Holger Lösch
Federation of German Industries (BDI)
Deputy Director General
Holger Lösch was born in Schweinfurt in 1963. He is married with two children. From 1983 to 1992 he studied Political Sciences, History and German at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Even during his studies he worked as a journalist and editor in the television section of Bayerischer Rundfunk. From 1995 he was head of the staff of the television directorate at Bayerischer Rundfunk, subsequently moving on to assume the management of Central Programme Coordination in 1998. In 2001 Holger Lösch moved to the Schörghuber Corporate Group in Munich. He was a member of the corporate management board. In 2008 he joined the Federation of German Industries (BDI). Holger Lösch has been a member of the BDI Executive Board since July 2011 and Deputy Director General of the BDI since April 2017. He is in charge of the transformational issues like energy, climate, sustainability and mobility. He was in charge of producing to major studies on industrial pathways towards climate neutrality in cooperation with Boston Consulting Group.