About Wolfgang Lehmacher
Wolfgang Lehmacher (* 1960 in Bonn, Germany) is CEO, chairman and board director (ED and NED), CXO advisor, operating partner, business angel – book author and keynote speaker. The influential leader and industry and technology evangelist is partnering with stakeholders across the global supply chain ecosystem, from start-ups, to asset owners and corporate enterprises to drive growth and business model innovation. He held senior positions, including Director, Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at the World Economic Forum, Partner and Managing Director (China and India) at CVA, a global strategy firm, and President and CEO of GeoPost Intercontinental, the global express parcel expansion vehicle of French La Poste. Before joining La Poste, Wolfgang Lehmacher held C-level positions at TNT, like Head of Eastern European and Eastern Mediterranean regions and Country General Manager Switzerland.
Lehmacher is a prolific writer and frequent public speaker at events globally, including the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Global Leadership Lecture Series at MIT, and the IfM at University of Cambridge. He has been Marine Traffic ‘top influencer one should follow’, LinkedIn ‘top voice’, and Quora ‘top writer’. He is FT, Forbes, Fortune, BI and Nikkei contributor and (co-)author of many papers and books, including “Disrupting Logistics” and “Circular Economy”, and co-editor of “Maritime Decarbonization”.
