Hiltrud Werner

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Hiltrud Dorothea Werner (born April 16, 1966 in Bad Doberan ) is a German manager and executive . Since February 1, 2017, she has been responsible for the Integrity and Legal Affairs division on the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG .

Professional background

Hiltrud Werner's father was a deacon . She grew up in Bad Doberan and from 1971 in Apolda and completed her training as a skilled worker for textile technology in Mühlhausen / Thuringia in 1985 with a high school diploma and initially worked as a skilled worker for textile technology.

She then studied at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Mathematical methods and data processing in business and received in 1989 a degree in Diploma - Economist .

After completing her studies , she began her professional career in 1991 as a project manager for process optimization at Softlab GmbH in Munich . In 1996 she moved to BMW AG . There she completed an international management trainee program and then worked at BMW Bank GmbH as a department head. In 2000 she switched to corporate auditing and in 2003 took over the management of the BMW audit department for Great Britain and Ireland with global responsibility for the brands Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and MINI . After returning from the UK in 2008, she became Head of Corporate Audit Financial Services.

As of 2011, she was responsible for auditing at MAN SE as Chief Audit Executive ; in 2014 she moved to ZF Friedrichshafen AG and took over the management of auditing.

On January 1, 2016, Hiltrud Werner took over the management of Group Audit at Volkswagen AG .

From February 1, 2017, she was appointed to the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, Integrity and Legal Division. In this role she followed Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt .

Hiltrud Werner has been a member of the Audi AG Supervisory Board since 2017 . In 2018 she took on additional supervisory board mandates at the corporate brands Porsche AG and Seat SA as well as the Traton Group , under which the truck division of Volkswagen is combined with the brands MAN and Scania .

Work on the board

As part of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, Hiltrud Werner is responsible for the Integrity and Legal Division. She is responsible for topics such as compliance organization, risk management, data protection, corporate governance and integrity management worldwide. Your job is to establish an ethical culture in the company.

Hiltrud Werner is the only woman on the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG and the first East German.

Personal

Hiltrud Werner is married and has two grown children.

engagement

According to her own statements, her origin from East Germany played an important role for her. When she moved to West Germany after reunification , she was exposed to open hostilities because of her origins. For her decision to work full-time as the only mother in a company with 850 employees in her first job in West Germany, she often received incomprehension.

Hiltrud Werner advocates diversity and the empowerment of women in companies. She calls for equality and equal pay.

She is part of the Women Leaders Global Forum and appears regularly as a speaker at various discussion forums, such as B. at Gender & Tech. New ideas for a more diverse future for the Goethe-Institut .

As part of the Women Corporate Directors in the 2019 Thought Leadership Commission, she is committed to greater diversity at board level.

Hiltrud Werner was speaker at the Fortune Most Powerful Women International Summit in London in 2019 .

Hiltrud Werner received various awards for her commitment, such as B. in 2019 the Mentor Award of the Year for Advancement of Women in Compliance.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ organs. Volkswagen AG, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Barmettler: VW manager: "Diesel scandal employs thousands of people". In: Handelszeitung. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Martin Murphy, Volker Votsmeier, Markus Fasse: Hohmann-Dennhardt leaves VW Board of Management. In: Handelsblatt. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ Hiltrud Dorothea Werner. Goethe Institute, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ VW board member Hiltrud Werner in Davos: "We are looking for our role in society". In: NTV. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Volkswagen's new CEO promises a more ethical culture . Associated Press, May 2018.
  7. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Nezik: Why so few East Germans make careers. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Anne Hähnig: Hiltrud Werner: "In the beginning I thought it was crazy ". In: Zeit Online. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Sven Heitkamp: Woman, East German, still way up. In: Saxon newspaper. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Nezik: Why so few East Germans make careers. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Joe Miller: Mopping up Dieselgate: The boss transforming Volkswagen. In: BBC. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Gender & Tech. In: Goethe Institute. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  13. ↑ 2019 WCD Thought Leadership Commission. In: Woman Corporate Directors. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  14. ^ FORTUNE MPW International Summit London - Speakers. In: Fortune Conferences. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Women in Compliance Awards - 2019 Winners. In: C5 Online. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Hiltrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Hiltrud Dorothea (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Doberan