Chairman, Adecco Institute

Wolfgang Clement (*1940) is Chairman of the Adecco Institute, London, since its foundation in October 2006.

Wolfgang Clement was State Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) from 1998 - 2002 and was German Federal Minister of Economics & Labour from 2002 - 2005.

After completing secondary school, an internship at a newspaper, a degree in law and a period as a teaching and research assistant at the University of Marburg/Germany, Clement became a political editor beginning in 1968, later head of the political department and finally deputy editor-in-chief of the Westfaelische Rundschau in Dortmund, Germany. He was the editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Morgenpost from 1986 to 1989.

In1997 he received an honorary doctorate from the electrical engineering faculty of the University of Hagen, Germany, and in 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Law Faculty of Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany.

Wolfgang Clement has been a member of the SPD since 1970. From 1981 to 1986, he was the spokesperson of the SPD federal executive board and from 1985 to 1986 also served as the deputy federal party whip. In 1989, the then North Rhine-Westphalian state premier Johannes Rau appointed him head of the state chancellery, from 1990 he was Minister for Special Tasks and after the 1995 state election, Clement served in Rau's cabinet as Minister of Economics and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME), Technology and Transport.

Wolfgang Clement is a member of supervisory boards and advisory boards of several German as well as international companies.

Wolfgang is married and has five children.