Frank Appel

Frank Appel has been CEO of Deutsche Post since 18 February 2008. His present appointment is through October 2022. He has been Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post AG since 1 November 2002.

Career
Appel served as Chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Postbank AG, but effective 31 December 2010, he resigned his position on the supervisory board.

In his capacity as CEO, Appel has accompanied Chancellor Angela Merkel on various state visits abroad, including to China in 2012 and in 2014.

At the shareholders' meeting on April 7, 2022, Appel was elected to the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Telekom AG until 2026. On the same day, he was elected by the Supervisory Board to succeed Ulrich Lehner as its Chairman.

Government agencies

 * Economic Development Board (EDB), Member of the International Advisory Council

Corporate boards

 * DHL Global Forwarding, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
 * Adidas, Member of the supervisory board (2018-2019)
 * Deutsche Postbank, Chairman of the Supervisory board (2008-2011)
 * Deutsche Telekom AG, Member and Chairman of the Supervisory Board (since 2022)

Non-profit organizations

 * Baden-Badener Unternehmer-Gespräche (BBUG), Member of the Board of Trustees
 * econsense, Member of the Board of Trustees
 * Federation of German Industries (BDI), Member of the Presidium
 * Max Planck Society, Member of the Senate
 * Working Group of Protestant Businesses (AEU), Member of the Board of Trustees

Personal life
Appel was born in 1961, is married and is the father of two children. He spent his childhood growing up in Hamburg.

Education

 * 1989 - MSc in chemistry, University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
 * 1993 - PhD in neurobiology at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.