Eggert Voscherau Appointed New Member of the ZEW Supervisory Board

Dr. h.c. Eggert Voscherau, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board at BASF AG, was appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim.

After many years at the ZEW Supervisory Board, his predecessor, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Juergen Strube resigned from his office in February 2007. Since January 2003, Voscherau has been a member of the ZEW's Scientific Advisory Board continuously accompanying and enriching the research at the institute with his constructive suggestions.

The other members of the ZEW Supervisory Board currently are: Gerhard Stratthaus (chairman), Minister of Finance of the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan, PhD, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) and University of Mannheim; Prof. Dr. Claus Eiselstein, Director, Ministry of State Baden-Wuerttemberg; Dr. Hans Freudenberg, Head of Ministry Department, Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs; Dr. Rainer Hägele,Head of Ministry Department, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg; Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otto H. Jacobs, University of Mannheim; Prof. em. Dr. Egon Lorenz, University of Mannheim; Norbert Schmitt, Head of Ministry Division, Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Finance; Dr. Theo Spettmann, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Südzucker AG Mannheim/Ochsenfurt; Dagmar Wöhrl, MdB, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

Contact

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