State Secretary Dagmar Wöhrl MP Appointed New Member of the ZEW Supervisory Board

Dagmar Wöhrl, MP, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology, was appointed member of the supervisory board at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim.

Dagmar Wöhrl is political representative of the constituency Nuremberg North at the German Bundestag. Together with her colleagues from the supervisory board, she will use her expertise as entrepreneur and jurist to determine ZEW’s new strategic orientation. Wöhrl supersedes Rezzo Schlauch, Parliamentary State Secretary (ret.), who resigned from office in November 2005.

The other members of the ZEW Supervisory Board currently are: Gerhard Stratthaus (chairman), Minister of Finance of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Strube, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF Aktiengesellschaft; Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan, PhD, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) and University of Mannheim; Dr. Friedrich Bullinger, Ministerial Director at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs; Prof. Dr. Claus Eiselstein, Ministerial Director at the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Ministry; Wolfgang Fröhlich, Ministerial Director at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otto H. Jacobs, University of Mannheim; Prof. em. Dr. Egon Lorenz, University of Mannheim; Dr. Theo Spettmann, Spokesman of the Executive Board at Südzucker AG Mannheim/Ochsenfurt; Norbert Schmitt, Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Finance.

Contact

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