Dorothee Arns, PETROCHEMICALS EUROPE, CEFIC Executive Director – Petrochemicals Europe, CEFIC
Dorothee Arns, a German national, completed her university studies in Saarbruecken (Germany), Dublin (Ireland) and Granada (Spain) with two Master degrees: one in Applied Languages & Linguistics and the other one in Business Administration with special focus on Marketing, International Management and private law. Her professional career in the chemical industry started in 1995 when she joined the marketing & sales trainee programme of BASF in Ludwigshafen. In the course of the years she held senior management positions in various areas of BASF chemicals’ business, notably in marketing, sales, eBusiness and controlling. On 1 July 2013 she was appointed Executive Director of Cefic’s Petrochemicals and Plastic Additives Programme as well as Petrochemicals Europe, the Association of Petrochemical Producers in Europe, formerly APPE. It is not her first time in Brussels: in her first assignment to Cefic from 2006 to 2011 she headed the solvents’ cluster as Director General of ESIG, the European Solvents Industry Group.