Nationality German Name Wolfhart Hauser Ethnicity German Role Businessman | Occupation Businessman Successor Andre Lacroix Years active 1975–present | |
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Full Name Wolfhart Gunnar Hauser Born 5 December 1949 (age 74) ( 1949-12-05 ) Munich, Germany Education | ||
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Wolfhart Gunnar Hauser (born 5 December 1949) is a German businessman, the chairman of FirstGroup, and was the chief executive of Intertek, a British multinational inspection, product testing and certification company, from 2005 to 2015.
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Hauser has a master's degree in medicine from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a doctorate from Technical University Munich.
Hauser wrote his dissertation on the prevention of ski injuries, and went on to develop a ski binding that was certified by international quality organisations - his ski binding remains an ISO standard. Hauser was the chief executive of Intertek from March 2005 to 16 May 2015, and a non-executive director at Logica since 1 January 2007.
In July 2016, Hauser became the chairman of FirstGroup.