Change of Presidency at ZEW - Online Livestream of the Ceremony

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In a ceremony with invited guests, the farewell of long-standing ZEW President Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Franz takes place at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim today. Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest will be inaugurated as successor to Wolfgang Franz. Winfred Kretschmann, Minister-President of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, and Theresia Bauer, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg and Chairwoman of ZEW’s Supervisory Board, will open the event.

The president of the board of directors at UBS, Prof. Dr. Axel Weber, will hold the laudatory speech. A panel discussion on "ZEW Between the Poles of Research and Practice" with renowned participants will be followed by speeches by the outgoing and the new President, as well as by the Director of Business and Administration, Thomas Kohl.

The ceremony will be broadcasted as online livestream from 14:30 CET to approx. 16:30 CET.