Hagen Duenbostel

Dr Hagen Duenbostel is a member of both the Hero Finance & Audit Committee and a guest at the Human Resources Committee. He is currently CEO and Executive Board Member of KWS Saat SE, a provider of agricultural seed, based in Einbeck, Germany. He has been with the company since 1998 in various capacities, CFO of KWS, and latterly responsible for the Corn Division and Corporate Marketing. He began his professional career in auditing at PricewaterhouseCoopers AG in 1995.

Dr Duenbostel holds an MBA from the universities of Regensburg and Passau in Germany and obtained his doctorate from the University of Göttingen, Germany.

In addition to his board position with Hero, Dr Duenbostel was on the Supervisory Board of Sievert AG, the Food and Agribusiness Council, Osnabrück and the Eastern European Economic Relations Committee, Berlin as Chairman of the Food and Agribusiness.