Dr. Dieter Zetsche
Chairman of the
Board of Management
Daimler AG
Stuttgart
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1953. Dieter Zetsche studied electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe from 1971 to 1976 and graduated as engineer. In 1982, he completed a Doctorate in Engineering at the University of Paderborn.
After his graduation, Dieter Zetsche joined the research department of the then Daimler-Benz AG and became Assistant to the Development Manager in the commercial vehicles business unit in 1981. Between 1984 and 1986, as part of the Daimler-Benz commercial vehicles management development team, he was responsible for the coordination of the international development activities. In the following years, he was promoted several times and assumed managerial positions in Latin America as well as in the United States of America, before returning to Germany in 1992, when he was appointed Deputy Member of the Mercedes-Benz AG Board of Management and Chief Engineer, Development Division in the Passenger Cars Business Unit. Three years later, he became a member of the Board of Management of Mercedes Benz AG with responsibility for the Sales Division and, in 1997, a member of the Board of Management of the Daimler-Benz AG, also with responsibility for the Sales Division. Since 1998, he has been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, then DaimlerChrysler AG. In 2000, he was named Chief Executive Officer and President of the Chrysler Group and five years later he became a member of the board of management of Mercedes Car Group, DaimlerChrysler AG. Currently, Dieter Zetsche holds the office of Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG. Furthermore, he is Head of the Mercedes-Benz Cars’ Division, which includes passenger cars of the brands Mercedes-Benz, Maybach and smart as well as Mercedes-Benz AMG and Mercedes-Benz McLaren.
38th St. Gallen Symposium
Keynote Address
All
Business is "Glocal" – The Future of the Automotive Industry
Friday,
16 May 2008, 08:55–09:35
Downloads
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