About

Olaf Schneider is the general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary of leading European engineering and services group Bilfinger, which is a stock listed company with nearly 40,000 employees that offers customised services for industrial facilities. Prior to his current employment, Schneider served as general counsel for the industry sector of Siemens in Erlangen, and as chief compliance officer at MAN in Munich. Furthermore, he worked at GE in Frankfurt and Munich in different functions including as a member of the managing board of a group company. Schneider started his legal career with the international law firm Linklaters in Frankfurt, completed his legal education at the University of Bonn and served his mandatory legal clerkship in Cologne. He also holds a Master of Laws from University College London, UK.