Brigitte Mohn is a member of the Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the German Stroke Foundation. She studied political science, art history and German philology at the universities of Bamberg, Munster and Augsburg, earning a Master of Arts in 1991 and subsequently a doctorate. In 2001 she received an MBA from the Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz and the Kellogg Institute in the United States. Her career has included positions with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy; Bantam, Doubleday and Dell Publishing in New York; McKinsey in Hamburg; and Pixelpark in Switzerland.
From 2001 to 2014 she has served as Chair of the German Stroke Foundation’s Executive Board. After this, she assumed the Chair for the Board of Trustees of the Stroke Foundation. She has been heading the Health Program at the Bertelsmann Stiftung since 2001 and has been a Board Member of this foundation since 2005. Within the lifetime of her work in the Bertelsmann Stiftung she co-founded the social businesses e.g. “Phineo”, “Weisse Liste” and “Zivilgesellschaft in Zahlen”. In the area of Impact Investing, she was actively involved in the establishment of the independent Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG, 2015), a successor of former G8 Taskforce for Social Impact Investment under UK presidency.
Aside from her duties with the Bertelsmann Stiftung and German Stroke Foundation, Brigitte Mohn is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Bertelsmann Management SE, the Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and of the Rhoen-Kinikum AG and Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of PHINEO gAG as well as a member of the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbh.
