The Supervisory Board of Schaeffler AG has appointed Dr. Astrid Fontaine as Chief Human Resources Officer and as a full member of the Board of Managing Directors of Schaeffler AG, effective January 1, 2024. Dr. Fontaine has extensive and long-term international experience in the HR departments of well-known major automobile manufacturers. Dr. Astrid Fontaine is coming to Schaeffler from the Volkswagen Group, where she was most recently responsible for ?People & Transformation?

on the Board of Management at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles since September 2021. Before that, she was Head of ?People, Digitalization and IT? at Bentley Motors in the UK from January 2018 to August 2021, also at Board level.

Other activities in HR between 1994 and 2017 included positions at Porsche Cars North America and at DaimlerChrysler and Mercedes-Benz AG in Germany and the US. Dr. Fontaine, who has both German and US citizenship, holds multiple Supervisory Board mandates within the Volkswagen Group. She has a degree in business administration and mechanical engineering and was awarded a doctorate in the field of ?Information Systems?

after completing a PhD program in the US. She has been a member of the Expert Group on the Transformation of the Automotive Industry at the German Federal Ministry of Economics since 2022.