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1 Commonwealth of Independent States
Age distribution by Region
Regions < 35 35 – 44 45 – 54 > 54
Europe, C.I.S., Africa,
Middle East 28% 31% 29% 12%
Germany 24% 30% 33% 13%
Americas 29% 28% 28% 15%
U.S. 20% 28% 33% 19%
Asia, Australia 64% 25% 9% 2%
China 72% 22% 5% 1%
Siemens 35% 29% 25% 11%
Employees by Region
a Europe, C.I.S., Africa,
Middle East 60%
bGermany 32%
c Americas 23%
dU.S. 16%
e Asia, Australia 17%
fChina 8%
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 Our structure
agement level, we created the position of Chief Diversity Officer, which has been held by Jill Lee
since November . Drawing on her extensive international business experience, Ms. Lee is
ensuring that the global character and impressive diversity of our customer base and junior em-
ployees is also reflected in the composition of our top management.
Excellent education and ongoing professional training – Our global aspiration
When it comes to our employees’ educational background, our standards are high. Because only
well-educated, highly motivated people can create the leading-edge technologies and innovations
we will need to achieve profitable long-term growth in the future. In fiscal  alone,  percent
of our employees held university degrees, and , engineers worked at our company.
Outstanding, exceptionally well-trained technical employees are also vital for our company’s
success. That’s why we’re currently involved in developing training programs for a variety of oc-
cupational profiles, some of which are new. Our training programs – which are also used by other
companies – now focus not only on technical expertise but also, increasingly, on methods compe-
tence and soft skills.
As one of Germany’s largest private providers of vocational education, we’re currently training
some , secondary school graduates – including , for external partners. We’re also export-
ing our work-study system, which combines theory and practice, to our Regional Companies
around the world. Outside Germany, roughly , young people in more than  countries in
Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa are now enrolled in our training programs.
In a globalized world marked by rapid technological change and steadily increasing flows of
information, education is crucial for success. In  alone, we invested some € million (ex-
cluding travel expenses) in the continuing education of our employees and the systematic devel-
opment of their professional and personal skills – an average of € per employee.