Prof. Klaus Josef Lutz

Biography

 Prof. Klaus Josef Lutz has been the Chief Executive Officer of BayWa since July 2008. His responsibility includes: Corporate Audit, Corporate Business Development, Corporate Compliance, Corporate Governance, Corporate HR, Corporate M&A, Corporate Marketing, PR/Corporate Communications/Public Affairs, Corporate Risk, Corporate Sustainability, BayWa Foundation, BayWa Agri Supply und Trade (BAST), Fruit and the Chairmanship of executive and supervisory committees of the international agriculture and fruit holdings.     A native of Munich, Klaus Josef Lutz, studied law at the LMU in Munich. He began his career initially as a lawyer but soon assumed managerial positions in a number of different sectors which enabled him to gain extensive experience, above all in the restructuring and development of companies. Among other positions, Lutz was General Manager of Digital Equipment GmbH, Chief Executive Officer of DITEC Informationstechnologie AG, General Manager of Burda Druck GmbH and Chief Executive Officer of i-center Beteiligungen AG. His last post before joining BayWa was as General Manager of Süddeutscher Verlag GmbH. Lutz was appointed Chief Executive Officer of BayWa AG in July 2008. The company’s business activities are comprised under the Agriculture, Building Materials and Energy segments, with a special focus on renewable energies. In addition, Klaus Josef Lutz is on the supervisory boards of a number of listed and private companies, including Euro Pool System International, Rijswijk/ Netherlands (Chairman), WHG mbH, Klagenfurt/ Austria (Chairman), T&G Global Limited, Auckland/ New Zealand (Chairman), RWA AG, Vienna/ Austria (Member of the Supervisory Board) and Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, Munich/ Germany (Chairman). In 2013, Lutz was appointed as an honorary professor of Managerial Economics of Co-operative Societies at the Technische Universität München. He has been the vice president of  IHK München und Oberbayern (Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Munich and Upper Bavaria) since 2016 as well as the vice president of Deutscher Raiffeisenverband e.V. (German Raiffeisen Association) since 2017 .

Research Interest

 Business Development