
Nina Schwab-Hautzinger
Dr. Nina Schwab-Hautzinger has been appointed Head of Corporate Communications and Government Relations at BASF.
She succeeds Anke Schmidt, who is leaving BASF at the end of July, and will start the new role as of November 1, 2020.
"We are pleased that with Nina Schwab-Hautzinger, we were able to recruit an accomplished and internationally experienced communicator for BASF," said Dr. Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors.
Schwab-Hautzinger has many years of broad communications experience from senior positions on national, regional and global levels.
She is currently Global Head of Corporate Brand & Communications of the healthcare company Roche at its headquarters in Switzerland.
Prior to this role, she was Head of Communications and Public Affairs at Roche Pharma Germany and from 2011 to 2013, was a Communications and Strategy Consultant at Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Singapore.
Schwab-Hautzinger studied at the universities of Mannheim, Germany and Waterloo, Canada. She received her doctorate from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, at the Institute for Journalism and Media Research.