Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kluge

From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Jürgen Kluge was chairman, CEO and labor director at Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH in Duisburg, Germany. He became an independent consultant for Kluge & Partner in September 2012.

Prior to Haniel, Kluge spent 25 years with McKinsey & Company, Inc. in Düsseldorf. From 1999 to 2006, he managed the firm’s German and Austrian offices. He concentrated his efforts in the automotive, mechanical engineering, electronics, utilities, and telecommunications industries. Kluge was also a long-standing member of the Shareholder Council, the firm’s international executive committee.

Kluge is a Senior Advisor at Bank of America, operating out of Frankfurt and London, and Advisor and Member of the Global Advisory Council, Bank of America Corporation.

From 2013-2019 Kluge was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Schmitz Cargobull AG.

Kluge is a member of numerous advisory boards including Fastems Oy Ab, the Little Scientists Foundation, Foundation Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and the Hidden Champions Institute (HCI) of ESMT.

Kluge holds a Ph.D. in experimental physics and is honorary professor of mechanical engineering at Technical University Darmstadt in Germany. He is a member of the board of trustees of Ludwig- Maximilians-University in Munich and Deutsches Museum München, and is Honorary Consul of Finland for North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatine.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kluge is a member of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and as of January 2016 became the Chairman of the Board of the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.