DEIDRE BERGERVICE PRESIDENT

Journalist Deidre Berger is co-founder and partner of the Berlin-based Tikvah Institut gUG and executive board chair of the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Foundation. Previously she was the longtime director of the American Jewish Committee Berlin Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations and a former correspondent for National Public Radio. She has been engaged for many years with organizations and projects in areas such as Holocaust remembrance, democracy education, the combating of antisemitism and extremism, promotion of Jewish life, and intercultural and interreligious dialogue. In 2010, she received the Federal Cross of Merit for her services to German-Jewish relations.

BERTINA MARIA MURKOVIC

Former Chairwoman of the Works Council at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Hanover with a Master's degree in Sociology and Literature from the University of Hanover. She was a member of the Supervisory Board of VW AG from 2017 to 2022 and has been a member of the Presiding Committee of this body since 2020. After training as an office clerk, Bertina Maria Murkovic worked in various companies, including full-time at the trade, banking and insurance union. Parallel to her studies, she worked as a trainer for moderation, communication and labour law. After graduating, she worked as a specialist adviser to the works council at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. She has been a trained mediator since 2016. Bertina Maria Murkovic has been a member of the Industrial Union for Metalworkers (IGM) since 1972. Among other things, she has been involved in the union's educational and cultural work as well as in women's policy. She has been a member of the IGM Hannover delegates' assembly since 2006. From 2010 to 2022, she was a member of the local executive committee of the IGM Hanover branch.