Committees

Foreign Trade Committee

Chair:
Christian Diemer
Chair of the Advisory Board
at ALTENLOH, BRINCK & CO GmbH & Co. KG

Managing Director:
Cedric von der Hellen, BDI
T: 030 2028-1602
c.hellen@bdi.eu

Digital Committee

Co-Chair:
Eleftherios Papadopoulos
Spokesperson for the Management Board, Germany
Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG

Co-Chair:
Dr. Mirjam Storim
Head of Technology and Innovation Management
Siemens AG

Managing Director:
Dr. Michael Dose, BDI
T: 030 2025-1560
m.dose@bdi.eu

Energy and Climate Policy Committee

Chair:
Dr. Christopher W. Grünewald
Managing Partner
Grünewald Papier GmbH & Co. KG

Managing Director:
Dr. Carsten Rolle, BDI
T: 030 2028-1595
c.rolle@bdi.eu

Committee on Industrial Property Rights and Copyright

Chair:
Alissa Zeller
Senior Vice President, Global Regulatory and Intellectual Property Services
BASF SE

Managing Director:
Heiko Willems, BDI
T: +32 2792-1002
h.willems@bdi.eu

Committee on Industrial Health Care

Chair:
Christian O. Erbe
Managing Director
Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH

Executive Director:
Maria Kusmina, BDI
T: 030 2028-1505
m.kusmina@bdi.eu

Public Procurement Committee

Chair:
Thomas Echterhoff
Managing Partner
Echterhoff Baugruppe

Managing Director:
Anja Mundt, BDI
T: 030 2028-1512
a.mundt@bdi.eu

Legal Committee

Chair:
Dr. Claudia Junker
General
Counsel, Deutsche Telekom AG

Managing Director:
Heiko Willems, BDI
T: +32 2792-1002
h.willems@bdi.eu

Committee on Raw Materials Policy

Chair:
Herwart Wilms
Managing Director
REMONDIS Sustainable Services GmbH

Managing Director:
Anne Lauenroth, BDI
T: +49302028-1405
a.lauenroth@bdi.eu

Security Committee

Chair:
Thomas Gottschild
Managing
Director, MBDA Deutschland GmbH

Managing Director:
Kerstin Petretto, BDI
T: 030 2028-1710
k.petretto@bdi.eu

Tax Committee

Chair:
Prof. Dr. Christian Kaeser
Head of the Tax Department at Siemens AG
President of the German Association for International Tax Law

Managing Director:
Dr. Monika Wünnemann, BDI
T: 030 2028-1507
m.wuennemann@bdi.eu

Environment, Technology, and Sustainability Committee

Chair:
Hagen Trott
Head of Regulatory Affairs & Compliance
K+S Aktiengesellschaft

Executive Director:
Uta Maria Pfeiffer, BDI
T: 030 2028-1436
u.pfeiffer@bdi.eu

Corporate Finance and Financial Markets Committee

Chair:
Torsten Kohrs
Head of Group Treasury
Deutsche Lufthansa AG

Executive Director:
Klaus Günter Deutsch, BDI
T: 030 2028-1591
k.deutsch@bdi.eu

Transportation Committee

Chair:
Hildegard Müller
President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA)

Executive Director:
Uta Maria Pfeiffer, BDI
T: 030 2028-1436
u.pfeiffer@bdi.eu

Committee on Competition Policy

Chair:
Wolfgang Kopf, LL.M.
Head of Policy and Regulation
Deutsche Telekom AG

Executive Director:
Heiko Willems, BDI
T: +32 2792-1002
h.willems@bdi.eu

Education Committee

Joint Committee with the BDA
Chair:
Martin Seiler
Member of the Executive Board for Human Resources and Legal
Affairs, Deutsche Bahn AG

Contact at the BDI:
Dr. Thomas Koenen
T: 030 2028-1415
t.koenen@bdi.eu

Committee on Research, Innovation, and Technology Policy

Joint committee with the BDA
Chair:
Lars Reger
Chief Technology Officer
NXP Semiconductors

Executive Director:
Johanna Klein, BDI
T: 030 2028-1527
j.klein@bdi.eu

SME Committee

Joint committee with the BDA
Chair:
Dr. Hans-Toni Junius
Managing Partner
C. D. Wälzholz GmbH & Co. KG

Executive Director:
Anna-Lena Gleich, BDI
T: 030 2028-1479
a-l.gleich@bdi.eu