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Michael König was appointed to the Board of Management of Bayer AG effective April 1, 2013. He is Labor Director and responsible for human resources, the Latin America, Africa and Middle East regions and the subsidiary Currenta.

Michael König was born in Iserlohn on September 3, 1963. After studying chemical process engineering at TU Dortmund University and performing his compulsory military service, König joined Bayer as a process engineer for chemicals projects in Europe. He assumed a variety of engineering-related positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of engineering, process development and maintenance management.

He transferred to China in 2000 to become General Manager of Bayer Polymers Shanghai Co. Ltd. There he oversaw the construction of the new production site, the Bayer Integrated Site Shanghai, and was made site manager in 2002. Thereafter he served as Global Head of Production and Technology Isocyanates at Bayer MaterialScience.