Brigitte Mohn

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

In December 2001, Mohn was appointed chairwoman of the executive board of the German Stroke Foundation, which was established by her mother, Liz Mohn, in 1993. After joining the Bertelsmann Stiftung 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.

Brigitte Mohn began her career in 1993 as an editor at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Then she worked for Random House in the United States and Canada. 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.

Brigitte Mohn is one of three children of Liz and Reinhard Mohn. After completing her secondary education in 1984, Mohn studied political science, art history and German philology at the universities of Bamberg, Münster and Augsburg. 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 in Evanston, Illinois, United States.

Brigitte Mohn (born June 28, 1964 as Brigitte Scholz in Stuttgart-Degerloch, Baden-Württemberg) is a German entrepreneur and a member of the Mohn family that has a significant influence on Bertelsmann group and the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Mohn is also chairwoman of the German Stroke Foundation [de] 's executive board.