Formerly: Head of Corporate Communications International (last position)
Siemens AG, Munich, Germany


Current activities:

Lecturer on International Communications, International Management, and Intercultural Challenges at

• Ludwig-Maximilians University and Technical University, Munich
• Universities for Applied Sciences Konstanz and Hannover
• Visiting speaker at Georgia State University and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
• Visiting lecturer at Pennsylvania State University and Texas A&M

Background:

Studied microwave technology at University of Braunschweig, Germany

Joined Siemens Telecommunications Laboratories in 1965

• Development engineer for satellite communication systems

Joined Siemens Corporate Research Laboratories in 1970

• Assistant to the president of the Research Laboratories
• Head of Department for Software Basics of HLL Compilers

Joined Siemens Corporate Communications in 1980

• Head of Trade & Technical Press Department
• Head of PR operations of Siemens Groups
• Senior Director, International Communications
• Assignment to Siemens Corporation, Corporate Communications, Washington, DC, January 1993
• Head of Corporate Communications International with special responsibility for Asia and the Americas, June 1994

Retirement, December 2002