Martin Brudermüller
 Martin Brudermüller    (businessman) | |
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| Born | 1961 Stuttgart |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Karlsruhe, University of California (Berkeley) |
| Member of | European Round Table of Industrialists |
German Bilderberger businessman, WEF AGM habit, CEO of BASF since 2018. Predicted EU ban on Russian gas imports would destroy the German economy. | |
Martin Brudermüller is a German businessman, and the Chairman of the Big Chemical corporation BASF since 2018.
He attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting. These meetings allow for debate within a narrow window of permitted opinion. After the Russian-Ukrainian war started for full in 2022, Brudermüller strongly opposed a proposed EU ban on Russian gas imports. Brudermüller said it would destroy the German economy.[1] His opinion might be seen as being within this window, although decidedly a minority view among the generally hardline participants.
Early life
Brudermüller was born in Stuttgart in 1961]. He earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1985 and 1987 respectively.[2] He did postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, US.[2]
Career
Brudermüller joined BASF in 1988, and has stayed with the company his entire career. Since 2006 he is member of the Board of Executive Directors/ In 2011, Brudermüller became Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE and since 2015 also Chief Technology Officer. In 2018 he became chairman of the board of executive directors and chief technology officer (CTO)[2].
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2023 | 18 May 2023 | 21 May 2023 | Portugal Lisbon Pestana Palace Hotel | The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2017 | 17 January 2017 | 20 January 2017 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
