Change in the chairmanship of the German AIDS Foundation

31.07.2018 13:34

Kristel Degener, who has a doctorate in law, will become Executive Chairwoman of the German AIDS Foundation on August 1, 2018. The previous managing director Dr. Ulrich Heide will retire on July 31, 2018.

“I am very pleased that we have Dr. We were able to recruit Kristel Degener as full-time executive chairwoman of the German AIDS Foundation. She will steer the fortunes of the foundation just as successfully as her full-time predecessor, Dr. Ulrich Heide,” said Reinhold Schulte, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German AIDS Foundation. "Miss Dr. Degener most recently worked as managing director at the State Association of Business Associations of North Rhine-Westphalia. With her as full-time chairman of the board, our foundation is ideally positioned to maintain and further expand its support services for people with HIV and AIDS in Germany and internationally.

Kristel Degener was born in Pärnu/Estonia in 1974. She studied law at the University of Cologne. She completed her studies in 2000 with the first state examination in law. After the subsequent legal preparatory service at the Aachen Regional Court, she passed the second state legal examination. She completed her doctorate in the field of matrimonial property law and received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Tartu/Estonia in 2016.

After her studies, she initially worked as a lawyer, and in 2006 she moved to the State Association of Business Associations of North Rhine-Westphalia eV (unternehmen nrw). In 2012 she became managing director there and most recently headed the “EU and International Social Policy” department as well as the unternehmen nrw liaison office in Brussels.