Up close and personal with Frank Appel

HE has a master of science in chemistry from the University of Munich and a doctorate in neurobiology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, but he does not look at test tubes nor neural networks. Instead, he looks at how businesses and societies are linked and how they can be further connected.

A scientist by training but a corporate figure by profession, Frank Appel heads one of the world's leading postal and logistics company. As a PhD student, he was involved with spinal chord regeneration research.