The Executive Board, Board of Trustees, and Management decide on the promotional programs of the Daimler and Benz Foundation and ensure that the Foundation’s mission is implemented.
Prof. Dr. Eckard Minx is an acknowledged expert on futurology, innovation management and organizational development. After studying economics and law, he became an assistant at the Institut für Volks- und Weltwirtschaft at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he remained from 1974 to 1979. In 1980, he joined the futurology research group “Society and Technology” at Daimler AG. From 1992 to 2008, he directed this department at both of its locations in Berlin and in Palo Alto, California. In addition to his other activities, Eckard Minx teaches as an honorary professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin (HTW Berlin) and at the Institute for Transportation Design at the Braunschweig University of Art. Since the spring of 2007, he has been a member of the Daimler and Benz Foundation's Executive Board, and in autumn 2008, he became the Board's president.
Prof. Dr. Lutz H. Gade holds a chair of inorganic chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. After defending his doctorate at the University of Cambridge, he worked towards a habilitation at the University of Würzburg which he completed in 1996. Two years later he moved to the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France) to take up a full professorship in inorganic chemistry and to become the Head of the Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis. Since moving to Heidelberg in 2003 he has acted inter alia as Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences and Chairman of the collaborative research centre (SFB 623) on molecular catalysis. Prof. Gade is currently the chairman of the collaborative research center (SFB 1249) on N-heteropolycycles as functional materials which he initiated. His work has gained him manifold recognition both nationally and internationally. He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.
Member of the Board of Management
Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development, Procurement and Supplier Quality
Daimler AG
Chairman of the General Works Council
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Daimler AG
Director, Institute for the Future of Industrial Society
Chair of Environmental and Energy Engineering, TU Clausthal
Managing Director
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
Scientific Executive Director
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
German Research Centre for Geosciences
Member of the Board of Management
Human Resources and Director of Labor Relations
Daimler AG
Head of Treasury
Daimler AG
of the Board of Trustees
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