WHO WE ARE AND WHAT CONNECTS US
Who we are...
The TUM Speakers Series is an independent, non-profit, student-run event series that plans and organizes events regarding topics that are relevant for students since 1999.
What we do...
Our goal is to offer students the opportunity to gain insights from the working world and the careers of public figures, i.e. leaders and shapers. This should give them the best possible impulses for their own professional and personal development.
How we work...
Speakers enjoy the freedom to speak freely in front of students. This gives them the opportunity to also share very personal opinions. Companies find direct contact to potential young professionals and have the chance to find out what is currently moving our generation.
OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM
Yannik Kaiser
President
TUM Speakers SeriesBenedikt Ströbl
President
TUM Speakers SeriesModeration
Silja Wöhrle
Head of Moderation
TUM Speakers SeriesExternal
Marvin von Hagen
Head of External
TUM Speakers Series„Our motivation as a recognized student initiative of the TUM School of Management is to gain practical experience as a team in project management and in taking on responsibility . We see ourselves as providing additional training in addition to the theory from lectures, which prepares committed students for working life and positions in management levels. At every event we strive for excellence in planning and execution. We are a reliable partner for contacts from industry, students and employees of the Technical University of Munich. In order to continuously improve ourselves, every event is critically evaluated and feedback from partners and students is taken seriously."
HISTORY
The TUM Speakers Series was launched in 1999 and was initially organised by MBA students. Gradually, it opened up to all students of the Technical University of Munich and other universities in Munich and can look back on over 70 successful events. These are not only about economic topics, but also about society, politics and science; in short: all questions that are important in an academic environment.
The Patron
Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann
Born in 1968, Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann studied food chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received his doctorate (1995) and habilitation (1998) at the Technical University of Munich. In 1998 he was appointed Deputy Director of the German Research Institute for Food Chemistry, a member of the Leibniz Association. Prof. Hofmann followed a call from the University of Münster as Professor and Director of the Institute of Food Chemistry (2002) and returned to TUM in 2007 as Full Professor of the newly founded Chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensor Technology.
From 2009 to 2019 he was Vice President for Research and Innovation, since 2019 he is President of TUM.
OUR ADVISORY BOARD
Advice
Network
Experience
The TUM Speakers Series advisory board helps us to maintain and continuously improve the high quality of our events. It supports our team in an advisory capacity, with a large network and practical experience in the academic and business world.
Hans-Jürgen Jakobs
Hans-Jürgen Jakobs, born in 1956, is an economist and one of Germany's renowned business journalists. He worked for the "Spiegel", among others, and was head of the online edition and the business editorial department of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". Since 2013 he has held various positions at the Handelsblatt publishing group, until 2015 he was editor-in-chief of the "Handelsblatt" and now senior editor. Most recently, he wrote the highly acclaimed book "Whom does the world belong to? The balance of power in global capitalism". In autumn 2016 he moderated an event on the future of Europe as part of the TUM Speakers Series.
Robert Flaechsig
As a result of his work as Director-Automotive in Saudi Arabia's Industrial Development Programme (NICDP) for the planning and expansion of the downstream and supply chain industries with the oil multinational SAUDI ARAMCO, the chemicals group SABIC and its steel division as well as the aluminium division of the mining group MA'ADEN, Robert Flaechsig was appointed to the management team of SHA Prince Abdul-Elah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud in 2009. Since then, he has been an economic advisor in this committee and is involved in accelerating the implementation of the national industrial strategy and accompanying the Vision 2030 for growth, transformation and digitalization in the Saudi economy. Active in the advisory board of the German-Arab Friendship Society (DAFG) he held the keynote speech at the symposium "Transformation of the Global Energy Markets" of the TUM Speakers Series in 2015.
Prof. Gunther Friedl
Gunther Friedl is Professor of Business Administration and holder of the Chair of Controlling as well as Dean of the TUM School of Management at the Technical University of Munich. His research interests are in the areas of corporate governance and executive compensation, performance measurement and business valuation. Research and teaching stays took him to Stanford University and the Warsaw School of Economics. His studies on executive compensation are regularly featured in Handelsblatt, Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Huffington Post, ARD and ZDF.
Klaus Martin Hecht
Klaus Martin Hecht is an entrepreneur from Munich who, after graduating from the TUM, set up his own consulting company in the IT sector. He has specialized in IT security solutions for the protection of intellectual property. He is a well-known and internationally respected expert in his field who has established data leakage prevention for IBM and the Ferrari Formula 1 racing team, among others.
As part of the TUM SPEAKERS SERIES, he gave a lecture in October 2015 and since then he has been supporting as an advisor.
Hendrik Loven
Born in 1980, he has worked for ARD and BRD since 2007. Initially he worked as a radio and television reporter, later as an editor for the ARD political magazine Report Munich. He has received numerous awards such as the Georg Schreiber Prize in 2010, the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists and was nominated for the CNN Journalist Award 2015. Political topics - above all the EU, environmental, economic, energy and consumer policy as well as the topic of lobbying occupy the trained political scientist.
On June 1, 2015, he moderated our symposium on "Transformation of the Global Energy Markets".
Bénédicte de Peretti
During her career, Bénédicte de Peretti has worked at the economic interface between France and Germany. She worked in Munich for 20 years as a Germany correspondent for the business newspaper "La Tribune" and for the trade magazine "Journal du Textile". In 2008 she changed to communications consulting, followed five years later by the founding of B2P Communications Consulting with offices in Berlin, Munich and Paris. The consultancy specializes in strategic communications between companies in Germany and France.
She advises the TUM Speakers Series and gives important impulses for the organisation of the lectures.
Georg VI. Schneider
Georg Schneider has managed the Schneider Weisse brewery in Kelheim since 2000. Since 1872 the Weisses Bräuhaus G. Schneider & Sohn GmbH has been managed by the male line Georg. The core product is still the Schneider Weisse Original, which is brewed unchanged according to the original recipe of the brewery founder Georg Schneider I. in the oldest wheat beer brewery in Bavaria. A total of six wheat beer specialities are successfully positioned in Bavaria, Germany and 27 countries worldwide.
In 2014 he gave a lecture as part of the TUM Speakers Series on the topic "Export of Bavarian beer culture from a medium-sized perspective - Bavaria in the world".
Dr. Helmut Schönenberger
Inspiring people for entrepreneurship and innovation - this has been Dr. Helmut Schönenberger's goal since 2002 as co-founder and managing director of UnternehmerTUM. While studying economics at TUM, the aerospace engineer founded a consulting company with fellow students and developed a strategic concept for the university management to strengthen the university's start-up culture - the starting point for UnternehmerTUM. Helmut Schönenberger was instrumental in designing the services for founders, scientists and companies at UnternehmerTUM.
He was the first chairman of the TUM Business Club and one of the founders of the TUM Speakers Series.
OUR STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD
