for Business and Law). Burkhard Schwenker is also Visiting Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. In July 2017 Schwenker was appointed head of the newly created Kühne Logistics University advisory board. When he changed to the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in 2010, Burkhard Schwenker created a moderate uproar by writing a farewell letter to the staff at the company in which he critically reflected upon his time as the company's CEO. Additionally, Schwenker is the initiator of Best of European Business. Burkhard Schwenker is married and has three children. He lives in Hamburg. Board memberships Schwenker is a member of the supervisory boards of the Hamburger Sparkasse, of Hamburg Airport and serves on the M. M. Warburg & Co. private bank shareholder board. In May 2017 he was appointed chairman of the Hensoldt GmbH advisory board by the Federal Ministry of Economy. Schwenker sits on the advisory board of a variety of start-ups, including FreightHub, an all-digital trucking company headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Socio-political engagement Besides his tasks as chairman of the Advisory Board of Roland Berger, Burkhard Schwenker is engaged in various initiatives and organizations. On 1 September 2010, Burkhard Schwenker became head of the Roland Berger Foundation. Each year, the foundation awards scholarships to underprivileged youth. Additionally, Schwenker supports the "Verband deutscher Unternehmerinnen (VdU)", the German branch of the international FCEM, and its key project focusing on the promotion of a stronger presence of women on supervisory boards. Since 2015 he sits on the advisory board of the charity ZEIT-Stiftung. He is Deputy Chairman of Atlantik Brücke e.V. As Deputy Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke he's working to strengthen German-American relations. Within Atlantik-Brücke he is also in charge of the working group on foreign and security policy. Schwenker is chairman of the Board of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. In November 2011 Burkhard Schwenker was a member of a 21-man jury which, in cooperation with the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche, selected the 60 most important people driving the country's so-called Energiewende ("energy transition"). Schwenker serves as patron of the book project "Jüdische Soldaten - jüdischer Widerstand" (Jewish soldiers – Jewish resistance). In his opinion the book offers historic experiences, which could be the foundation of education in a European community of shared values. He is a member of the Senate or Board of Trustees for the following: Germany's National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech); the