Supervisory Board

In accordance with the Statutes, the Supervisory Board of BASF SE comprises 12 members

The term of office of the Supervisory Board commenced following the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on May 3, 2019, in which the shareholder representatives on the Supervisory Board were elected. It terminates upon conclusion of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting that resolves on the discharge of members of the Supervisory Board for the fourth complete business year after the term of office commenced; this is the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 25, 2024. The Supervisory Board comprises the following members:

Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany*1

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
Former Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE (until May 2011)

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 2, 2014

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany:
Fuchs Petrolub SE3 (chairman until May 7, 2019)
Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG4 (chairman)
Daimler AG3 (member)
Daimler Truck AG³ (member since September 24, 2019)

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

Franz Fehrenbach, Stuttgart, Germany1

Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH

Member of the Supervisory Board since: January 14, 2008

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany:
Robert Bosch GmbH4 (chairman)
Stihl AG3 (vice chairman)
Linde AG3 (second deputy chairman until April 8, 2019)

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises:
Stihl Holding AG & Co. KG4 (member of the Advisory Board)
Linde plc3 (member of the Board of Directors)

Sinischa Horvat, Limburgerhof, Germany*2

Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
Chairman of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site; Chairman of BASF’s Joint Works Council and of the BASF Works Council Europe

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 12, 2017

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: none

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell, Munich, Germany*1

Professor for Organic Chemistry at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 3, 2019

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: none

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

Dame Alison Carnwath DBE, Exeter, England*1

Senior Advisor Evercore Partners

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 2, 2014

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: none

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises:
Zurich Insurance Group AG3 (independent, non-executive member of the Board of Directors)
Zürich Versicherungs-Gesellschaft AG (subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group AG)4 (independent, non-executive member of the Board of Directors)
BP plc3 (non-executive director)
PACCAR Inc.3 (independent member of the Board of Directors)
Coller Capital Ltd.4 (non-executive member of the Board of Directors)
Broadwell Capital Limited4 (non-executive member of the Board of Directors)

Tatjana Diether, Limburgerhof, Germany*2

Member of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site, and of the BASF Works Council Europe

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 4, 2018

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: none

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

Waldemar Helber, Otterbach, Germany*2

Deputy Chairman of the Works Council of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Site

Member of the Supervisory Board since: April 29, 2016

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: none

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

Dr. Alexander C. Karp, Palo Alto, California*1

CEO Palantir Technologies Inc.

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 3, 2019

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany:
Axel Springer SE3 (member until December 31, 2019)

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises:
The Economist Newspaper Limited4 (non-executive director until November 28, 2019)

Anke Schäferkordt, Cologne, Germany*1

Member of the Supervisory Board

Member of the Supervisory Board since: December 17, 2010

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany:
Serviceplan Group Management SE,4 partner with unlimited liability of Serviceplan Group SE & Co. KG (member since July 1, 2019)

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises:
Wayfair Inc.3 (non-executive director since September 17, 2019)

Denise Schellemans, Brecht, Belgium*2

Full-time trade union delegate

Member of the Supervisory Board since: January 14, 2008

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: none

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

Roland Strasser, Riedstadt, Germany*2

Regional Manager of the Rhineland-Palatinate/Saarland branch of IG BCE

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 4, 2018

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany:
AbbVie Komplementär GmbH4 (member)
V & B Fliesen GmbH4 (member)

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

Michael Vassiliadis, Hannover, Germany*2

Chairman of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union

Member of the Supervisory Board since: August 1, 2004

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany:
Steag GmbH4 (member)
RAG Aktiengesellschaft3 (vice chairman)
RAG Deutsche Steinkohle Aktiengesellschaft,4 merged with RAG Aktiengesellschaft on April 23, 2019 (vice chairman)
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA3 (member)
Vivawest GmbH4 (member)

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

The following members left the Supervisory Board on May 3, 2019

Michael Diekmann, Munich, Germany1

Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Allianz SE

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 6, 2003

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany:
Allianz SE3 (chairman)
Fresenius Management SE4 (member)
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA3 (vice chairman)
Siemens AG3 (member)

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

Prof. Dr. François Diederich, Dietikon, Switzerland1

Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Member of the Supervisory Board since: May 19, 1998

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: none

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: none

* Classified by the Supervisory Board as an “independent” member of the Supervisory Board (see Competence Profile, Diversity Concept and Succession Planning for the Board of Executive Directors for the criteria used to determine independence)

1 Shareholder representative

2 Employee representative

3 Publicly listed

4 Not publicly listed