Klesper Birgit

Birgit Klesper is Senior Vice President, Group Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, at Deutsche Telekom AG in Bonn, Germany. She joined the company in 2006 and held various positions in Corporate Communications, Future Work, Transformational Change and Human Resources, among others. Prior to that, she was the Spokeswoman of the Wella Group and responsible for Corporate Communications. With the acquisition of Wella AG by Procter & Gamble in 2004, Birgit Klesper took on additional tasks in the corporatecommunications of the American group. Other stations in her professional career include managing the Press and Information Department at Tchibo Coffee Company in Hamburg and management positions in corporate communications at Philip Morris GmbH. Birgit Klesper is a honorary Chairwoman of the board of “econsense” (Forum for Sustainable Development of German Businesse.V.) and “Global e–Sustainability Initiative”. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of “Aktion Deutschland Hilft” (ADH) and of the “German CSR–Forum”. In addition, she is engaged in the Advisory Council of the sustainability platform “Nachhaltig.digital”.