Who's Where: Christopher Reitz appointed Director of Design at Alfa Romeo

Christopher Reitz has been appointed to the top job at Alfa Romeo, replacing Frank Stephenson as Director of Design.

A relative of Wolfgang Porsche, Christopher Reitz graduated from Art Center Europe in Switzerland and began his career at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg in 1993. Reitz joined Audi in Ingolstadt from 1996 to 1998, where he was in charge of Advance Design. He has participated in and coordinated projects for the 1997 VW Noah and 2001 Audi AL2 concepts and developed the interiors for models including the 1998 Volkswagen Lupo, 1999 Audi A2 and previous generation Audi A4 and A6.

In 1999 Reitz joined Nissan and worked in various roles, including studio chief designer and member of the Global Nissan Design Strategy. During his tenure he worked on the 2001 CrossBow, 2002 Micra C+C, 2003 Evalia and 2004 Nissan Qashqai concept cars. He later joined the Fiat Group and became the head of the Turin based carmaker's Styling Center in January 2005.

Having been appointed to the Design Director position at Alfa Romeo less than a year ago, we were interested to find out what the next step would be in Frank Stephenson's career; but he was not prepared to comment when we reached him on the phone.

By Eric Gallina