FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn on Tuesday voted to appoint Evelyn Palla as the German state-owned rail operator’s CEO, tasking a company insider with the turnaround of a company dogged by under-investment and delayed train services.
Palla is currently head of the group’s commuter and short-distance train unit DB Regio and will take the helm on October 1, Deutsche Bahn said in a statement.
Palla, who is to become Deutsche Bahn’s first female CEO, joined the group in 2019, having previously worked for chipmaker Infineon, energy group E.ON and Austrian railway operator OeBB.
Last month, Germany’s transport ministry said that Deutsche Bahn’s current CEO Richard Lutz would leave the company after a difficult tenure.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger and Christian Kraemer, Editing by Friederike Heine)
