Helmut G.W. Panke served as chairman of the board at BMW AG from May 2002 through August 2006.

Education

Panke attended the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), where he received his B.Sc. in 1968, M.S. in 1972, and Ph.D.

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 in 1976. He was an AFS

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 Exchange Student to the United States

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 in 1964-1965.

Career

From 1976 to 1978, Dr. Panke was a researcher at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research and a lecturer at the University of Munich. From 1978 to 1982, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company

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. In 1982, he started at his career at Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW).

Panke has served on the board of directors

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 for Microsoft

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 since November 11, 2003. He also serves on the boards of UBS AG

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, Singapore Airlines

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, and the supervisory board of Bayer AG.