On 1 January 2026, Lars Grotewold will become the new Chairman of the Executive Board of the non-profit Stiftung Mercator. He will then succeed Wolfgang Rohe, who is leaving the Essen-based foundation due to his age. Grotewold is currently Director of the Centre for Climate Action. [...]
Ursula Noack has joined Merics as of today. She will be part of the management board and be leading finance and operations at the institute. Before joining MERICS, Ms. Noack was the Managing Director at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), a non-university research institution funded by the federal government and the state of Berlin, since 2017. [...]
Sustainability is firmly rooted in many companies - but the momentum is faltering because politics do not provide a stable framework. This is a key result of the Sustainability Transformation Monitor 2025, a survey of almost 600 sustainability managers in the German economy. [...]
Despite ongoing enhancements to our security measures, hackers have managed to penetrate the IT systems of Stiftung Mercator and compromise certain data. The police are already investigating. The full extent of the damage is currently unknown. The foundation remains operational despite some current limitations. [...]
