Gerhard Stahl (born in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany on 2 December 1950) is since August 2014 Professor at the Peking University HSBC Business School[1] in Shenzhen in China.
[3][4] Stahl was educated in his home city of Ludwigsburg and went on to graduate in economics at Technische Universität Berlin.
Stahl had his first professional post as an assistant to the chair of public finance at Technische Universität Berlin.
In this role, he specialised in EU policy preparation for the Bundesrat, the German legislative second chamber, and inter-regional cooperation projects.
In September 2002, Stahl was appointed director for consultative work at the European Committee of the Regions; he was Secretary-General of the CoR from 1 April 2004 until 2014, when he completed his second 5-year term of office (2009–2014).