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. In accordance with the applicable article of the Statutes as of the date of election, 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 Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht, resigned his Supervisory Board mandate as of the conclusion of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on June 18, 2020. The Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on June 18, 2020, appointed Dr. Kurt Bock to the Supervisory Board as his successor, who was elected as the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board in the subsequent Supervisory Board meeting. The Supervisory Board member Dr. Alexander C. Karp resigned from the Supervisory Board at the end of the Supervisory Board meeting on July 22, 2020. The Ludwigshafen local court (Amtsgericht) appointed Liming Chen as a substitute member effective October 8, 2020. Accordingly, the Supervisory Board comprises the following members:

Dr. Kurt Bock, Heidelberg, Germany*1

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
Former Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE (until May 2018)

Member of the Supervisory Board since: June 18, 2020

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany:
Fuchs Petrolub SE3 (chair)
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft3 (member)

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 (chair)
Stihl AG3 (Stihl Holding AG & Co. KG group company) (vice chair)

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 (Zurich Insurance Group AG group company)4 (independent, non-executive member of the Board of Directors)
BP plc3 (non-executive director until January 15, 2021)
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)

Liming Chen, Beijing, China*1

Chairman of IBM Greater China Group

Member of the Supervisory Board since: October 8, 2020

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: none

Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises:
IBM China Investment Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)
IBM (China) Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)
IBM Global Services (DaLian) Company Limited4 (chair, intragroup membership)
IBM Solution and Services (ShenZhen) Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)
IBM Financing and Leasing Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)
IBM Factoring (China) Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)
Inspur Power Commercial Systems Company Ltd.4 (chair, intragroup membership)

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

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)
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft3 (member since May 14, 2020)

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

Denise Schellemans, Brecht, Belgium2

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, Germany2

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 chair)
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA3 (member)
Vivawest GmbH4 (member)

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

The following member left the Supervisory Board on June 18, 2020

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

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE (until June 18, 2020)
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:
Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG4 (chair)
Daimler AG3 (member)
Daimler Truck AG3 (member)

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

The following member left the Supervisory Board on July 22, 2020

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: 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 Objectives for the Composition of the Supervisory Board for the criteria used to determine independence)

1 Shareholder representative

2 Employee representative

3 Publicly listed

4 Not publicly listed