Hans-Joachim Polk

Member of the Executive Board at VNG

Speaker

Hans-Joachim Polk joined RWE Dea AG in 1991. In the course of his professional career, Polk spent 3.5 years working for RWE Dea in Cairo before returning to Germany, where he was responsible as Head of Operations for production from Germany’s largest oilfield, Mittelplate and as Senior Vice President Field Development RWE Dea. As Managing Director of RWE Dea Norge from 2011-2013, Polk optimized the license portfolio and intensified exploration activities in Norway. Before joining VNG AG in 2013 he was appointed Managing Director of RWE Dea UK Holdings Limited. As a Member of the Executive Board of VNG he is now responsible for Infrastructure and Technical Affairs. In addition to his function at VNG Hans-Joachim Polk is Member of the Supervisory Board of several VNG subsidiaries, e.g. ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH and Erdgasspeicher Peissen GmbH. In 2014 he was elected as a Member of the Board and Vice-President of the German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce.