Christoph Heider has been the President of the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea (ECCK) since 2013. He is the former Chief Financial Officer for Bayer Korea Ltd. in Seoul and Regional Manager of Bayer AG Legal Entity Accounting Asia Pacific Division in Germany. Christoph had worked for Bayer Ltd. in Tokyo since 1997, having arrived in Japan as a teacher shortly before. Christoph graduated with an Intermediate Diploma in Economics from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany in 1988 before going on to complete his Diploma in Business Economics from the University of Mannheim in 1991. He then went on to finish a Postgraduate Program in Japanese at the University of Tübingen in Germany and Doshisha University in Japan in 1996. In 2016, Christoph received an Honorary Citizenship of Seoul. His other honorary assignments include being a board member of the Heider-Kober Foundation in Munich, Germany, and being a member of the European Domestic Advisory Group and the Korea-EU Civil Society Forum. He further holds a position as a board member of the European Business Organisation Worldwide Network (EBO WWN). Christoph currently lives in Korea with his wife, one daughter, and one son.