Brigitte Mohn (née Scholz, born June 28, 1964) is a German

businesswoman A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the ...

and a member of the Mohn family that has a significant influence on

Bertelsmann Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA () is a German private multinational conglomerate corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the world's largest media conglomerates, and is also active in the service sector and ...

group and the

Bertelsmann Stiftung The Bertelsmann Stiftung is an independent foundation under private law, based in Gütersloh, Germany. It was founded in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn as the result of social, corporate and fiscal considerations. As the Bertelsmann Stiftung itself h ...

. Mohn is also chair of the 's executive board.

Life

Brigitte Mohn is one of three children of

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and

Reinhard Mohn Reinhard Mohn (29 June 1921 – 3 October 2009) was a German billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Under his leadership, Bertelsmann, once a medium-sized printing and publishing house, established in 1835, developed into a global media co ...

. After completing her secondary education in 1984, Mohn studied political science, art history and German philology at the universities of

Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. The town dates back to the 9th century, when its name was derived from the nearby ' castle. C ...

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

and

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...

. In 1993, she received her doctorate from the Witten-Herdecke University. In 2001, she completed an MBA at Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany, and the

Kellogg School of Management The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (also known as Kellogg) is the business school of Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1908, Kellogg is one of the oldest and most p ...

in Evanston, Illinois, United States.

Career

Brigitte Mohn began her career in 1993 as an editor at the

Kiel Institute for the World Economy The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Institut für Weltwirtschaft, or IfW) is an independent, non-profit economic research institute and think tank based in Kiel, Germany. In 2017, it was ranked as one of the top 50 most influential think ta ...

. Then she worked for Random House in the United States and Canada. From 1997 to 1998, Mohn was a management consultant at

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in Hamburg, Germany, before moving to Switzerland for her job at until 2000. In December 2001, Mohn was appointed chair of the executive board of the German Stroke Foundation, which was established by her mother, Liz Mohn, in 1993. After joining the

in 2002, Mohn was appointed to the management board at the beginning of 2005. She oversees programs covering health, communities and civil society, for example. In 2008, Mohn took a significant role at Bertelsmann group: She joined the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft, which controls the voting rights at the shareholders' meeting; additionally, she was appointed to the group's

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, where Mohn represents the sixth generation of the owner family.

Other activities

* German Startups Association, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2019) * Rhön-Klinikum, Member of the Supervisory Board (2002–2020)

Awards

* 2009: Ethics in Business Award * 2018: Erika Pitzer Prize

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mohn, Brigitte 1964 births Bertelsmann German mass media owners Living people Businesspeople from Stuttgart University of Augsburg alumni University of Münster alumni Kellogg School of Management alumni 20th-century German businesswomen University of Bamberg alumni German expatriates in Switzerland 21st-century German businesswomen