Dr. Vera Haye will be the new General Manager of the Adhesives Industry Association (Industrieverband Klebstoffe e.V.) as of January 1, 2021. (IVK). She succeeds Ansgar van Halteren, who will retire at the end of 2020 after almost 38 years of association work – 28 years of which he headed the association.
Vera Haye, who holds a doctorate in microbiology, was born in Mettmann in 1979. After studying biology in Düsseldorf, she moved to the Technical University of Hamburg, where she completed her doctorate at the Institute for Technical Microbiology and then worked for three years as a postdoc. In 2013, Dr. Haye returned to Düsseldorf and worked as a scientific officer in the networking department of the Cluster Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB). Since 2018, she has been working at IVK, where she was responsible for the areas of communication and sustainability as managing director since July 2020.