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News Item, , Gütersloh: Johannes Meier to leave Bertelsmann Stiftung

Dr. Johannes Meier, member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board, has announced he will not be extending his current contract at the foundation, which terminates at the end of September 2009. He is leaving the foundation at his own request in order to launch a consultancy and systems integration company specializing in the development of learning platforms. Meier has been a member of the Executive Board since October 1, 2003, where he has been responsible for the Job Market, Integration, Lifelong Learning, Demographic Change and Communities and Regions programs. “We very much regret Dr. Meier’s decision,” said Dr. Gunter Thielen, chairman and CEO of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. “In the past five years he has been a major contributor to increasing awareness of the Bertelsmann Stiftung as an important driver of social change.”

Born in 1963, Meier studied Information Technology at the Rheinisch-Westfälische University of Applied Sciences in Aachen, after which he completed his PhD at the University of Hawaii in its interdisciplinary program in Communications and IT. From 1990 to 1998 he worked in a variety of positions for McKinsey & Co. in their Hamburg, Hong Kong and Munich offices. In 1998 he became a member of the Executive board of GE CompuNet Computer, responsible for the areas of IT, Service and International Management. From May 2000 to April 2003 he served as chairman of GE CompuNet Computer.