Christian Tock Appointed New Board Chair of Luxinnovation

On Thursday 27 February 2025, the Board of Directors of the national innovation agency Luxinnovation unanimously voted to appoint its new board chair, Christian Tock, Deputy Director General for Industry, New Technologies and Research at the Ministry of the Economy.

As of 1 March 2025, Christian Tock will succeed Mario Grotz, appointed board chair in 2018, who will take over as CEO of Luxinnovation. Mario Grotz replaces Sasha Baillie, who will become the new Marshal of the Court on the same date.

Aged 45, Christian Tock has held several positions within the Ministry of the Economy, where he arrived in 2012 as an independent consultant before joining the New Technologies Department. In 2015, he was appointed Director of Sustainable Technologies before being promoted to Deputy Director General, New Technologies and Research in 2021.

Christian Tock knows Luxinnovation well. He joined the agency in 2010 as an R&D advisor, and in 2011, he took up the role as manager of the Luxembourg EcoInnovation Cluster dedicated to clean technologies.