Awards & Recognition
★First female leader in SPD's 155-year history
★Baden-Badener Unternehmer-Gespräche Board of Trustees member since 2022
★Hermann Kunst Foundation Board of Trustees member
Notable Facts
→Director of Federal Employment Agency (BA) since 2022 - Germany's largest employment services organization
→Former Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (2013-2017)
→First female leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) 2018-2019
→Former SPD parliamentary leader in Bundestag
→Published author of political book 'Frau, gläubig, links' (2010)
→Introduced Germany's national minimum wage as Labour Minister
→President of Federal Posts and Telecommunications Agency (2020-2022)
→Regular speaker at major political and labor conferences