Prof Dr Heinz Riesenhuber

Chairman

Former Federal Minister of Research and Technology

Prof Dr Heinz Riesenhuber, 72, has been a Member of the Supervisory Board of Evotec since 1994 and its Chairman since 1997. From 1968 to 1982 he served as Managing Director for companies belonging to the Metallgesellschaft group. In 1976 he became a Member of the Federal German Parliament. From 1976 to 1982 he was a Member of the Bundestag Committee on Research and Technology and became Federal Minister for Research and Technology in 1982, a position he held until 1993. Since then he has been a Member of the Bundestag Committee on Economics. In 2006, he became President of the German Parliamentary Society.

Prof Riesenhuber has been Honorary Professor of the University of Frankfurt since 1995. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Kabel Deutschland GmbH as well as a Member of the Supervisory Boards of Altana AG, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, Henkel KGaA, VfW AG and Vodafone Deutschland GmbH. In addition, he is a Member of the Verwaltungsrat of HBM BioVentures AG. Among the numerous honours and awards bestowed on him are honorary doctorates from the Weizman Institute, Rehovot/Israel, Berg- und Hüttenakademie Krakau/Poland, University of Surrey/England and Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen/Germany, the German Federal Cross of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern), the Grand Officer de la Legion d'Honneur (France), and the Japanese Order of the Holy Treasure with Star and Shoulder Ribbon.