Carolina Müller-Möhl is a Swiss founder, investor and philanthropist. Furthermore she is involved in more than a dozen boards.
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. From 2004 to 2012, she was a member of the board of directors of Nestlé S.A. Since 2008, she has been a board member of Orascom Development Holding, a leading developer of fully integrated destinations and since 2010, of Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), a major media group in Switzerland. In 2015, she became a board member of Fielmann in Germany, Europe's largest optician.
Carolina 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 education, compatibility of work and family life, promotion of a free market in Switzerland and philantropy in general. Currently, the Müller-Möhl Foundation supports more than 30 projects.
In order to provide a platform for the various issues, she regularly gets involved as a speaker, columnist and panel participant. Furthermore, she sits on various foundation and advisory boards that support the above causes.
In the area of education, she is, among other things, a committed member of Pestalozzi Foundation which provides scholarships for talented youth with limited financial means. She is a co-founder of Forum Bildung which brings as the only politically-neutral educational organization in Switzerland, representatives from all education policy stakeholders to one table. She also sits on the Advisory Board of Professor Ernst Fehr´s Department of Economics at the University of Zurich, which is a leading European research center in economics.
With regard to Gender Diversity, she is, among other things, a member of the advisory board of Generation CEO, an organization that aims to promote talented female managers in the workplace and is an active supporter of The Gender Equality Project founded by Nicole Schwab.
Furthermore, Müller-Möhl engages on the advisory board of the Swiss Management Association, the Board of Trustees of the renowned Swiss think tank, Avenir Suisse and sits on the advisory board of the Swiss Economic Forum.
After finishing her secondary education at the international boarding school Schloss Salem in Germany, Müller-Möhl studied Political Science, History and Law at the Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, the London School of Economics (LSE), and at the Otto-Suhr Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she graduated as Political Scientist. She also attended various trainings at the EuropaInstitute at the University of Basel.
In recognition of her success and her philanthropic engagement, the World Economic Forum (WEF) selected her as a Young Global Leader in 2007. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bertelsmann-Foundation in Germany.
