Effective February 1, 2014, Dr. Christiane Weiser-Zimmermann has been named head of Global Communications at BASF's Coatings division. She succeeds Dr. Martin Rissmann, who became head of the Global Communications unit at the Performance Materials division on January 1, 2014. Weiser-Zimmermann joins BASF from DuPont, where she held several communication positions.

Dr. Christiane Weiser-Zimmermann worked at the Office of Historic Urban and Landscape Research in Bonn and the Office for Archeology of the State of Saxony in Dresden. Dr. Martin Rissmann worked as a research staff member at the German Federal Chancellery and at the German Bundestag. In 1994, he joined BASF, where he assumed responsibility for Public Affairs and Political Communications.