Eva Dichand
Eva Dichand (journalist, media executive) | |
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"Nightcap in Davos 2016". Eva Dichand on the right | |
Born | Eva Kriebernegg February 26, 1973 Graz |
Nationality | Austrian |
Alma mater | Economic University in Vienna |
Spouse | Christoph Dichand |
Member of | WEF/Young Global Leaders/2010 |
Interests | Roland Berger Strategy Consultants |
Austrian publisher of the largest medical online health portal Netdoktor. Married to the editor of Austria's largest newspaper. |
Dr. Eva Dichand is an Austrian media manager, art collector, philanthropist and deputy chairwoman of the Albertina Board of Trustees as well as managing director and publisher of the free daily newspaper Heute in Austria. Since 2012 she has owned the majority of the health portal Netdoktor, the largest medical online health portal, which she also heads as managing director. [1]
She was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. She is married to Christoph Dichand, the editor-in-chief of Austria's biggest newspaper.
Career
After graduating from high school in Graz, Dichand studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and completed her dissertation on off-shore real estate models in Eastern Europe. She worked as a consultant at Roland Berger for two years. After working in the private equity sector, she worked at Unternehmens Invest AG (UIAG) and supported projects for companies such as Andritz AG, Wolford, ETM professional control GmbH, Bene AG and Palfinger.
Through her husband, Krone editor-in-chief and publisher Christoph Dichand, she came to the newspaper business. For two years she ran the monthly magazine, Unsere Stadt, which has since been discontinued. Since 2005 she has been the managing director of the free newspaper Heute, and from 2006 she has also been the publisher. In 2015 she withdrew from the operational activities at Heute and spent a year in the USA with her husband and their three children in order to get to know the (mainly digital) media landscape there and also to intensify contacts in the field of contemporary art. In 2016, Eva Dichand sold the majority stake in the daily newspaper Heute (AHVV GmbH) to the listed Swiss group Tamedia.[2]
Eva Dichand was named Media Manager of the Year 2005 by the trade journal Der Österreichische Journalist. In addition, she is involved in social and cultural institutions and is a member of Rotary.
Since 2016 she has been a member of the International Council of the Metropolitan Museum, New York[3] and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since 2018 she has been the Chair of the University Council of the Medical University of Vienna.[4][5][6]
In 2020 the ÖVP Minister Karoline Edtstadler appointed her Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Albertina Museum in Vienna.
References
- ↑ https://apps.derstandard.at/privacywall/story/2000005472633/kobuk-was-heute-auf-wikipedia-getan-hat
- ↑ https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000043345696/eva-dichand-gibt-mehrheit-an-heute-bei-tamedia-einstieg-ab
- ↑ https://www.metmuseum.org/-/media/Files/About%20The%20Met/Annual%20Reports/2016-2017/Annual%20Report%202016-17.pdf
- ↑ https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/organisation/universitaetsleitung/universitaetsrat/
- ↑ https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/organisation/universitaetsleitung/universitaetsrat/
- ↑ https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/news/detailseite/2018/news-im-mai-2018/eva-dichand-neue-vorsitzende-des-universitaetsrates-der-meduni-wien/
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