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Iveco Group announces Senior Leadership Team changes

 Turin, 1st December 2022. Iveco Group N.V. (MI: IVG) today announces the appointment of Angela Qu as Chief Supply Chain Officer and Ángel Rodríguez Lagunilla as Chief Manufacturing Officer, effective immediately.

Angela Qu has over 25 years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain, procurement and management consulting. In 1994, Ms. Qu was appointed by Siemens to develop greenfield manufacturing sites in China. She then headed Global Sourcing at Leybold Optics, later acquired by Bühler Group. She joined ABB in 2005, where she worked in Germany and Switzerland with increasing responsibilities, mainly in Supply Chain and ultimately leading the function at global level. In 2019, Ms. Qu was appointed Chief Procurement Officer of Lufthansa Group and was also a member of the Supervisory Board of Lufthansa Cargo. Ms. Qu holds an MBA in Supply Chain Management from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, she is currently an independent Board Director for Gurin Energy and DANX Carousel and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply.

Ángel Rodríguez Lagunilla has successfully led the Manufacturing organisation of Iveco Group since its inception. After a degree in Engineering from the University of Valladolid, Spain, Mr. Rodríguez Lagunilla joined IVECO in 1998 and, since then, developed his professional career within the Company with roles of increasing responsibility. In 2011 he was appointed Director of the Madrid plant which, thanks to his lean manufacturing and smart factory expertise, rapidly became the Group’s benchmark facility. In 2015, he was appointed Head of Commercial Vehicles and Bus Manufacturing for the EMEA region and, in January 2019, was named Head of Commercial and Special Vehicles Manufacturing for IVECO globally.

In their new roles, Angela Qu and Ángel Rodríguez Lagunilla join the Senior Leadership Team of Iveco Group. Annalisa Stupenengo, previously Chief Operations Officer, leaves the organisation after more than 25 years of growing responsibilities and success within the former FCA and CNH Industrial groups.

Gerrit Marx, CEO, Iveco Group, stated: “In a scenario characterised by increasingly complex and challenging market dynamics, we need to ensure our operations have the required agility and effectiveness. Therefore, with the goal to enhance business proximity and focus, we have created two new and distinct organisations, each of them accountable for providing streamlined and effective support to our Business Units. I am confident that Angela and Ángel will contribute their unique strengths in terms of experience, boldness and passion for the ultimate success of our Group, continuing and further enhancing the path successfully initiated by Annalisa in her last assignment as Chief Operations Officer. I am very appreciative of all the hard work that Annalisa has done for us over the last years.”

Suzanne Heywood, Chair, Iveco Group, stated: “I would like to thank Annalisa for her many years of contribution to the Group and wish her all the best for her future endeavours, I also join Gerrit on behalf of the Board of Directors in congratulating the new senior leaders on their appointments, which will help deliver Iveco Group’s new energy future.”

Iveco Group N.V. (MI: IVG) is the home of unique people and brands that power your business and mission to advance a more sustainable society. The eight brands are each a major force in its specific business: IVECO, a pioneering commercial vehicles brand that designs, manufactures, and markets heavy, medium, and light-duty trucks; FPT Industrial, a global leader in a vast array of advanced powertrain technologies in the agriculture, construction, marine, power generation, and commercial vehicles sectors; IVECO BUS and HEULIEZ, mass-transit and premium bus and coach brands; IDV, for highly-specialised defence and civil protection equipment; ASTRA, a leader in large-scale heavy-duty quarry and construction vehicles; MAGIRUS, the industry-reputed firefighting vehicle and equipment manufacturer; and IVECO CAPITAL, the financing arm which supports them all. Iveco Group employs approximately 34,000 people around the world and has 28 manufacturing plants and 29 R&D centres. Further information is available on the Company’s website www.ivecogroup.com

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New U.S. bill would appoint expert to monitor rights abuses in Xinjiang

Legislation introduced in Congress this week would provide new tools to hold Beijing accountable for its persecution of ethnic Uyghurs, including through the appointment of an expert on human rights violations in northwest China’s Xinjiang region.

The Uyghur Policy Act of 2021, introduced to the House on Tuesday by U.S. Representative Young Kim of California, calls for the State Department to appoint a Special Coordinator for Uyghur Issues, would require Uyghur language training for foreign service officers, and would see a Uyghur-fluent officer assigned to a U.S. diplomatic and consular mission in China.

If passed, it would also see the U.S. government develop a strategy with like-minded nations to pressure China to close its system of internment camps that are believed to have held some 1.8 million Uyghurs since 2017. The camps are part of a series of harsh government campaigns that China says are necessary to fight extremism and terrorism in the region, home to 12 million members of the ethnic group.

It would also allocate additional funding for U.S. soft power efforts, including reporting on the situation in Xinjiang, which Washington and the parliaments of some Western countries have said amount to genocide and crimes against humanity.

In introducing the bill, Kim described it as necessary to “address several shortcomings” in Washington’s response to rights abuses in the region, which she said include the subjecting of Uyghurs to forced sterilization, forced labor, brainwashing, and sexual violence.

“We must act now to leverage the U.S. soft power, garner international support for Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, and equip the State Department with the tools it needs to better respond to Xi Jinping’s genocidal campaign,” said the lawmaker, who serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation.

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Uyghur demonstrators protest against China, in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Credit: Reuters

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi added her voice in support of the legislation, which she called “a strong step in our continued work to counter the genocide of the Uyghur people.”

“This Congress remains bipartisan, bicameral, unbreakable in our commitment to shining a bright light on the persecution of the Uyghurs,” she said.

“With this legislation, we send a powerful signal to the Uyghur people: America sees you, we stand with you and we’re fighting with you. And we send a resounding message to Beijing: this genocide must end now.”

The bill, which has 50 bipartisan cosponsors, passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee in September 2021.

‘A matter of urgency’

Speaking to RFA Uyghur, Nury Turkel, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, welcomed the bill, calling the situation in Xinjiang “a matter of urgency, conscience, freedom and the future.”

“The world owes it to the Uyghur people to stop this genocide and hold these persecutors to account so that we can prevent atrocities that bad actors might commit on vulnerable ethno-religious groups like the Uyghurs,” he said.

Dolkun Isa, president of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, said the legislation would play a critical role in ending the persecution of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang by directly empowering the American government to use stronger measures in its dealings with China.

“The strong backing of Speaker Nancy Pelosi gives us high hope that it will pass,” he said, expressing confidence that the bill will receive support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

The Uyghur Policy Act is the fifth piece of legislation to be introduced in Congress in support of the Uyghur people. 

The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act were signed into law in 2020 and 2021, while the Uyghur Forced Labor Disclosure Act and the Resolution Condemning the Ongoing Genocide Against Uyghurs were passed in the House last year.

Translated by Alim Seytoff. Edited by Josh Lipes and Malcolm Foster.