Committees

High-ranking corporate representatives with experience of working in or with Asian companies are active within the OAV in an honorary capacity, and shape the work within the network.


Chairman

Dr. Arnd Nenstiel
Senior Project Lead EU Green Deal,
Bayer AG, Crop Science Division, Monheim

Vice Chairman

Prof. Dr. Clas Neumann
Senior Vice President,
Head of Global SAP Labs Network, SAP SE,
Shanghai / VR China

Treasurer

C. Michael Illies
President & CEO,
C. ILLIES & Co. (GmbH & Co.) KG, Hamburg


Dr. Dirk Lorenz-Meyer
Member of the Board, Behn Meyer Holding AG,
Honorary Consul General of Singapur, Hamburg

Stefan Messer
Chairman of the Board
Messer Group GmbH,
Bad Soden

Dr. Philipp Meyer
Managing Director JFY (Member of the TRUMPF Group),
TRUMPF GmbH & Co. KG,
Ditzingen

Jens Rübbert
Managing Director & Regional Head Asia/Pacific,
LBBW - Landesbank Baden-Württemberg,
Singapore


Dirk Sänger
Managing Partner,
C. Melchers GmbH & Co. KG, Bremen

Dr. Michael Schleef
CEO,
HSBC Deutschland,
Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Stepken
Retired Chairman of the Board of TÜV SÜD AG,
Member of the Board, TÜV SÜD Foundation,
Munich

Dr. Sabine Stricker-Kellerer
Attorney/owner,
SSK Asia,
Munich


Dr. Christian Vollmer
Member of the brand board for production and logistics,
Volkswagen AG,
Wolfsburg


Board of Directors

The OAV Board of Directors is made up of high-profile representatives of Germany's business operations in Asia across many industries who discuss current issues relevant to the region, and corporate activity.

Members of the Board speak in their capacity as Chairpersons of the foreign trade associations and dictate the economic strategy in each individual country.

Advisory Council

In the Advisory Council, important institutional partners, including the managing director of the German Foreign Chamber of Commerce, act as representatives of OAV in the region.

All current members of the OAV Advisory Board can be found here.