Dr. Torsten Sevecke

Member since June 2018

Personal information

  • Born: 1962 in Hamburg
  • Nationality: German
  • Place of residence: Hamburg

Current occupation and career history

  • Since March 2018: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (“FHH”), State Secretary at the Ministry for Economy, Transport and Innovation (areas: economy and innovation)
  • 2016 – 2018: FHH, Senate Director at the Ministry for Economy, Transport and Innovation, head of the department “port and innovation”
  • 2010 – 2016: FHH, head of the district office Eimsbuettel
  • 2005 – 2010: FHH, Coordinator of land development by the Senate, Ministry for Urban Development and Environment
  • 1995 – 2005: FHH, various activities in the Hamburg administration
  • 1996 – 1998: FHH, Entry into the Senior Public Administration Service
  • 1990 – 1994: Stays abroad at UNCITRAL, UN-Commission for International Trade Law, Vienna, and UNDPKO, UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations, New York
  • 1982 – 1985: Soldier serving for a limited period at the tank division, Colonel of the reserve

Education

  • Ph.D. in law at the University of Hamburg (1997)
  • Degree in law, studies of social and economic history at the University of Hamburg

Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards of German companies

  • 4Free AG, Hamburg
  • Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank Anstalt öffentlichen Rechts, Hamburg¹
  • HGV Hamburger Gesellschaft für Vermögens- und Beteiligungsmanagement mbH, Hamburg¹

Memberships in comparable domestic or foreign controlling bodies of business enterprises

  • Erneuerbare Energien Hamburg Clusteragentur GmbH, Hamburg (Chairman)¹
  • Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH, Hamburg (Chairman)¹
  • Hamburg Tourismus GmbH, Hamburg (Chairman)¹
  • HIW Hamburg Invest Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg (Chairman)¹
  • Life Science Nord Management GmbH, Hamburg (Chairman)¹
  • ReGe Hamburg-Projekt-Realisierungsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg¹
  • ZAL Zentrum für Angewandte Luftfahrtforschung GmbH, Hamburg (Chairman)¹

Other material activities in addition to the Supervisory Board mandate

  • Board of Trustees of the Logistik-Initiative Hamburg e.V. (Deputy Chairman)
  • hySOLUTIONS GmbH, Hamburg, Chairman of the Advisory Board¹

¹ Company affiliated with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (other than HHLA group)