Hiltrud Werner
German business executive
Hiltrud Dorothea Werner (born 1966) is a German business executive. She is the lone woman on Volkswagen AG's Board of Management, serving as the head of integrity and legal affairs. As one of three women from East Germany to serve on the board of a company from Germany's DAX stock index, she is also a public advocate for equal pay and equal opportunity for women.
Early life and education
Werner was born in Bad Doberan, East Germany, on 16 April 1966. Both of her parents worked in church service: her father was a deacon in a nursing home and her mother was a secretary.
Werner graduated high school in Apolda, then completed an apprenticeship as a skilled worker in textile technology in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, in 1985. She studied "Mathematical Methods and Data Processing in Business" at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where she received a degree in economics in 1989.
Career
Werner began her career in 1991 as a project manager at the consulting firm Softlab GmbH in Munich, shortly after moving to West Germany. At the time, most women who had children did not work outside the home in West Germany, and out of the firm's 850 employees she was the only mother working full-time.
In 1996, Werner moved to BMW AG where she held various positions during her tenure including head of the IT department of BMW Bank, head of the BMW AG audit department for the United Kingdom and Ireland, and head of group internal audit.
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