BASF Report 2022

Management and Supervisory Boards

Board of Executive Directors

There were six members on the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE as of December 31, 2022. On October 20, 2022, the Supervisory Board of BASF SE extended the appointment of Dr. Martin Brudermüller as BASF’s Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors until the end of the 2024 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting; Brudermüller’s appointment was originally scheduled to end in 2023. In addition, the Super­visory Board has appointed Dr. Dirk Elvermann as the new Chief Financial Officer and Chief Digital Officer within the framework of long-term succession planning. He succeeds Dr. Hans-Ulrich Engel, whose mandate ends at the closing of the 2023 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. In addition, some of the responsibilities within the Board departments of Saori Dubourg and Michael Heinz were reallocated effective March 1, 2022.

The composition of the Board of Executive Directors and the responsibilities of individual members are as follows:

 

Responsibilities (as of February 20, 2023)

First appointed

Term expires

Supervisory board mandates within the meaning of section 100(2) of the German Stock Corporation Act

Comparable German and non-German supervisory bodies

Dr. Martin Brudermüller

Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors

Degree: Chemistry, 61 years old

35 years at BASF

Corporate Legal, Compliance & Insurance;

Corporate Development;

Corporate Communications & Government Relations;

Corporate Human Resources;

Corporate Investor Relations;

Senior Project Net Zero Accelerator

2006

2024

Mercedes-Benz Group AGa (member of ther Supervisory Board)

Mercedes-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG group company)

(member of the Supervisory Board)

Dr. Hans-Ulrich Engel

Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors

Degree: Law, 63 years old

35 years at BASF

Corporate Finance;

Corporate Audit;

Corporate Taxes & Duties;

Global Business Services;

Global Digital Services;

Global Procurement

2008

2023

Wintershall Dea AG (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)b

Wintershall AG (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)b

Nord Stream AG (member of the Shareholders’ Committee)

Saori Dubourg

Degree: Business, 51 years old

26 years at BASF

Monomers; Performance Materials; Petrochemicals; Intermediates;

Europe

2017

2025

Wintershall Dea AG

(member of the Supervisory Board)b

_

Michael Heinz

Degree: MBA, 58 years old

39 years at BASF

Agricultural Solutions; Nutrition & Health; Care Chemicals;

North America; South America

2011

2024

Wintershall Dea AG

(member of the Supervisory Board)b

_

Dr. Markus Kamieth

Degree: Chemistry, 52 years old

24 years at BASF

Catalysts; Coatings; Dispersions & Resins; Performance Chemicals;

Greater China; South & East Asia, ASEAN & Australia/New Zealand;

Mega Projects Asia

2017

2025

_

Dr. Melanie Maas-Brunner

Degree: Chemistry, 54 years old

26 years at BASF

Corporate Environmental Protection, Health, Safety & Quality;

European Site & Verbund Management;

Global Engineering Services;

Group Research; BASF New Business

2021

2024

BASF Antwerpen NV

(Chairwoman of the Administrative Council)

a

Publicly listed

b

Internal membership within the meaning of section 100(2) sentence 2 of the German Stock Corporation Act

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 3, 2019, in which the shareholder representatives on the Supervisory Board were elected. In accordance with the applicable article of the Statutes as of the date of election, 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 April 25, 2024.

The Supervisory Board comprises the following members (as of February 20, 2023):

 

Member of the Supervisory Board since

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises

Dr. Kurt Bock, Heidelberg, Germany*1

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

Former Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE (until May 2018)

June 18, 2020

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft3 (member)

Fuchs Petrolub SE3 (until May 3, 2022) (chair)

Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Stuttgart, Germany*1

Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

Managing Partner, Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG (RBIK)

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH

April 29, 2022

Robert Bosch GmbH4 (chair)

Stadler Rail AG3 (independent, non-executive member of the Board of Directors since May 5, 2022)

Sinischa Horvat, Limburgerhof, Germany*2

Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

Chairman of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site, of the BASF Group Works Council, and of the BASF Works Council Europe

May 12, 2017

Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell, Munich, Germany*1

Professor of Organic Chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

May 3, 2019

Dame Alison Carnwath DBE, Exeter, England*1

Senior Advisor, Evercore Partners

May 2, 2014

Zurich Insurance Group AG3 (independent, non-executive member of the Board of Directors)

Zürich Versicherungs-Gesellschaft AG (Zurich Insurance Group AG group company)4 (independent, non-executive member of the Board of Directors)

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

Coller Capital Ltd.4 (non-executive member of the Board of Directors)

Broadwell Capital Limited4 (non-executive member of the Board of Directors until June 6, 2022)

Asda Group Limited4 (non-executive member of the Board of Directors)

EG Group Holdings Limited4 (non-executive member of the Board of Directors and chair of the audit committee)

Liming Chen, Beijing, China*1

World Economic Forum Greater China Chair

October 8, 2020

The following mandates each until July 1, 2022:

IBM China Investment Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)

IBM (China) Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)

IBM Global Services (DaLian) Company Limited4 (chair, intragroup membership)

IBM Solution and Services (ShenZhen) Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)

IBM Financing and Leasing Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)

IBM Factoring (China) Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)

Inspur Power Commercial Systems Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)

Tatjana Diether, Limburgerhof, Germany*2

Deputy Chairwoman of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site, and member of the BASF Works Council Europe

May 4, 2018

Alessandra Genco, Rome, Italy*1

Chief Financial Officer of Leonardo SpA

April 29, 2022

Elettronica SpA4 (controlled interest of Leonardo SpA)

André Matta, Großkarlbach, Germany*2

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

April 29, 2022

Natalie Mühlenfeld, Düsseldorf, Germany*2

District Manager of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union for the Düsseldorf district

April 29, 2022

3M Deutschland GmbH4 (member)

Axalta Coating Systems Germany GmbH & Co. KG4 (vice chair)

Michael Vassiliadis, Hannover, Germany2

Chairman of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union

August 1, 2004

Steag GmbH4 (member)

RAG Aktiengesellschaft4 (vice chair)

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA3 (member)

Vivawest GmbH4 (member)

Peter Zaman, Antwerp, Belgium*2

Deputy Secretary of the Works Council of BASF Antwerpen NV

April 29, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members of the Supervisory Board in the 2022 business year who stepped down from the Supervisory Board on April 29, 2022:

 

 

 

 

Franz Fehrenbach, Stuttgart, Germany1

Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH (until December 31, 2021)

January 14, 2008

Robert Bosch GmbH4 (chair until December 31, 2021)

Stihl AG (Stihl Holding AG & Co. KG group company)3 (vice chair)

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

Linde plc3 (member of the Board of Directors until March 1, 2022)

Waldemar Helber, Otterbach, Germany*2

Member of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site

April 29, 2016

Anke Schäferkordt, Berlin*1

Member of the Supervisory Board

December 17, 2010

Serviceplan Group Management SE4 (partner with unlimited liability of Serviceplan Group SE & Co. KG) (member)

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft3 (member)

Wayfair Inc.3 (non-executive director)

Denise Schellemans, Brecht, Belgium2

Full-time trade union delegate

January 14, 2008

Roland Strasser, Riedstadt, Germany*2

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

May 4, 2018

AbbVie Komplementär GmbH4 (member)

V & B Fliesen GmbH4 (member)

Villeroy & Boch AG3 (member)

*

Classified by the Supervisory Board as an “independent” member of the Supervisory Board (see the criteria used to determine independence)

1

Shareholder representative

2

Employee representative

3

Publicly listed

4

Not publicly listed

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