ZEW Supervisory Board Decides to Enter into Negotiations Concerning the Succession of the Current ZEW President

Gerhard Stratthaus MdL, chairman of the ZEW Supervisory Board, informs that the ZEW Supervisory Board has decided at a meeting on 18 November 2011, to enter into negotiations with Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest (Oxford University) concerning the succession of the current ZEW President Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Franz.

Wolfgang Franz will retire and leave his post as ZEW President by the end of February 2013.

For further information please contact

Thomas Kohl, Phone +49 621/1235-111, E-mail kohl@zew.de