) in Hannover/Germany, succeeding Prof. Hans-Joachim Kümpel.