Dr. Ralf Krieger Appointed New Member of ZEW Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board of the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) has a new member: Dr. Ralf Krieger (51), management board member at Freudenberg SE, has been appointed by Dr. Nils Schmid MdL, Minister of Finance and Economics of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg. He is the successor of Dr. h.c. Eggert Voscherau, former chairman of the BASF SE Advisory Board, who had been member of the ZEW Supervisory Board since March 2007.

Ralf Krieger studied Business Administration at the University of Mannheim and has already been member of the ZEW Sponsors' Association's board since December 2013.

Further members of the ZEW Supervisory Board are: Theresia Bauer MdL (chairwoman), Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg, Prof. Claus Eiselstein, Director, Baden-Württemberg Ministry of State, Prof. em. Otto H. Jacobs, University of Mannheim, Dr Gitte Neubauer, Cellzome GmbH, Prof. Ingrid Ott, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), Götz-Markus Schäfer, Head of Ministry Division, Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Finance and Economics, Gerhard Stratthaus MdL, former Finance Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Prof. Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, President of the University of Mannheim, Dr. Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

For more information please contact

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