Brigitte Mohn

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 and the Bertelsmann Stiftung.^[1][2][3] Mohn been a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung executive board since 2005, where she is responsible for the health, sustainable communities, digitalization and common good programs.

Brigitte Mohn
Mohn in 2016
Born	Brigitte Scholz (1964-06-28) June 28, 1964 (age 61) Stuttgart-Degerloch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Board member of	Bertelsmann Stiftung (Chairwoman of the Executive Board) Bertelsmann (Member of the Supervisory Board) German Stroke Foundation (Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees)
Parents	Reinhard Mohn (father) Liz Mohn (mother)

Life

Brigitte Mohn is one of three children of Liz and Reinhard Mohn.^[4][5] After completing her secondary education in 1984, Mohn studied political science, art history and German philology at the universities of Bamberg, Münster and Augsburg.^[6][7] 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.^[8]

Career

Brigitte Mohn began her career in 1993 as an editor at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.^[9] Then she worked for Random House in the United States and Canada.^[10][11] From 1997 to 1998, Mohn was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Hamburg, Germany, before moving to Switzerland for her job at Pixelpark [de] until 2000.^[7]

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.^[12][13] After joining the Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2002,^[11] Mohn was appointed to the management board at the beginning of 2005.^[14][15] She oversees programs covering health, communities and civil society, for example.^[16]

In 2008, Mohn took a significant role at Bertelsmann group: She joined the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft,^[17][18] which controls the voting rights at the shareholders' meeting;^[19] additionally, she was appointed to the group's supervisory board, where Mohn represents the sixth generation of the owner family.^[20][21]

Other activities

• German Startups Association, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2019)^[22]
• Rhön-Klinikum, Member of the Supervisory Board (2002–2020)^[23][24]

Awards

• 2009: Ethics in Business Award^[25][26]
• 2018: Erika Pitzer Prize^[27]