Who is who

Veit Haug

 

Veit HaugVeit Haug, Director of the Stuttgart Region Economic Development
Corporation (WRS).


Born in 1966, he has a university degree in information technology and a research scholarship to the Institute of International Media Communication in San Francisco. Since 1996 he has been director for the Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation (WRS). For the WRS he is responsible for innovation policy and for international affairs.

His track record includes work projects for various companies and the promotion of several regional, national and European initiatives.

Amongst others the European projects SPRING, SCIFI and BELCar, the federal telematics project MOBILIST or the Regional Competence Centre Program REKIZ.

Veit Haug has been engaged in various initiatives like the European Hydrogen and Fuelcell Platform or the European ELITE group. He served as an expert for European regions like Barcelona and Valencia as well as
for the European Commission, e.g in the programme committee for the European Forum for Innovative Enterprises 2004.

Since the year of 2000 he teaches Mediatechnology and -management at the University of Tuebingen and since 2003 he has been Managing Director of the Stuttgart Region Business Angel Network.