Werner Wenning
– Chairman
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Bayer AG, Leverkusen

Dr. Kurt Bock
Member of the Group Board of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen

Carl L. von Boehm-Bezing
Frankfurt am Main

Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley
Member of the Executive Board
of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Cologne

Francis Mer
Bourg-la-Reine

Alexey A. Mordashov
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal; Director General, Severstal-Group, Cherepovets (from February 13, 2006)

Dr. h. c. August Oetker
General Partner of Dr. August Oetker KG, Bielefeld

Eckhard Pfeiffer
Houston

Dr. Bernd Pischetsrieder
Chairman of the Board of  Management of Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg  

Dr. Wolfgang Reitzle
President and CEO of Linde AG, Wiesbaden

Dr. rer. pol. Michael Rogowski
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of J. M. Voith AG, Heidenheim

Håkan Samuelsson
President and CEO of MAN Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (from January 1, 2006)

Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler
Partner and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of INA-Holding Schaeffler KG, Herzogenaurach (from May 18, 2005)

Dr. Ronaldo H. Schmitz
Frankfurt am Main (until May 18, 2005)

Prof. Jürgen E. Schrempp
Munich (until July 29, 2005)

Dr. Cezary Stypulkowski
President and CEO PZU SA, Warsaw
(from January 1, 2006)

Jürgen R. Thumann
President, BDI – Federation of German Industries,Chairman of the Shareholders’ Committee Heitkamp & Thumann KG, Düsseldorf (from May 18, 2005)

Dr. Dieter Zetsche
Chairman of the Board of Management and Head of Mercedes Car Group of DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart (from October 1, 2005)