Professor Goeschel was appointed a Class II director in February 2007. From 2000 until his retirement in 2006, Goeschel was a member of the six-person Management Board of BMW Group, with overall responsibility for research, development and purchasing. Before beginning his career with BMW in 1978, he spent two years as a Group Leader for engine product development with Daimler Benz.
Goeschel holds a PhD degree in engineering from Stuttgart University and bachelors and masters degrees in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Munich. He is an honorary professor of the Technical University in Graz, Austria, holds an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich and is a member of the university�s management board and a trustee of its Institute for Advanced Studies. He is a member of the Council for Technical Sciences of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, serves on the Research Commission and the Scientific and Ethical Advisory Board for state of Bavaria, and was general chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2006 World Congress.
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