2002 – 2011

Executive Director, Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), Brussels, representing the interests of 62 European railway companies and network operators

2000 – 2002

Managing Director, Ludewig Consulting / consulting for IVG Immobilien AG

1997 – 1999

CEO, Deutsche Bahn AG

1995 – 1997

State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and Federal Commissioner for the newly formed German states

Representative of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy on the Board of Directors of the Bundesanstalt für vereinigungsbedingte Sonderaufgaben (Federal Agency for Special Tasks Related to Reunification)

1983 – 1994

Head of the Business and Financial Policy department and coordination of the new German states, Federal Chancellery

1975 – 1983

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, energy, business and economic policy

Education

1967 – 1975

Economic studies at the University of Hamburg, Stanford University and the Ècole nationale d`administration in Paris

1973

Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) on “Principles for Simulation Models of Entire Companies”

1972

Master of Science, Stanford University

1971

Ècole Nationale d`Administration (ENA) in Paris

Positions held on statutory supervisory boards

None

Membership in comparable domestic or foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises

None

Overview of significant activities in addition to the Supervisory Board mandate

Chairman of the National Standards Control Council in the Federal Chancellery