Julia Jäkel
Non-Executive Director
Advisory Board Roles
Julia Jäkel is an executive with over 25 years of experience in media and tech industries and today serves as a non-executive director and advisor across Europe.
She is particularly engaged at the intersection of business, politics and society.
Julia Jäkel serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Munich Re and the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Until its delisting in 20024, she was a Non-Executive Director of Adevinta ASA, Europe's leading provider of digital marketplaces, and a member of the European Advisory Board of Google Cloud.
From 2013 to 2021, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Gruner + Jahr, one of the leading publishing houses in Europe. During this time, she also served as a member of the Bertelsmann Group Management Committee and chaired the Bertelsmann Content Alliance.
Most recently, together with the former Federal Ministers Thomas de Maizière and Peer Steinbrück and the former President of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court Andreas Voßkuhle, she co-initiated the "Initiative for a State Capable of Acting".
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