Helmut G.W. Panke (born 31 August 1946 in Fürstenwalde, East Germany) served as chairman of the board at BMW AG from May 2002 through August 2006.

Panke attended the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) from 1968, finishing his Diplom in 1972, and a Ph.D. in 1976. He was an AFS Exchange Student to the United States in 1964-1965.^{[citation needed]}

From 1976 to 1978, Panke was a researcher at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research and a lecturer at the University of Munich. From 1978 to 1982, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. In 1982, he started at his career at Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW).

Panke has served on the board of directors for Microsoft since November 11, 2003. He also serves on the boards of UBS AG, Singapore Airlines, and the supervisory board of Bayer AG.

The Panke is a small river in Brandenburg and Berlin.

It is 29 km in length with its source at Bernau bei Berlin, and in Berlin is a relatively well known tributary of the Spree, into which it enters close to the Weidendammer Bridge.

Several areas around Berlin and Brandenburg are named after the Panke, including Pankow and Panketal.

The Schmöckpfuhlgraben flows into the Panke.

Coordinates: 52°31′18″N 13°23′12″E / 52.521635°N 13.386595°E / 52.521635; 13.386595

Özcan Mutlu (born on January 10, 1968) in Kelkit, Turkey, is a Turkish-German Green Party politician. He is the Green Party’s Spokesman for education policy in the Berlin House of Representatives.

Mutlu lives in the Berlin district Kreuzberg since 1973 and received his naturalization in 1990. He finished his training as an information electrician at the TU Berlin from September 1985 to February 1989. Afterwards he studied electrical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin from 1989 to 1993 and graduated as engineer of communication and electronics. He combined an internship with a stay abroad in Omaha (USA). After this he worked in a telecommunication company as engineer from 1993 to 1999.

Özcan Mutlu is married and has two children.