Dr. Dirk Elvermann, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of BASF SE
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Dr. Dirk Elvermann

Who we are

Dr. Dirk Elvermann
Member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE

Dr. Dirk Elvermann is Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of BASF SE.

Dirk Elvermann was born in 1971 in Unna, Germany. He studied Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and completed his doctorate in Law in 2002.

In 2003, he joined BASF. Among other roles, Dirk Elvermann was Managing Director of BASF Polska, responsible for Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, and President of Corporate Finance. He was appointed to the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE in 2023. 

He is responsible for the divisions Corporate Finance; Corporate Audit; Corporate Taxes & Duties; Global Business Services; Global Digital Services; Global Procurement; BASF Venture Capital and the startup trinamiX.

2023 Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Digital Officer of BASF SE, Ludwighafen, Germany
2019 President Corporate Finance, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen
2017 Member of the Board, Finance, Sales and Commercial, Wintershall Holding GmbH, Kassel, Germany
2015 Senior Vice President, Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Projects, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen
2012 Managing Director, BASF Polska Sp. z o.o., Warsaw, Poland
2010 Vice President, Legal and Tax Asia Pacific, BASF East Asia Headquarters Ltd., Hong Kong
2003 Legal Counsel, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen