German-Serbian Business Association has a New Board of Directors

At the recently held meeting of the former German Business Association in Belgrade, which currently brings together 220 companies from Serbia and Germany, some important decisions have been made and further guidelines for future work. The first relates to the change of the name of the Association which is now called the German-Serbian Economic Association, and the other to elect a new board of directors instead of the former executive board, the association said in the statement.

As noted, the present parties elected nine directors and competent entrepreneurs in their fields of activity.

Members of the new Board of Directors of 'DSW's are the following entrepreneurs: Tihomir Rajlić (Siemens), Jacek Mazurkiewicz (Merck), Thomas Urban (Dr. Oetker), Nenad Vucinic (VIP Mobile), Bojan Predojević (Profine), Nikola Ivošević (Rehau) , Christian Braunig (Confida Consulting), Aleksandar Marinkovic (TUI) and David Piegazki (Wolf). Beside them, in the Board of Directors' activities will also continue to be included Michael Schmidt (German Economic Delegation in Serbia) and the head of economic department the German embassy in Belgrade.

On behalf of the Association, Michael Schmidt, director of the German Economic Delegation in Serbia, who is now Executive Director and Coordinator, thanked the former President of the Board Ernst Bode (Messer-Tehnogas) on his many years of significant involvement in the Association.

The new board of directors of the German-Serbian Business Association will place greater emphasis in its future work on the further intensification of the Serbian-German economic cooperation, especially in the following economic sectors: industry, energy, infrastructure, health, food, green technology, ICT, trade and tourism.

Meanwhile, Germany has become the most important foreign trade partner of Serbia, and about 360 of their companies with active business in Serbia have invested EUR 1.5 billion since 2000 in the Serbian economy and also employ more than 20,000 people.