Carolina Müller-Möhl (born in 1968 from Zurich) studied, after finishing her secondary education at the international boarding school Schloss Salem in Germany, Politics, History and Law at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, the London School of Economics, and at the Otto-Suhr Institut at Freie Universität Berlin, where she graduated as Political Scientist. She also attended various trainings at the Europa Institute at the University of Basel.
Since 2000, Carolina Müller-Möhl has managed and presided over the Müller-Möhl Group, a Single Family Office that actively manages the family’s investments. She was a member of the Board of Directors of Nestlé S.A. from 2004-2012. Since 2010, she has been a Board member of Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), a major media group in Switzerland and, since 2008, Orascom Development Group Holding (Orascom Development), which is promoted as a leading international town developer committed to the highest sustainable environmental practices.
Müller-Möhl is highly committed to address socio-political causes, and brings her efforts under the Müller-Möhl Foundation that she founded in 2012. The focus of the foundation is on gender diversity, education and strengthening of liberal economic policies and philanthropy in Switzerland. Furthermore, she sits on more than a dozen foundation and advisory boards that support the above causes.
For instance, Carolina Müller-Möhl sits on the advisory board of the Swiss Economic Forum, the executive committee of the Swiss Management Association and the foundation board of the renowned Swiss think tank Avenir Suisse as well as the board of trustees of the internationally active Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany.
In the field of education, Carolina Müller-Möhl is, amongst others, a member of the advisory board of Prof. Ernst Fehr’s Department of Economics at the University of Zurich, the University of St. Gallen, the Zurich University of the Arts, and of the foundation board of the Pestalozzi Foundation. With the objective to promote female talent, she is a member of the advisory board of Generation CEO and of the foundation board of the MBA for Women Foundation. Finally, as a member of the advisory board, she actively supports EDGE, the leading global assessment methodology and business certification standard that helps companies to create an optimal workplace for women and men.
In order to provide a platform for the various concerns, Carolina Müller-Möhl regularly gets involved as a speaker, panelist and columnist.
In recognition of her success and her philanthropic commitment, the World Economic Forum (WEF) nominated her as a Young Global Leader in 2007.