Rene Wolf has been Director Manufacturing Vehicle Operations at Ford of Europe since 2017 and a member of the Management Board of Ford-Werke GmbH since October 2021, responsible for the Manufacturing division1. His career at Ford began in 1991 in the Quality department at Ford of Europe1.

Born in Thuringia, he studied electrical engineering/electronics at the Technical University of Dresden. Over the course of his career, he has worked in various areas of manufacturing, quality and production start-ups at the Ford plants in Cologne, Saarlouis, Kocaeli (Turkey), Craiova (Romania), England and South Africa2. From 2015 to 2017, he was Vice President Manufacturing at Ford Sollers in Russia before returning to Cologne.

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