Ursula Schwarzenbart

In May 2005, Mrs. Schwarzenbart started her current assignment as Director of Global Diversity Management. The mission of the Global Diversity Office is the implementation of diversity and inclusion at Daimler worldwide.

From 1999 until 2001 she served as Senior HR Manager in Engineering of Mercedes Passenger Cars and was then promoted to the first HR Director position in Engineering. In 2000, she implemented the global rollout of a new performance and potential management system (LEAD). Prior to that, Mrs. Schwarzenbart managed organizational and human resources development for executive levels in Daimler's plant Sindelfingen after handling change management processes there. She has also worked on the development of the first behavioral-based training for supervisors and professionals. Her career at Daimler-Benz started with a degree in social and behavioral sciences in 1988.

Mrs. Schwarzenbart also serves as a member of the supervisory board at the University of Konstanz and the German Youth Insititute (DJI), Munich.