Wolfgang Lehmacher

Operating Partner

Anchor Group

Wolfgang Lehmacher is an independent global supply chain and logistics expert, board member, executive adviser, and practitioner who supports professionals, corporations, consultancies, investors, and startups in perpetuating technology-enabled transformation for sustainable, profitable growth. Former Director, Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries, World Economic Forum, New York and Geneva, Partner, Managing Director, China and India, at strategy firm CVA, Hong Kong, President and CEO GeoPost Intercontinental, the global investment vehicle of France's La Poste, and Head of Eastern European and Mediterranean Regions, and Country General Manager Switzerland at TNT, now FedEx. Member of the advisory board of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society, Singapore, Ambassador of the European Freight and Logistics Leaders Forum, Brussels, and Advisor of RISE, Sweden, and Global:SF, San Francisco. The mentor at Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale is a founding member of the Logistikweisen, a logistics expert committee under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry BMDV, the Ethical Committee of Dynex Moonshots, and NEXST, a think tank initiated by Reefknot, Kuehne & Nagel and SGInnovate, Singapore. Lehmacher is a prolific writer and public speaker (>100 engagements in >30 countries) at events globally, including the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Global Leadership Lecture Series at MIT, and the IfM at University of Cambridge. He is Marine Traffic 'top influencer one should follow', LinkedIn 'top voice', and Quora ‘top writer', FT, Forbes, Fortune, BI, and Nikkei contributor, and (co-)author of many articles (>100) and books (>10), including "Disrupting Logistics" and "Circular Economy", and co-editor of "Maritime Decarbonization."