Executive Board

The Executive Board develops the FISITA strategy, aligned with the priorities of the international membership community, and to create and deliver activities and engagement to benefit the FISITA membership community.

Established around the rolling two-year governance and operational cadence of FISITA, the Executive Board 2023-2025 is formed of:

Mr. Mike Anderson

President

Vice President, Global Electrification & Battery Systems
General Motors

United States of America

Mr. ChangHwan Kim

President Elect

Senior Vice President

Hyundai Motor Company

Republic of Korea

Ms. Nadine Leclair

Past President

FISITA President & previously Senior Vice President, Expert Fellow at Groupe Renault
FISITA

France

Mrs Sophie Schmidtlin

Fellow

Alliance Global VP for Research and Advanced Engineering
Groupe Renault

France

Prof. Klaus Kompass

Vice President – Europe

Consultant
 

KKo4Safety
 

Germany

Mr. Yuichi Azuma

Vice President – Asia

Executive Director
 

JSAE – Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan

Japan

Dr. -Ing. Friedrich Wolf-Monheim

Vice President – Education

Innovation Project Manager
 

Ford Motor Company 
 

Germany

Dr. Feng Shen

Vice President – Industry

Executive Vice President & Chairman of Global Quality Management Committee

NIO
 

China

Mr. Jose Manuel Barrios

Vice President – Society

Head of Digital Solutions

Applus IDIADA

Spain

Dr. -Ing. Matthias Klauda

Vice President – Strategy

Executive Vice President Engineering Cross-Domain Computing Solutions
Robert Bosch

Germany

Mr. Christophe Aufrère

Vice President – Technical

SVP Group CTO

Forvia

France

Dr. Jun Li

Director

Professor

Tsinghua University

China

Mr. Chris Mason

Chief Executive Officer

CEO
FISITA

United Kingdom

Deputies and Advisors

Prof. Kyoungdoug Min

Deputy Vice President – Asia

Professor and Director of the Institute of Advance Machines and Design

Seoul National University (SNU)

Korea, Republic of

Ms. Ouafae El Ganaoui-Mourlan

Deputy Vice President – Education

Powertrain Engineering Program Manager and Associate Professor

IFP School

France

Mr. Luděk Hynčík

Advisor – Education

Director of the New Technologies – Research Centre and the Associate Professor at the Faculty of Applied Sciences
University of West Bohemia

Czech Republic

Mr. Daniel E. Nicholson

Advisor – Industry

VP, Global Electrification, Controls, Software and Electronic Hardware

General Motors

United States

Mr. Yves Arbeille

Deputy Vice President – Society

Vice President


SIA – France

France

Mr. Murli M. Iyer

Advisor – Society

Executive Advisor – Global Affairs


SAE International

United States

Mr. Michael Bauer

Deputy Vice President – Strategy

Director, Development Strategy, Systems Engineering and Technology-Management for Powertrain Systems
Robert Bosch

Germany

Dipl. -Ing. Christof Kerkhoff

Advisor – Strategy

Managing Director


VDI – Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V.

Germany

Mr. Xuming Zhang

Deputy Vice President – Technical

Deputy Secretary General

CSAE – China SAE

China