Brigitte Mohn

Mohn is one of six children of the media entrepreneur Reinhard Mohn, who died in 2009.^[4][5] Her mother, Liz Mohn, chairs the board of her own foundation, the Liz Mohn Stiftung.^[6]

After completing her secondary education (Abitur) in 1984, Mohn initially wanted to become a doctor,^[7] but decided to study political science, art history and German philology at the universities of Bamberg, Münster and Augsburg.^[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]

Brigitte Mohn began her career in 1993 as an editor at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.^[10] She then moved to the Bantam Doubleday Dell publishing group in New York City, where she headed the academic marketing department.^[11] She also worked in the children's book division of Random House and at the Canadian Doubleday book clubs.^[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 [de] until 2000.^[8]

Mohn entered foundation work at the end of 2000.^[13] From 2001 to 2014, she was chairwoman of the executive board of the German Stroke Foundation,^[1] which was established by her mother, Liz Mohn, in 1993.^[14][15] In 2014, she took over the chair of the board of trustees.^[3]

After joining the Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2002, where she was responsible for the health division,^[12] Mohn was appointed to the executive board at the beginning of 2005.^[16][17] She is responsible for the programs covering health, sustainable communities, digitalization, and the common good. On 1 August 2025, she took over as chairwoman of the executive board.^[18]

In 2008, Mohn joined the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft,^[19][20] which controls the voting rights at the shareholders' meeting;^[21] additionally, she was appointed to the group's supervisory board, where Mohn represents the sixth generation of the owner family.^[22][23]

• Phineo [de], Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board^[24]
• Stiftung RTL – Wir helfen Kindern, Member of the Board of Trustees^[25]
• Rhön-Klinikum, Member of the Supervisory Board (2002–2020)^[26][27]

• 2016: Honorary Prize for Social Entrepreneurship from Ernst & Young^[28]
• 2018: Ethics in Business Award of the International Association for Human Values (IAHV)^[29]
• 2018: Erika Pitzer Prize of the Willy Robert Pitzer Foundation^[30]

• Brigitte Mohn, Monika Kirschner (2005). Risiko Schlaganfall: kompetent vorbeugen, Alarmsignale erkennen, richtig handeln, Folgen vermeiden (in German). Köln: Egmont VGS. ISBN 3-8025-1696-6.
• Liz Mohn, Brigitte Mohn, Werner Weidenfeld, Johannes Meier (2006). Werte. Was die Gesellschaft zusammenhält (in German). Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung. ISBN 3-89204-908-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Brigitte Mohn (2010). "Es gibt Werte, die für mich gesetzt sind". In Stefanie Unger (ed.). Vertrauen ist gut: Werte in der Krise oder Krise der Werte? (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch. ISBN 978-3-89981-207-7.