Haniel Lecture 09 2010 E.pdf - Haniel Stiftung

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About the speakers
Ronald Heifetz M.D. is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer
in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
and co-founder of the Center for Public Leadership. He is
well-known for his groundbreaking work on the study and practice
of leadership. His work focuses on how to strengthen the adaptive
capabilities of society, business and the non-profi t sector. His
book, “Leadership without Easy Answers”, is now available in its
13th edition. He is also the co-author of “Leadership on the Line
and The Practice of Adaptive Leadership”. Alongside his work at
the Harvard Kennedy School, Dr Heifetz M.D. also provides consultancy
services for leading politicians as well as fi gures from the
private and non-profi t sectors and is co-founder of the consultancy
fi rm Cambridge Leadership Associates. He is an ex-graduate
of Columbia University, of the Harvard Medical School and of the
Harvard Kennedy School. He is a doctor and an excellent cellist.
Friedrich Merz studied jurisprudence and political science in Bonn
and Marburg. He began work fi rst as a judge and later became
a lawyer. He was elected to the European Parliament in 1989,
where he was a member until 1994. He was then a member of
the Bundestag until 2009 and also held the chair of the CDU/CSU
parliamentary group. At the beginning of January 2010, he was
appointed to the Supervisory Board of HSBC Trinkaus as successor
to the late Otto Graf Lambsdorff . Since June 2010, he has held
power of attorney for the sale of WestLB. His book, “Only Those
Who Change Will Survive” (2004), remained on the bestseller list
for months. He published “Venturing More Capitalism: Ways to a
Just Society in 2008” and co-wrote “What Needs to Be Done Now:
Germany 2.0” together with Wolfgang Clement in 2010.