Dr. Anno Borkowsky
Head of the Rhein Chemie Business Unit
LANXESS AG


Dr. Anno Borkowsky is CEO and President of Rhein Chemie, a position he has held since June 2002.

Dr. Borkowsky began his career with Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH, Mannheim, Germany in February 1999 as Executive Vice President. He was soon promoted to Regional Manager Europe and Chief Technology Officer before accepting his current role as CEO and President.

Prior to his career at Rhein Chemie, Dr. Borkowsky joined Bayer AG in Leverkusen, Germany as Unit Manager. In September 1995, he transferred to Bayer Corp., in Orange, Texas, USA as Operations Manager.

Dr. Borkowsky earned his Biological Technical Assistant Degree in 1981. He went on to obtain a Master of Chemistry and Ph. D. in Chemistry from University of Cologne, Germany.

Dr. Werner Breuers
Member of the Board of Management
LANXESS AG


Dr. Werner Breuers was born in Moenchengladbach, Germany, on December 9, 1958. He studied Chemistry at Aachen Technical University, obtaining a doctorate in science. He began his career in 1989 as a chemist in the Research and Development Division of Hoechst AG in Frankfurt.

After holding a number of managerial positions at Hoechst AG, in 1999 Breuers became Vice President of Licensing & Catalysts of the Polyethylene Manufacturer Elenac GmbH in Kehl, Germany. One year later, Elenac GmbH became part of Basell Group. As a member of the Basell management team he was Head of the Global Technology Business Division based in Milan, Italy, and was subsequently President of Basell Polyolefins Europe based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

On May 14, 2007, Breuers was appointed to the Board of Management of LANXESS AG. His responsibilities and strategic areas of operations include the business segments Performance Polymers and Advanced Intermediates and the Procurement, Research & Development and Industrial & Environmental Affairs Group Functions.

Thomas Bubendorfer
Solo Climber


Thomas Bubendorfer is one of the world’s foremost solo climbers. There are only few men in the world who live up to this extreme challenge. Unlike conventional climbers, a free solo climber uses neither ropes nor any other protection. In overhanging rock and ice faces up to ten thousand feet high his life depends entirely on his dedication, focus, and his ability to think and make decisions under extreme pressure: the slightest mistake is lethal.

In 1983, at 21 years of age, Thomas joined the elite inner circle of solo climbers with a record climb of the highest and hardest face of the Alps - The Eiger North Face in Switzerland, a record unbroken to this day. Since that time he has been one of the dominating personalities of alpine solo climbing. Thomas Bubendorfer is a celebrity in Europe and has appeared on countless television shows. His life and his achievements as a climber have been portrayed in more than a dozen documentaries.

Dr. Ron Commander
Head of the LANXESS Butyl Rubber business unit
LANXESS AG


Dr. Ron Commander has served as Head of the LANXESS Group’s Butyl Rubber business unit since June 1, 2004.

Commander was born in Brisbane, Australia, on April 24, 1950. The Ph.D. chemical engineer was educated in the UK. He embarked on his professional career in 1975 working in research and development of processes for manufacturing methane rich gases. He then moved to Canada in 1982 working for Polysar Inc. of Sarnia, joining Bayer AG with its acquisition of Polysar in 1990.

Before becoming Head of the LANXESS Butyl Rubber business unit in 2004, Mr. Commander worked in research and development, production and technical service at Bayer’s former Rubber Business Group and in business development at Bayer Polymers Shanghai.

Deng Yali
Secretary-General of China Rubber Industry Association

Deng Yali graduated from Sichuan University in 1982, senior economist. Previously she has worked at the Rubber Department and Technology Supervision Department of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, and China Chemical Industry News. In 2000 she was transferred to China Rubber Industry Association, where she worked as editor-in-chief of “China Rubber” magazine, Deputy Secretary-General of the Association, Deputy Chairman and Secretary-General, Executive Deputy Chairman and Secretary-General.

Dr. Feng Fei
Director General and Researcher for
The Industrial Economic Research Department, Development Research Center Of The State Council


Dr. Feng holds a Doctorate from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University in the year of 1991.  

In November 1993, Feng served in the Technical-Economy Research Department at the Development Research Center of the State Council.  In 1997 he was appointed Director of the Technical-Economy Research Department. He was transferred in 1998 to the Industrial Economic Research Department and began serving as Director General and Researcher.

Focus areas for Feng’s research include industrial economics, economics of regulation and technical innovation.  He has been involved in national dispositions and major research projects organized by the Development Research Center. He has also been involved in assisting relevant government ministries in industry planning, including drafting reform proposals and policy design.  Feng is a holder of the National Outstanding Contributions award, issued by the State Council.

Ge Guorong
Deputy Manager of Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co.,Ltd

Mr.Ge graduated from National Broadcasting University with the major of Economy.  From 2002 to 2004, he studied in business administration at Zhejiang University. Since 1982, He has been worked for Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co.,Ltd. He took various roles including human resource management, organizational management and sales. In July of 2000, he was promoted as the deputy manager for the company and responsible for domestic sales, international trading, purchasing and logistic.

Dr. Joachim Grub
Head of the Performance Butadiene Rubber Products business unit
LANXESS AG


Dr. Grub studied chemistry at the Technical University RWTH Aachen, Germany, where he obtained a science doctorate after a dissertation at the ’Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung’ in Mühlheim/Ruhr. 

Dr. Grub Started his career in 1989 with EC Erdölchemie GmbH, the later BP Köln GmbH, in research and development, Joachim Grub held different top positions in the production, finally as Head of Manufacturing.

In 2002, Grub joined Bayer as Head of the Global Operations Polybutadiene and Butyl Rubber. Since July 2004 he has headed LANXESS’s Performance Butadiene Rubbers business unit.  Joachim Grub has headed LANXESS’s Performance Butadiene Rubbers business unit since July 2004.

Dr. Axel Claus Heitmann
Chairman of the Board of Management
LANXESS AG


Dr. Axel Claus Heitmann studied chemistry at Hamburg University and the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), obtaining a science doctorate in 1988. He joined Bayer in 1989 where he entered the post-graduate trainee program. Between 1989 and 1991 he held various positions in the Central Research Division, and in the Applications Development and Manufacturing sections of the Rubber Business Group. 

Following two years as a plant manager, he transferred to Bayer plc in the United Kingdom as Manager of the Rubber Business Group's Bromsgrove site. In 1996 Dr. Heitmann was appointed Head of Manufacturing and Technology at PolymerLatex.

From March 1999 to January 31, 2002, Dr. Heitmann was Head of the Wolff Walsrode Business Group. He was then appointed General Manager of the Rubber Business Group at Bayer AG. In July 2002, he became a member of the Executive Committee of Bayer MaterialScience.

On September 16, 2004, Dr. Axel Claus Heitmann was appointed Chairman of the Board of Management of LANXESS AG.

Li Shousheng
Executive Vice Chairman of China Petroleum & Chemical Industry Association (CPCIF)

Mr. Li Shousheng was born in March 1949. He graduated from the Management School of Xi’an Jiaotong University. Being a senior economist and MBA degree holder, he is now a visiting professor to Xi’an Jiaotong University and Beijing University of Chemical Technology.

Mr. Li Shousheng had served successively as Deputy Director-General of Shaanxi Petrochemical Industry Department, Director-General of the Policies, Laws and Regulations Department of the Ministry of Chemical Industry (MCI), Director-General of the Planning Department of MCI, Deputy Director-General of the Industrial Policies Department of the State Economic and Trade Commission (SETC), Deputy Director-General, Director-General of the General Affairs Department of SETC, Director-General of the Bureau of Performance Assessment of State Administration of State-owned Assets (SASAC), Director of the Bureau of In-house Logistics of SASAC and a Member of SASAC CPC Committee.

Mr. Li has been engaged in corporation management and macroeconomic performance analysis for a long time. He has led the establishment of the business performance evaluation system for state-owned companies and has very deep understanding of company and macroeconomic management. Mr. Li has published more than 200 articles and reports on national level journals and other publications.

Li Yongwu
Chairman of China Petroleum & Chemical Industry Federation

Mr. Li Yongwu graduated from Tsinghua University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry. He had worked in the Tianjin Municipal Government as Director of the Chemical Industry Bureau and Director of the Economic Commission. Then he moved to Beijing and served as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, and Director of the State Administration of the Petroleum and Chemical Industry. Afterwards, Mr. Li was appointed the Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau SAR. Now he is the Chairman of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation.

Mr. Li Yongwu was a member of the 10th Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Li Yunxia
Climber of China Mountaineering Association

Li Yunxia graduated from China University of Geosciences.  She is a climber of Alpine Adventure Division of China Mountaineering Association.  She has started climbing since 1998 and been entitled as the national referee for rock-climbing.  She won a lot of mountaineering competitions including the 8th in difficulty and the 7th in speed in National Rock-climbing Championship and the 4th in Mount Hua Natural Rock-climbing Elite Tournament. 

Martin Kraemer
Country Representative of LANXESS Greater China


Martin Kraemer studied economic sciences at Cologne University and obtained a masters degree in 1991.   In the same year, Kraemer joined Bayer with a position in the internal auditing department of Bayer Group. After three years at the headquarters, he relocated to Korea in 1994 as deputy managing director and head of administration of Bayer Korea Ltd. in Seoul. 

After his return to Germany Martin held various management positions in marketing, planning and controlling in the Bayer Chemical Division.  In 2003, Kraemer also was a member of the project team for the spin-off of LANXESS AG from Bayer. He was appointed head of the Treasury Group Function of LANXESS AG after its foundation in July 2004.

In April 2008, Martin Kraemer was appointed Chief Financial Officer of LANXESS Greater China.  In January 2009, he has been appointed as Country Representative of LANXESS Greater China.
 

Luis López-Remón
Head of the Rubber Chemicals business unit
LANXESS AG


Luis López-Remón was born in Guadalajara, Spain on September 27, 1957. He studied economics and completed his studies at the University of Wuppertal, graduating as an economist. He followed this up with postgraduate studies at the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) in France.

López-Remón began his career in 1984 at Pall Filtrationstechnik in Frankfurt, Germany. Between 1986 and 2003, he worked for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APCI), where he held top positions in sales and marketing in Germany and abroad. His final position was as General Sales and Business Manager at Air Products Polymers, a joint venture between Air Products and Wacker Chemie which he was instrumental in establishing and integrating.

In March 2003, López-Remón joined Bayer Chemicals as Head of Regional Coordination and was in charge of the two Board initiatives, Sales and Marketing Excellence. From January 2004 until the end of 2006, he headed LANXESS’ Textile Processing Chemicals business unit.

Since 2007, Luis López-Remón has been Head of the Rubber Chemicals business unit for LANXESS AG.

Dr. Rainier van Roessel
Member of the Board of Management
LANXESS AG

Dr. Rainier van Roessel studied business administration at the University of Cologne, obtaining his doctorate (rerum politicarum) in 1988. In the same year, he joined the Corporate Organization Department of Bayer AG as an internal advisor. In 1993, he became a strategy advisor in the Strategic Planning Department, where he helped to set up the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Unit. In 1997, van Roessel became Head of Strategic Marketing for Styrenics in the Plastics Business Group, and he was appointed Head of European Marketing for Polycarbonates in 2001. In the newly formed Bayer Polymers subgroup, he assumed responsibility for Global Operations Polyester/TPU/Films.

When LANXESS was established in 2004, he became Head of the Rubber Chemicals business unit, and in June 2006, he was appointed Managing Director of LANXESS N.V., in Antwerp, Belgium. 

On January 1, 2007, van Roessel was appointed to the Board of Management of LANXESS AG.

Dr. Michael Schaefer
German Ambassador in Beijing

Dr. Schaefer was Born in1949。He is the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the People’s Republic of China since August 2007.

After his law studies at Munich and Geneva, Dr. Schaefer earned a law degree at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich; he passed his Bar Examination in Law at Heidelberg where he also prepared for his doctorate at the Max-Planck-Institute for International Law. He has published numerous articles on political, human rights and other legal topics.

Prior to that, he was Political Director of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; Special Envoy for Southeast Europe; Head of the Western Balkans Task Force, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; Head, Political Department, Permanent UN Mission, Geneva; Head, Training for Senior Civil Servants, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; Permanent Representative, German Embassy, Singapore; Advisor, UN Permanent Mission, New York.

Professor Robert Hans Schuster
Member of the DIK Board

Professor Schuster was born in 1942 in Bucharest ，Romania. He graduated from Institute of Organic Chemistry, University "Al. J. Cuza" Yassy in 1967. From 1980 to 1984 he worked as a Researcher at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (Freiburg, Germany). He then took the position as the Head of the Department "Chemistry and Physics of elastomers" at the German Rubber Institute (DIK) from 1984 to 1992. In April 1996 he became the Professor at the University of Hanover. since 2010, Professor Schuster have become the Member of the DIK Board

Prefessor Schuster was awarded "Carl Harries" Award Medal from the German Rubber Society in 1998

Prefessor Schuster also published 3 Scientific books and delivered 555 Lectures.

Dr. Wang Feng
Vice Chairman of the board of Ling Long Group.Chairman of the board, General Manager and R&D center director of Shandong Ling Long Tires Co., Ltd.

Dr. Wang was born in 1972.  He received his master degree at Haerbin Industry University and now he is pursuing his doctorial degree at Beijing Communication University.  Currently he works as vice chairman of the board of Ling Long Group, meanwhile, he takes role of chairman of the board, general manager and R&D center director of Shandong Ling Long Tires Co., Ltd.

Dr. Guenther Weymans
Head of Technical Rubber Products business unit
LANXESS AG


Dr. Guenther Weymans has headed the LANXESS Technical Rubber Products business unit since January 2004.

Weymans was born in Sevelen, Germany, on September 25, 1957. He studied at the University of Bonn, where he obtained his doctorate in theoretical physics. Dr. Guenther Weymans began his career with Bayer AG in 1985. After five years as a project manager in polymer research, he served in various management positions in Leverkusen, Germany; Baytown, Texas, USA; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Key stations in his career include Manager of the Global Process Technology Group, Chief Engineer of the Polyurethanes Business Group in Texas, Global Chief Technology Officer of Polyurethanes and Head of the Bayer TDI business.

Guenther Weymans has headed the Technical Rubber Products business unit at LANXESS since the start of 2004. In addition, since the beginning of 2007 he has been head of Technical Services, which have been managed under the LANXESS subsidiary Aliseca since the start of July. Weymans is also responsible for the LANXESS Logistics & Supply Chain group function.

Professor Bernd Wiedemann,
Professor at the Berlin Institute of Technology

Dr. Bernd Wiedemann received a Master's degree from the Hannover Technical University, a doctorate from Brandenburg Technical University.  Wiedemann is a Professor at the Berlin Institute of Technology.  He served as Head of Commercial Vehicles for a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG until January 1, 2007.  He joined IAV after retiring from Volkswagen AG and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Truck Division in Wolfsburg, Germany. A 37-year employee of Volkswagen, Mr. Wiedemann held senior executive positions including Executive Vice President of Volkswagen, South America from 1994 to 1995; Executive Vice President of Autolatina from 1992 to 1994 and Director of Passenger Car and Commercial Vehicle Development from 1989 to 1992.

Wiedemann has been a Member of the Board of Managers at Delphi Automotive LLP since April 2010.
 

Professor Horst Wildemann
Professor at Technical University of Munich

Dr. Horst Wildemann studied mechanical engineering and business administration in Aachen and Cologne. In 1974, he graduated as a PhD in economics. In 1980 he qualified as a university lecturer (Dr. habil.) at the university in Cologne. Since 1980 he has been lecturing as a full professor for business administration in the universities of Bayreuth, Passau and since 1989 at the Technical University of Munich. In addition to teaching Prof. Wildemann is the executive of a consulting company for corporate planning and logistics with over 80 employees.

His practical experience supported the writing of 40 books and over 600 essays in which he shows new ways for the profitable creation of a successful company. Prof. Wildemann works as a consultant, as a member of the board of directors and as an advisory board member for leading industrial enterprises. He was awarded the “Staatsmedaille” of the Bavarian State and the federal Cross of Merit, first class, of the Federal Republic of Germany, doctor honoris causa of the university of Klagenfurt and Passau. Admission into Logistic Hall of Fame in 2004. Bayerischer Verdienstorden 2006.

Xu Chunhua
Vice chief of China Rubber Industry Association
Chief of CRIA Rubber Chemicals Sub-commission
Researcher


Xu graduated from Shanghai Fudan University, majoring in High Polymer.  She takes rich experience in the development and application research of rubber new materials, acting as the project leader of a number of national key scientific and technological projects including high performance radial tire and rubber auxiliary.  She won National Science and Technology Progress Second Prize, and published 50 plus scientific thesis. She used to be Deputy President of Beijing Research and Design Institute of Rubber Industry, currently takes role of Vice Chairman of China Rubber Industry Association, and Director-General of Rubber Chemicals Sub-commission.

Dr. Yang Yiyong
Director General and Researcher At The Research Institute for Social Development, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)


Dr. Yang Yiyong holds a doctoral degree from Renmin University of China and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Prior to his current position, he served as deputy director general and research at the Research Institute for Economics at NDRC.   At present, in addition to serving as director general and researcher, he is also a consultant on national technological development at the Ministry of Science and Technology and part-time professor for Renmin University of China, Liaoning University, Tsinghua University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and Beijing Normal University.

His research areas are macroeconomics and engineering consulting. 

The State Council has awarded Dr. Yang with special government allowance.

Yang Yudong
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of China Business News, Vice President of China Business News Research


Yang started his career as the journalist for Shanghai Stock Daily in 1993.  Currently, he is the Deputy Chief Editor for China Business News and Vice President of China Business News Research.  CNB research is one of the reputable think tanks in China.

Professor Zhang Liqun
Professor of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Changjiang Scholar of Ministry of Education, China, Head of Key Lab of Beijing City on Preparation and Processing of Novel Polymer Materials

Dr. Zhang Liqun received his PhD degree in 1995 from Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He researched as a Visiting Scholar at University of Akron in 1999-2000, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University in 2000-2001. He was appointed as a Cheung Kong Scholar of Ministry of Education, China in 2005 and got the Distinguished Youth Scientist Foundation from NSFC in 2007. Center of Advanced Elastomer Materials led by him holds the pioneer position in China rubber science and technology filed.

Currently, he is the Director of Key Lab. of Beijing City on Preparation and Processing of Novel Polymer Materials, and vice director of State Key Lab of Organic-Inorganic Composites. He published nearly 300 papers (over 160 international papers) and 8 joint books (chapters), and made over 40 invited lectures in international conferences and over 50 lectures in domestic conferences. He possesses 50 China Patents.