It consists exclusively of alumni

The Advisory Board, which was founded in May 2019 and consists exclusively of alumni of the Faculty, advises the Faculty of Business and Economics on questions of cooperation between the Faculty and business as well as on other strategic issues. The committee meets once a year.

Back row (f.l.t.r.): Christian Schenk, Irmtraut Gürkan, Martin Zielke, Stefan Dierkes (Dean of Study), Carsten Wundrack, Hagen Duenbostel, Melanie Bockemühl, Michael Wolff (Alumni Commissioner), Muhamad Said Chahrour
Front row (f.l.t.r.): Heinz-Walter Große, Kathrin Dahnke, Michelle Lang (Assistant of Michael Wolff)
(The photo was taken during the meeting on 29 June 2022.)

The Advisory Board consists of the following members (in alphabetical order/ updated 2022):

• Prof. Dr. Salvatore Barbaro, Professor of Economic Policy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and former State Secretary in the Ministry of Science, Continuing Education and Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz


• Dr. Melanie Bockemühl, Investor, Strategic Advisor, Interim CEO, River22 Invest GmbH, Düsseldorf


• Muhamad Said Chahrour, Managing Director, GGW Group GmbH, Hamburg


• Kathrin Dahnke, Independent management consultant and multi-supervisory board member (B.Braun SE, Knorr-Bremse AG, Jungheinrich AG)


• Dr. Hagen Duenbostel, Spokesman of the Executive Board, KWS SAAT SE, Einbeck


• Nicolaus Fehling, Director Marketing & Sales, Hardenberg-Wilthen AG, Nörten-Hardenberg


• Henning Gebhardt, Independent Consultant for Capital Market Issues at GAPS, Bad Homburg


• Prof. Dr. Heinz-Walter Große, former CEO of B. Braun Melsungen AG (2011-2019) and currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Baunataler Diakonie Kassel


• Irmtraut Gürkan, Deputy Chairperson of the Charité Supervisory Board, Member of the Foundation Council of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Deputy Chairperson of the Foundation Council of the University Medical Center (UMG) Göttingen


• Dr. Björn Hinderlich, Senior Principal, Rewards & Leadership, Mercer, Frankfurt am Main


• Petra Scharner-Wolff, Group Executive Board Member Finance, Controlling, and Human Resources, Otto Group, Hamburg


• Christian Schenk, Chief Financial Officer SKODA AUTO a.s., Mladá Boleslav/ Czech Republic


• Heinz-Gerhard Wente, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Salzgitter AG, Salzgitter


• Dr. Carsten Wundrack, Partner, Egon Zehnder, Hamburg


• Martin Zielke, former Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank AG (2016-2020), Frankfurt am Main