Peter Terwiesch
ABB
President Process Automation & Member of the Group Executive Committee
Peter Terwiesch is President Process Automation and member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB since January 2015. He joined ABB in 1994 and, among other roles, was head of ABB’s Central Europe region from 2011 to 2014 and ABB’s Chief Technology Officer from 2005 to 2011. Peter Terwiesch serves on the Board of Directors of Metall Zug AG (Switzerland) since 2010 and is designated to join the Board of Directors of Hilti Group as of April 2022. From 2006 to 2012, he served as a member of BP plc’s Technology Advisory Council. In 2013, he was nominated as Fellow by IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control. In 2020, Terwiesch became an executive member of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance (ECH2A), the official EU body focused on the deployment of hydrogen technologies in Europe. He studied electrical engineering in Karlsruhe (Germany) and Strasbourg (France), holds a PhD from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School‘s General Manager Program (US). He was born in 1966 and is a Swiss and German citizen.