Dr. Achleitner has spent over thirty years as an economist and educator. Dr. Achleitner is a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where she held the Chair of Entrepreneurial Finance between 2001 and 2020, and at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin. An accomplished academic with multiple honors and publications, Dr. Achleitner now acts primarily as a non-executive board director and venture investor. Dr. Achleitner currently sits on the Linde board of directors, is a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post (DHL Group), and is Vice-Chair of the Investment and Innovation Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance. Dr. Achleitner is also a member of several boards of nonpublic institutions and foundations such as the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) and the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), where she is Vice President. Previously, Dr. Achleitner served as a member of the Supervisory Board of MunichRE from 2013 until 2024, the board of directors of Deutsche Börse from 2016 until 2019 and was a member of the board of directors of Engie from 2012 until 2019. Dr. Achleitner received her doctorates in business administration as well as law from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland. After a brief career as a management consultant with McKinsey, Dr. Achleitner held the Chair of Banking and Finance at the European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany from 1995 to 2001. Dr. Achleitner has served on multiple commissions for the German, Bavarian and Swiss governments, as well as for the EU commission and various World Economic Forum groupings.