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Juergen Maier

Juergen Maier was Chief Executive of Siemens UK between 2014-2019. He was also a member of the Siemens UK Executive Board from 2008 and held senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany. This included Managing Director of Industrial activities for the UK and Manufacturing Director of the award-winning Drives factory in Congleton.

Juergen joined Siemens in 1986 with a BSc in production engineering from Nottingham Trent University, on a Siemens-sponsored graduate programme. He was made an honorary professor of Engineering at the University of Manchester in March 2014 and became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in September 2017. Juergen has also received honorary doctorates for his services to UK Science and Engineering from the Universities of Lincoln, Nottingham Trent and Salford Manchester.

Juergen is a passionate advocate of rebalancing the UK economy and has supported many UK-wide initiatives championing manufacturing, improved infrastructure and engineering skills. In 2017 he was asked by the Government to lead a review into how to increase the digitalisation of the UK manufacturing sector. The subsequent report led to the creation of the joint industry/government ‘Made Smarter’ Commission, which Juergen co-chairs. He also argues for the modern re-industrialisation of the North of England and is Chairman of the North West Business Leadership team, and a board member of both the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership and the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.

Born in 1964 in Germany with Austrian nationality, Juergen moved to the UK in 1974.

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