Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Finance Appoints Secretary of State Ernst Burgbacher to ZEW Supervisory Board

Ernst Burgbacher, Secretary of State at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology was appointed to the Supervisory Board at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim. He succeeds Ms. Dagmar Wöhrl, Secretary of State, ret., resigned from the ZEW Supervisory Board. Dr. Alexander Groß, head of department at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, was appointed Mr. Burgbacher’s deputy.

Other members of the ZEW Supervisory Board currently are: Gerhard Stratthaus, MdL, Minister, ret., Financial Market Stabilization Agency (SoFFin), (Chairman), Dr. h.c. Eggert Voscherau (Vice-Chairman), President of the National Employers Association Chemistry, Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan, Ph.D. 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, Prof. Dietmar Harhof, Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otto H. Jacobs, University of Mannheim, Dr. Gisela Meister-Scheufelen, Head of Ministry Department, Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Finance, Dr. Theo Spettmann, Company Spokesperson, ret., of Südzucker AG Mannheim/Ochsenfurt and Klaus Trappeser, Head of Ministry Department, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg.

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Thomas Kohl, Phone: +49 (0)621/1235-111, E-Mail: kohl@zew.de