Birgitta Wolff (born 14 July 1965 in Münster[1]) is a German economist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

After her Habilitation at LMU, she taught at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (1999–2000), and became professor of business administration and international management at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.

In 2002, she spent a year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

She has been a visiting professor at universities in Ukraine, Brazil and China.

In 2014, she was elected as president of the Goethe University Frankfurt, and she held the office from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020.