Hiltrud Werner

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. 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,

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. head of the BMW AG audit department for the United Kingdom and Ireland, and head of group internal audit. In her role at Volkswagen, Werner oversees the compliance and integrity teams for Volkswagen and its 12 brands.

Werner is part of a small minority of women and East German business executives serving on the boards of German companies. She is the first East German and second woman ever to serve on the Volkswagen Group board of management. Volkswagen Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2019) European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Member of the International Advisory Council Goethe Institute, Member of the Business and Industry Advisory Board

Recognition In 2019, Werner received the "Mentor Award of the Year for Advancement of Women in Compliance" from C5 Communications.

Personal life Werner is married and has two children.