Michael Koch

Michael Koch holds a degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

He joined the BMW Group in 1997 and has held various management positions since 2000, including several with global responsibility. He has been Vice President of the BMW Group since 2009. He drives sustainability in his own business unit at the BMW Group, including the calculation of its carbon footprint.

Michael lectures on sustainability, leadership, and quality at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Fraunhofer Research Institute IZFP in Saarbrücken, Germany.

In 2017, he joined the Rotary Club München-Residenz and since 2018, he is the Community Services Chair of his club. He has organized charity bike rides in support of End Polio Now with more than 100,000 km cycled since 2019. He calculated the CO2 footprint of his Rotary Club for the first time in January 2022 and launched and led the Become Sustainable! project in March 2022 that assists Rotary clubs to become sustainable and climate friendly.

He joined the Environmental and Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG) in 2022 and became co-Chair of ESRAG Europe in 2023. He serves as District D1842 sustainability chair since 2024.