With Bernd Pischetsrieder due to end his term as chairman of the Mercedes-Benz supervisory board early in 2024, Martin Brudermueller was approved as his nominated successor at a board meeting this week. An election will be held after the 2024 AGM.

Brudermueller has been board chairman at BASF since 2018, responsible for corporate legal, compliance & insurance, development, communications & government relations, human resources, investor relations and as ‘senior project net zero accelerator’.

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He began with BASF in 1988 and has also served as chief technology officer and headed the Asia-Pacific region, based in Hong Kong.

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