On Friday 6 December 2024, Luxinnovation announced the appointment of Mario Grotz as CEO from 1 March 2025.
Mario Grotz will succeed Sasha Baillie, who will take up her post as Marshal of the Court on that date.
Mario Grotz, First Government Counsellor, was head of the Directorate-General (DG) for Infrastructure and Technology of the Ministry of the Economy between 2009 and 2012. He then took over the ministry’s DG Research, Intellectual Property and New Technologies, which became DG Inter (Innovation, New Technologies and Research) in 2021. He has also chaired the Board of Directors of Luxinnovation since 2018, a position he will hand over on 1 March. He will be seconded from the Ministry for his new role as CEO, Luxinnovation confirmed.