About the speaker
Prof Henning Kagermann Dr. rer.nat. Dr.-Ing. E.h. - President of the National Academy of Science and Engineering.
Henning Kagermann is Presidents of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering – having wide academic and industrial experience for more than 30 years.
He is a member of the senates of Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and is an honorary senator of the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance.
Professor Kagermann holds several national and international chairman positions, including:
EIT ICT Labs, i.e. European Institute of Innovation & Technology, the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT),
since 2010 for the “Innovation Dialogue” between government, industry and science in Germany - a dialogue board for advising the Federal Government on research and innovation policy for the National Platform for Electromobility - a partnership between car makers, industry providers, technical organisations and research associations in Germany aiming to promote electric mobility.
He is also a member of the Commission of the German Corporate Governance Code aiming to make Germany’s corporate governance rules transparent for both national and international investors.
Professor Kagermann received his diploma in Experimental Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He holds a doctorate and postdoctorate degree in Theoretical Physics from the Technische Universität Braunschweig, and was promoted to professor there in 1985. He lectured in physics and computer science at TU Braunschweig and University of Mannheim from 1980-1992. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Magdeburg and is a trustee of the Technische Universität München.
Between 1998 and 2009 he was co-chairman and chairman of the SAP Executive Board having been a member of the board since 1991.
He is currently a member of the supervisory boards of BMW AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Post AG, Munich RE, Nokia Corporation and Wipro Technologies.
About the event
This is the concluding lecture in the Intel Lecture Series on Engineering Research and Innovation. The Irish Academy of Engineering is honoured to welcome Prof Kagermann to Dublin to give this address.
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