ZEW Supervisory Board – Ministerial Director Steinbach Takes Over as Chair from Minister Bauer

At its meeting today, the supervisory board of the ZEW Mannheim elected Ulrich Steinbach as its new chair. Steinbach is the successor of Theresia Bauer, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg, and has been Ministerial Director and head of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts since September 2016. Dr. Ralf Krieger, member of the executive board at Freudenberg SE, will continue to serve as vice-chair. 

Ulrich Steinbach studied political science, economics and sociology at the University of Stuttgart, and completed a postgraduate course at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. Before taking over as head of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, he worked, amongst other things, as vice-president of the Rhineland-Palatine Court of Auditors and as advisor to the OECD on public auditing. Today’s meeting also marked the last day of Minister of Science Theresia Bauer as chairwoman of the ZEW Supervisory Board, a position she assumed in 2012. ZEW President Professor Achim Wambach and the institute’s Director Thomas Kohl thanked the Minister for her long-standing commitment and dedication to the work conducted at ZEW. During her time as chairwoman of the supervisory board, she saw two changes in presidency as well as the expansion of ZEW’s research agenda with the aim of establishing the institute as a leading German and European competence centre for market and institutional design. She also placed particular emphasis on deepening the collaboration between ZEW and the University of Mannheim, which is, for instance, reflected in the two jointly organised Leibniz ScienceCampi “Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation” (MaCCI) and “MannheimTaxation”.

Further members of the ZEW Supervisory Board are Professor Claus Eiselstein, Head of Section at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of State; Michael Kleiner, Ministerial Director at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing; Dr. Gitte Neubauer, managing director of Cellzome GmbH; Professor Ingrid Ott, chair holder in economic policy at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT); Barbara Sinner-Bartels, Head of Section at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Finance; Dr. Philipp Steinberg, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs; Gerhard Stratthaus, former minister; Professor Thomas Puhl, University of Mannheim; Professor Peter Winker, Giessen University.