Who we are
Dr. Stephan Kothrade
Member of the Board of Executive Directors and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BASF SE
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Stephan Kothrade was born in 1967 in Landshut, Germany. He has a doctorate in Organic Chemistry from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.
He is responsible for Monomers; Performance Materials; Petrochemicals; Intermediates; Group Research; Greater China; South & East Asia, ASEAN & Australia/New Zealand; Mega Projects Asia.