Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Finance Appoints General Director Klaus Tappeser to ZEW Supervisory Board

Klaus Tappeser, General Director at Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts, was appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim. His predecessor, Dr. Dietrich Birk, State Secretary at Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts, resigned from his office at the end of January 2010. Dr. Heribert Knorr, Head of Section at Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts, was appointed Mr Tappeser’s deputy in the ZEW Supervisory Board.

The 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-Universität (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 Dagmar Wöhrl MdB, Secretary of State, ret.

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