Leadership

Judith Hartmann is the Chief Financial Officer of Bayer AG. From 2022 to 2026, she was an Operating Partner at Sandbrook Capital, a private investment firm focused on transforming energy infrastructure. From 2015 to 2022, she was Deputy CEO and Group Chief Financial Officer of ENGIE S.A., a French multi-national utility company operating in the fields of electricity generation, energy transportation and distribution and energy services. She was the interim Co-CEO in 2020. She held P&L responsibility for the North American and UK/Ireland business units and oversaw Procurement and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Prior to ENGIE, Ms. Hartmann served as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Board of the international media and services corporation Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that, she served in a number of financial and operational roles at General Electric since 2000 in the US, Latin America and Europe, including at Global Service, GE Healthcare Clinical Systems, GE Water Europe, Middle East & Africa, GE Healthcare Latin America and GE Germany. Before that, she held positions in The Walt Disney Company and Transport Canada. Ms. Hartmann serves on the Board of Directors of Ørsted A/S. She was a Non-Executive Director of Unilever, Suez, Electrabel, International Power, RTL Group, Penguin Random House and Gruner + Jahr. She holds a PhD in Economics (Hons) and an MBA from the WU University of Business Administration and Economics.