Carolina Müller-Möhl

Carolina Müller-Möhl (born November 29, 1968 in Zurich ) is a Swiss investor and philanthropist . She is the founder and president of the Müller-Möhl Group and the Müller-Möhl Foundation, a member of the board of directors of Orascom Development Holding AG and the AG for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) and a member of the supervisory board of Fielmann AG . From 2004 to 2012 she worked as the Administrator of the Nestlé S.A. operates. In addition, she holds various foundation and advisory board mandates.

Life

After graduating from the international boarding school Schloss Salem in Germany , Carolina Müller-Möhl studied political science, history and law at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg , the London School of Economics (LSE) and at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University Berlin , where she graduated with an M.A. in Political Science. She also attended postgraduate courses at the Europa-Institut at the University of Basel , at Harvard Kennedy School and at Singularity University .

In 2000, Carolina Müller-Möhl founded the Müller-Möhl Group as a single family office to manage the investment portfolio of her fatally injured husband Ernst Müller-Möhl. Under her leadership, the portfolio was restructured, diversified and the risk significantly reduced. Despite the global crises (Internet bubble in 2001, financial crisis in 2008 and subsequent recession), the portfolio gained substantial value. Today the Müller-Möhl Group manages assets worth several hundred million Swiss francs.

For over ten years, Müller-Möhl has also been committed to socio-political issues. The focus of their engagement lies in the areas of education, gender diversity, promoting Switzerland as a business location and philanthropy in general. To organize these activities, she founded the Müller-Möhl Foundation in 2012, which she has chaired since then. Carolina Müller-Möhl is networked with people from business, politics and society in order to make their philanthropic concerns fruitful.

Müller-Möhl was the jury president of the Swiss Economic Award , the most important award for young entrepreneurs in Switzerland, and is a member of over a dozen advisory and foundation boards - including the Swiss think tank Avenir Suisse and the Pestalozzi Foundation . She is currently still on the advisory board or foundation board of the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich , the MBA for Woman Foundation and Insead Switzerland. She is also co-founder and co-president of the Education Forum, which launched the Swiss School Prize in 2012. In autumn 2013, she was also appointed to the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Board of Trustees . And she is on the advisory board of the Swiss think tank StrategyDialog21 .

Müller-Möhl is portrayed in the media as one of the most important women in the Swiss economy. From 2000 to 2007 she was a member of the board of Plus Orthopedics, from 2006 to 2008 of Kühne Holding AG and from 2004 to 2012 of Nestlé S.A. , where she played a key role in improving the representation of women on the Nestlé Board of Directors as a member of the Nomination Committee was. Today she is on the board of directors of the NZZ media group and Orascom Development Holding AG as well as on the supervisory board of Fielmann AG .

She regularly appears as a speaker, panelist and interview partner, writes book chapters and worked as a columnist for example in the Swiss edition of Die Zeit . Today she is a columnist for Annabelle and Women in Business .

nomination

In recognition of her success to date and her socio-political commitment, she was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2007.

Publications

• Entrepreneurship in the light of social responsibility. In: Tom P. Kümmeke, Mirjam Staub-Bisang, Werner Vogt (eds.): Family Office - Ways to Invest in Entrepreneurship. NZZ Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03823-805-8 , pp. 100-103.
• Swiss Giving Pledge !? Social commitment from an entrepreneur's perspective - a Swiss location analysis. In: Dominique Jakob (Ed.): Stiften und Gestalten. Helbling Lichtenhahn Verlag, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7190-3313-2 , pp. 75–82.

literature

• Beatrice Weder di Mauro : Carolina Müller-Möhl: Entrepreneur. In: Schweizer Illustrierte . No. 49/2001.
• Mirjam Staub-Bisang: Sustainable Investing for Institutional Investors. Wiley, Singapore 2012, ISBN 978-1-118-20317-0 , pp. 284-287.

Web links

• Websites of the Müller-Möhl Group and the Müller-Möhl Foundation
• Carolina Müller-Möhl on the Müller-Möhl Foundation website
• Carolina Müller-Möhls Zeit -columnen on the webpage of Zeit online
• Judith Wittwer: "Today I rarely have sleepless nights". In: Tages-Anzeiger . December 20, 2009 (interview)
• Peer Teuwsen: "Calli wants to do it herself". In: The time . May 24, 2012 (interview)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Board of Trustees: Carolina Müller-Möhl. In: MBA for Women Foundation website (CV), accessed February 7, 2017.
2. ↑ Martin Spieler: "Have reduced our appetite for risk." In: Handelszeitung . February 5, 2008 (interview), accessed April 25, 2013.
3. ↑ Alice Chalupny: Victory and Vekselberg. Rüffer and Rub, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-907625-54-5 , p. 146 ff.
4. ↑ ^{a b} The 300 richest in Switzerland. In: Balance . Issue 24, 2013, p. 64 (PDF; 720 kB).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Women in Business. Top 100 September 2011, p. 26.
6. ↑ Events | Müller Möhl Foundation. Retrieved December 28, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Advisory Board. Department of Economics at the University of Zurich , accessed on May 13, 2018 . 
8. ^ Carolina Müller-Möhl is a new member of the Bertelsmann Foundation's Board of Trustees. In: Bertelsmann Stiftung website (press release), accessed on September 27, 2013.
9. ↑ Who we are: Funding Advisory Board. In: Website StrategyDialog21. Retrieved March 11, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Stefan Barmettler: The Mightiest: Elite of Power. In: Balance . December 17, 2010, p. 60, accessed April 25, 2013.
11. ↑ Nestlé. Annual report 2010. p. 6 (PDF; 4.2 MB), accessed on April 29, 2013.
12. ↑ Women in management. , In: SchillingNews. Edition 2, 2010, p. 5, accessed on April 25, 2013 (PDF; 30.74 kB).
13. ^ Carolina Müller-Möhl. NZZ media group , accessed on May 13, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Board of Directors. ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Orascom Development Holding AG website , accessed April 25, 2013. 
15. ↑ Supervisory Board. In: Handelszeitung website , accessed on October 5, 2015.
16. ↑ Search in: Search for… Zeit columns by Carolina Müller-Möhl, available in: Zeit Online , accessed on April 25, 2013.
17. ^ Search in: Search for… Annabelle columns by Carolina Müller-Möhl, available in: Annabelle , accessed on October 5, 2015.
18. ^ Search in: Search for ... Women in Business columns by Carolina Müller-Möhl, available in: Women in Business , accessed on December 21, 2017.
19. ^ Five different people, five different paths. In: Roland Berger Strategy Consultants website (PDF; 2.57 kB). P. 6, accessed April 25, 2013.