Prof. Dr. h.c. Horst Teltschik, Chairman, Teltschik Associates, Germany

Prof. Dr. h.c. Horst M. Teltschik is Chairman of Teltschik Associates. Following a career in government, where he has held numerous executive positions, he has been closely associated with BMW, incl. service as Member of the Board of Management of the BMW Group and as Representative of the Board of Management of BMW for Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Since 1999, he acted as Chairman of the Munich Conference on Security Policy. He also previously served as CEO of the Bertelsmann Foundation and subsequently was Vice President International Relations/ President of Boeing Germany. Holding a degree in political science, Prof. Dr. h.c. Teltschik received honorary degrees from the University of Budapest and Sogang University in Korea. Since 1996, he has lectured at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Technical University of Munich. He is active on various corporate supervisory and advisory boards, intergovernmental institutions and charitable organisations.