Dr. Giuseppe Vita
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Administration
Axel Springer
Germany
Biography
Dr. Giuseppe Vita, born in 1935, studied medicine in Rome, and was conferred his doctor’s degree summa cum laude in 1959. From 1961 to 1962 he worked as a radiology specialist in Rome before he came to Germany in 1962 with a scholarship and an internship at the Institute of Radiology of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz. In 1964 he joined Schering AG in Berlin as a research assistant for contrast agent research. As early as 1965 he was appointed CEO of Schering S.p.A. in Milan. In 1987 Dr. Vita returned to Berlin and was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of Schering AG, where he was active from 1989 to 2001 as Chairman of the Board and from 2001 to 2006 as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Dr. Vita has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer SE since 2001 and Chairman of the Supervisory Board since 2002. Moreover, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of UniCredit S.p.A. in Italy.
Research Interest
Engineering
