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Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz (Germany, Prof. Dr rer. pol.) has sat on the Board of Directors since 2018. He is a Professor of Economics at Saarland University and the University of Hamburg (specialising in institutional economics and governance) and Founding President of the HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration, where he has been an honorary senator since 2019.
From 1996 to 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, and from 2010 to 2018, President of the Working Committee of European Chamber Chief Executives. He was a long-serving member of the Supervisory Board of Hamburg Airport, Hamburg Exhibition Centre and the NDR Broadcasting Council, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of Hamburger Sparkasse.
He is Vice-Chair of the World Chamber Federation of the International Chamber of Commerce ICC, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hamburg Academic Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tafel foundation of Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein. Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz is an independent non-executive director.
