Brigitte Mohn
German businesswoman and philanthropist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brigitte Mohn (née Scholz, born June 28, 1964) is a German businesswoman and a member of the Mohn family that has a significant influence on Bertelsmann group and the Bertelsmann Stiftung.[1][2][3] Mohn is also chair of the German Stroke Foundation's executive board.[4]
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| Born | Brigitte Scholz June 28, 1964 Stuttgart-Degerloch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
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Life
Brigitte Mohn is one of three children of Liz and Reinhard Mohn.[5][6] After completing her secondary education in 1984, Mohn studied political science, art history and German philology at the universities of Bamberg, Münster and Augsburg.[7][8] In 1993, she received her doctorate from the Witten-Herdecke University.[1] In 2001, she completed an MBA at Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany, and the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois, United States.[9]
Career
Brigitte Mohn began her career in 1993 as an editor at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.[10] Then she worked for Random House in the United States and Canada.[11][12] From 1997 to 1998, Mohn was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Hamburg, Germany, before moving to Switzerland for her job at Pixelpark until 2000.[8]
In December 2001, Mohn was appointed chair of the executive board of the German Stroke Foundation,[1] which was established by her mother, Liz Mohn, in 1993.[13][14] After joining the Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2002,[12] Mohn was appointed to the management board at the beginning of 2005.[15][16] She oversees programs covering health, communities and civil society, for example.[17]
In 2008, Mohn took a significant role at Bertelsmann group: She joined the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft,[18][19] which controls the voting rights at the shareholders' meeting;[20] additionally, she was appointed to the group's supervisory board, where Mohn represents the sixth generation of the owner family.[21][22]
Other activities
- German Startups Association, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2019)[23]
- Rhön-Klinikum, Member of the Supervisory Board (2002–2020)[24][25]
Awards
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