Harald Wester

Harald Wester was appointed Chief Engineering Officer and a member of Stellantis’ Top Executive Team in January 2021.

He has an extensive background in product development, commercial and business operations and strategy.

Wester started his professional career at Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg, where he was General Manager of the Vehicle Research and New Concepts department from 1991 to 1995. He later joined Audi AG in Ingolstadt where he became Program Manager for the A2 models and Special Vehicles, a position that he held until 1999.

He joined Ferrari S.p.A. at Maranello as Director of Product Development, where he remained until 2002. Wester was then named Group President Engineering and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) (Research, Development and Technologies) at Magna Steyr AG, Magna AG (Graz, Vienna). In 2004, he joined the Fiat Group where he took on the role of CTO of Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A.

Wester was appointed CTO for Fiat Group in 2007. In addition to this role, in 2008 he was appointed CEO of Maserati S.p.A.; CEO of Abarth & C. S.p.A. in 2009 and CEO of Alfa Romeo Automobiles in 2010.

He served as Chief Operating Officer of Maserati after he was appointed to the position in 2018. Wester also served as Head of Alfa Romeo and Maserati (until 2016) and Abarth (until 2013).

Wester was named Executive Chairman of Maserati and his role of CTO for FCA was expanded to include global powertrain along with global vehicle engineering in 2019. He served as a member of the FCA Group Executive Council and CTO from September 2011.

He holds a master’s in mechanical engineering from Technical University of Braunschweig (Braunschweig, Germany).