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• Further step in Group’s realignment
• Growing significance of sustainability taken into account
The Volkswagen Group’s External Relations and Government Affairs unit is to become a separate department in the organizational function headed by CEO Matthias Müller. Dr. Thomas Steg (55), the Volkswagen Group’s General Representative for External Relations and Government Affairs, will report direct to Müller and will also take charge of sustainability topics. Volkswagen is taking account of the growing significance of these issues by bundling Group responsibilities and by realigning sustainability activities.
Dr. Thomas Steg has been the Volkswagen Group’s General Representative for External Relations and Government Affairs since 2012. This unit used to be part of Group Communications. Steg is a social science graduate and began his career in 1986 as an editor with Braunschweiger Zeitung. He then worked as a press spokesperson, first for DGB Lower Saxony/Bremen, then for Lower Saxony’s Ministry of Social Affairs from 1991, and for the SPD parliamentary group in Lower Saxony from 1995. In 1998 he became deputy head of the office of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder at the Federal Chancellery, before holding the post of deputy government spokesman from 2002, and became an independent communications consultant in 2009.