DENA - Key Persons

Corinna Enders has been Chairperson of the Management Board since October 2023. In this function, she is responsible for dena's operational and strategic development as well as its content-related orientation. Her work focuses on supporting the German government and all actors involved in the transformation to climate neutrality. Corinna Enders studied law in Germany and Italy and is an expert on environmental and climate policy. After briefly working as a lawyer, she started at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz, (BMUV)) and worked in various departments of the ministry. This was followed by a stint as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Nairobi, Kenya. She then worked for the BMUV again as deputy head of the ‘International Climate Protection' unit. Before joining dena, Corinna Enders was Managing Director of Zukunft - Umwelt - Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH in Berlin, where she built up and expanded the company. Her responsibilities there included strategic and operational management, issue and focus setting, political communication and representation of the society. Corinna Enders was born in Berlin in 1977 and grew up in Tübingen. Corinna Enders has been the Chairperson of the Executive Board since October 2023. In this function, she is responsible for dena's operational and strategic development, content-related orientation, public representation and communication. Kristina Haverkamp has been dena's Managing Director since October 2015. As such, she is responsible in particular for the commercial and administrative areas as well as the key topics of sustainability in transport and international cooperation.

Daniela Lück

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Head of Administration

Dr Helmut Schönenberger

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Managing Director of Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners GmbH and UnternehmerTUM GmbH

Hanne May - CCO

ha..@dena.de

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Head of Communications

Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven

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Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Management Board

Johanna Meier

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Employee
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Katharina Bensmann

ka..@dena.de

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Director, Planning and Consulting

Kristina Haverkamp - Managing Director

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Managing Director
Lawyer by Training, Kristina Haverkamp Is Responsible for Dena 's Financial and Administrative Matters, Along With Matters Related to International Read
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Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French Environment

Kristina Haverkamp has been dena's Managing Director since October 2015. She is in charge of the financial and administrative matters of the company and also holds responsibility both for international cooperation and sustainability in the transport sector. A lawyer by training, Kristina Haverkamp studied in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. She began her career in the Foreign Office as a consultant in international environmental policy, and later became a rapporteur for the transport sector at the Federal Cartel Office. Subsequently, she held positions at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, the Federal Ministry of Finance, and, most recently, at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU. Here, as Head of the Department of Economics, the ministerial adviser was in charge of energy, environmental and industrial policy, as well as policies related to small and medium-sized enterprises. Kristina Haverkamp is a member of the scientific advisory board of the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie (ADEME)) and is on the Board of the European Renewable Gas Registry (ERGaR). Kristina Haverkamp was born in 1961 and is mother to one son. Kristina Haverkamp has been dena's Managing Director since October 2015. As such, she is responsible in particular for the commercial and administrative areas as well as the key topics of sustainability in transport and international cooperation. Many new colleagues, more locations and increasingly international cooperation - that is both a strength and a challenge. In order to be able to continue to work together efficiently and flexibly, we have consistently modernised ourselves in terms of subject structure as well as digital and mobile working. Lawyer by training, Kristina Haverkamp is responsible for dena's financial and administrative matters, along with matters related to international cooperation and sustainability in the transport sector.

Rafael Noster

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Employee
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Stefan Tidow

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Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection

Stefan Wenzel

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Chairman of the Supervisory Board )

Stefan Wenzel (Chair of the Supervisory Board) Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven (Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board) Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Stefan Tidow Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection Claudia Müller Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture Antje Geese Ministerial Director, Head of the Budget Department (H) at the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Dr Helmut Schönenberger Managing Director of Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners GmbH and UnternehmerTUM GmbH Beatrice Kuhn Employee representative Johanna Meier Employee representative Rafael Noster Employee representative