Supervisory Board

In accordance with the Statutes, the Supervisory Board of BASF SE comprises 12 members

The term of office of the Supervisory Board commenced following the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on May 2, 2014, in which the shareholder representatives on the Supervisory Board were elected. It terminates upon conclusion of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting that resolves on the discharge of members of the Supervisory Board for the fourth complete business year after the term of office commenced; this is the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on May 3, 2019. The Supervisory Board comprises the following members:

Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany*1

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

Former Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE (until May 2011)

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 2, 2014

Supervisory board memberships:

Fuchs Petrolub SE3 (chairman)

Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG4 (chairman)

Daimler AG3 (member)

Michael Diekmann, Munich, Germany1

Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Allianz SE

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 6, 2003

Supervisory board memberships:

Allianz SE3 (chairman)

Fresenius Management SE4 (member)

Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA3 (vice chairman)

Siemens AG3 (member)

Sinischa Horvat, Limburgerhof, Germany*2

Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

Chairman of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site; Chairman of BASF’s Joint Works Council and of the BASF Works Council Europe

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 12, 2017

Dame Alison Carnwath DBE, Exeter, England*1

Senior Advisor Evercore Partners

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 2, 2014

Comparable German and non-German supervisory bodies:

Zurich Insurance Group AG3 (independent, nonexecutive member of the Administrative Council)

Zürich Versicherungs-Gesellschaft AG4 (independent, nonexecutive member of the Administrative Council)

Land Securities Group plc3 (nonexecutive chairman of the Board of Directors until July 12, 2018)

BP plc3 (nonexecutive director since May 21, 2018)

PACCAR Inc.3 (independent member of the Board of Directors)

Coller Capital Ltd.4 (nonexecutive member of the Board of Directors)

Broadwell Capital Limited4 (nonexecutive member of the Board of Directors)

Prof. Dr. François Diederich, Dietikon, Switzerland1

Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 19, 1998

Tatjana Diether, Limburgerhof, Germany*2

Member of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site, and of the BASF Works Council Europe

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 4, 2018

Franz Fehrenbach, Stuttgart, Germany*1

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH

Member of the Supervisory Board since: January 14, 2008

Supervisory board memberships:

Robert Bosch GmbH4 (chairman)

Stihl AG3 (vice chairman)

Linde AG3 (second deputy chairman)

Comparable German and non-German supervisory bodies:

Stihl Holding AG & Co. KG4 (member of the Advisory Board)

Linde plc3 (member of the Board of Directors since December 22, 2018)

Waldemar Helber, Otterbach, Germany*2

Deputy Chairman of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site

Member of the Supervisory Board since: April 29, 2016

Anke Schäferkordt, Cologne, Germany*1

Member of the Executive Board of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA (until December 31, 2018)

Chief Executive Officer of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland GmbH (until December 31, 2018)

Member of the Supervisory Board since: December 17, 2010

Comparable German and non-German supervisory bodies:

Métropole Télévision S.A.3 (member of the Supervisory Board until December 31, 2018)

Denise Schellemans, Brecht, Belgium*2

Full-time trade union delegate

Member of the Supervisory Board since: January 14, 2008

Roland Strasser, Riedstadt, Germany*2

Regional Manager of the Rhineland-Palatinate/Saarland branch of IG BCE

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 4, 2018

Supervisory board memberships:

AbbVie Komplementär GmbH4 (member)

V & B Fliesen GmbH4 (member since September 1, 2018)

Michael Vassiliadis, Hannover, Germany*2

Chairman of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union

Member of the Supervisory Board since: August 1, 2004

Supervisory board memberships:

K+S Aktiengesellschaft3 (vice chairman until May 15, 2018)

Steag GmbH4 (member)

RAG AG3 (vice chairman)

RAG DSK AG4 (vice chairman)

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA3 (member since April 9, 2018)

The following members left the Supervisory Board on May 4, 2018

Ralf-Gerd Bastian, Neuhofen, Germany*2

Member of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site (until March 16, 2018)

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 6, 2003

Francesco Grioli, Ronnenberg, Germany*2

Member of the Executive Committee of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 2, 2014

Supervisory board memberships:

Gerresheimer AG3 (vice chairman)

Villeroy & Boch AG3 (member until March 23, 2018)

V & B Fliesen GmbH4 (member until May 31, 2018)

Continental AG3 (member since November 1, 2018)

* Classified by the Supervisory Board as an “independent” member of the Supervisory Board (see Competence Profile, Diversity Concept and Objectives for the Composition of the Supervisory Board for the criteria used to determine independence)

1 Shareholder representative

2 Employee representative

3 Publicly listed

4 Not publicly listed