New Country Representative for LANXESS in the UK

Effective October 1, 2021 Steven Thompson has become the new Country Representative of speciality chemicals group LANXESS in the UK and Managing Director of LANXESS in the UK. He follows Jacques Perez who will assume the function of LANXESS Country Representative in Japan. Steven Thompson will keep his current position as head of the Human Resources group function of the EMEA region.

After studying chemical engineering in the UK, Thompson started his career in the nuclear industry thereafter working across the retail and chemical sector within manufacturing operations, supply chain and logistics at Unilever, FMC, Great Lakes Chemicals and the Metro group. In 2011 he joined Chemtura as Director of EMEA Customer Services before moving to Human Resources. In the course of the acquisition of Chemtura by LANXESS, Thompson joined LANXESS as Global HR Business Partner of what is now the Polymer Additives business unit in April 2017. In addition, in February 2018 he also became Head of HR of the EMEA region.