Katharina Hefter joined Boston Consulting Group in July 2007. She is the leader for the firm’s compliance, risk, and regulation work, and has more than ten years of compliance experience in financial institutions as well as industrial goods, health care, insurance, and other industries. Katharina is also an expert in large-scale transformation and change.

Katharina leads the BCG ESG, Compliance, and Risk Task Force in Germany and Austria. She specializes in compliance, ethics, and risk transformation programs ensuring effective and efficient compliance risk management as well as sustainable culture change. Her aim is to change the trajectory for clients by addressing regulatory standards and best practices, digital and data analytics levers, and organizational enablers. Katharina also leads Women@BCG for the European region (CEMA), as well as in Germany and Austria and drives the firm’s diversity agenda across Europe.

Before joining BCG, Katharina worked at ESCP Europe, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and Infineon. Katharina speaks English, French, and Spanish in addition to her native German.