Joe Kaeser

Joe Kaeser is Chairman of Daimler Truck, the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer with over 100,000 employees and a revenue of more than 50 billion euros, and Chairman of Siemens Energy, an energy technology manufacturer with more than 90,000 employees, and is widely considered one of the most successful and most renowned top executives of Europe.

Between 2013 and 2021 Mr. Kaeser was CEO and Chairman of the Managing Board of Siemens, a globally leading technology company with a revenue of more than 60 billion euros and over 300,000 employees worldwide. Previously, from 2006 to 2013, Mr. Kaeser was Chief Financial Officer of Siemens, after leading the financial department and holding the position of Chief Strategy Officer at Siemens. Mr. Kaeser began his career at Siemens in the components and semiconductors division, where he also worked in Malaysia and the USA.

Mr. Kaeser is, inter alia, member of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum and the Trilateral Commission and Head of the Advisory Councils of the Munich Security Conference. He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Mr. Kaeser studied business administrations at the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule in Regensburg.