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| − | '''Katrin Suder''' has been State Secretary for the German Federal Ministry of Defence | + | '''Katrin Suder''' has been State Secretary for the German Federal Ministry of Defence from 2014 to 2018, when she resigned after it was found out she gave her former employer [[McKinsey & Company]] very lucrative and wasteful contracts. |
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| + | ==Career== | ||
| + | From the year 2000, Suder worked for the management consultancy [[McKinsey & Company]] and took over the leadership of company's Berlin office in 2007. She made a career as a consultant to the German and international IT industry and became director at McKinsey in 2010, where she dealt with diversity management, among other things. From 2009 to 2014 she was responsible for McKinsey's activities in the public sector. | ||
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| + | ==Consultancy scandal== | ||
| + | Suder was sworn in as an official State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense on August 1, 2014 with the task of reforming the armaments sector. During the time she worked there, her boss, defense minister [[Ursula von der Leyen]] was heavily criticized for massively overspending on consultancy firms without any good defense outcomes, including from McKinsey & Company. | ||
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| + | At her own request, she resigned from the position of State Secretary in April 2018. For her farewell, Minister von der Leyen awarded the Bundeswehr Cross of Honor in gold. In August 2018, Suder took over the chairmanship of the newly founded ten-member [[Digitalrat|digital council]] of the German government. | ||
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| + | In 2015 she became a member of the board of trustees of the [[Hertie School]], a Berlin business school. | ||
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| + | ==Bilderberg in official capacity== | ||
| + | In 2015, she participated in the 63rd Bilderberg conference in Telfs-Buchen in Austria. Contrary to the previous practice of participants, to state that the conference participation was unofficial and private, the German Federal Ministry of Defense announced that [[Ursula von der Leyen]] had attended the conference on business and given a lecture on the European security strategy, so that Katrin Suder thereby also participated in the conference on official business.<ref>http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2015/06/warum-war-von-der-leyen-bei-bilderberg.html</ref> | ||
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 Katrin Suder     (civil servant, consultant) | |
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| Born | 27 September 1971 Mainz, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | RWTH Aachen University, Ruhr University Bochum |
| Member of | Banned from Russia 2015, Macro Advisory Partners/Board |
State Secretary for the German Federal Ministry of Defence under Ursula von der Leyen. Quit in 2018 after it was found out they heavily overspent on wasteful consultancy services from her former employer McKinsey & Company, without any good defence outcomes. | |
Katrin Suder has been State Secretary for the German Federal Ministry of Defence from 2014 to 2018, when she resigned after it was found out she gave her former employer McKinsey & Company very lucrative and wasteful contracts.
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Career
From the year 2000, Suder worked for the management consultancy McKinsey & Company and took over the leadership of company's Berlin office in 2007. She made a career as a consultant to the German and international IT industry and became director at McKinsey in 2010, where she dealt with diversity management, among other things. From 2009 to 2014 she was responsible for McKinsey's activities in the public sector.
Consultancy scandal
Suder was sworn in as an official State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense on August 1, 2014 with the task of reforming the armaments sector. During the time she worked there, her boss, defense minister Ursula von der Leyen was heavily criticized for massively overspending on consultancy firms without any good defense outcomes, including from McKinsey & Company.
At her own request, she resigned from the position of State Secretary in April 2018. For her farewell, Minister von der Leyen awarded the Bundeswehr Cross of Honor in gold. In August 2018, Suder took over the chairmanship of the newly founded ten-member digital council of the German government.
In 2015 she became a member of the board of trustees of the Hertie School, a Berlin business school.
Bilderberg in official capacity
In 2015, she participated in the 63rd Bilderberg conference in Telfs-Buchen in Austria. Contrary to the previous practice of participants, to state that the conference participation was unofficial and private, the German Federal Ministry of Defense announced that Ursula von der Leyen had attended the conference on business and given a lecture on the European security strategy, so that Katrin Suder thereby also participated in the conference on official business.[1]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2015 | 11 June 2015 | 14 June 2015 | Austria Telfs-Buchen | The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria |
| Munich Security Conference/2015 | 6 February 2015 | 8 February 2015 | Germany Munich Bavaria | "400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts." |
| Munich Security Conference/2016 | 12 February 2016 | 14 February 2016 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 52nd Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2017 | 17 February 2017 | 19 February 2017 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 53rd Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2022 | 18 February 2022 | 20 February 2022 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here |
| Munich Security Conference/2024 | 16 February 2024 | 18 February 2024 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
