Alfred Stern

Effective September 2021, Alfred Stern was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of OMV Aktiengesellschaft. He took over the Executive Board five months after his appointment as Executive Officer of the newly created Chemicals & Materials division. Prior to that, he was CEO of Borealis since July 2018, where he had been a member of the Executive Board for six years, responsible for the division Polyolefins and Innovation & Technology. Alfred Stern joined Borealis as Senior Vice President Innovation & Technology in 2008, coming from E.I. Du Pont de Nemours where he held several leadership positions in the areas of research and development, sales and marketing, and quality and business management in Switzerland, Germany and the United States. In his last assignment, he was Global Business Manager of a business unit in Engineering Polymers in the United States. He holds a PhD in material science and a Master's Degree in polymer engineering and science, both from the University of Leoben in Austria. Alfred Stern has been awarded, among others, the H.F. Mark Medal, the DuPont Award for a new product patent and a Prize of Honour from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research.