[1][2][3] Mohn is also chair of the German Stroke Foundation [de]'s executive board.

[5][6] After completing her secondary education in 1984, Mohn studied political science, art history and German philology at the universities of Bamberg, Münster and Augsburg.

[9] Brigitte Mohn began her career in 1993 as an editor at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

[11][12] From 1997 to 1998, Mohn was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Hamburg, Germany, before moving to Switzerland for her job at Pixelpark [de] until 2000.

[17] In 2008, Mohn took a significant role at Bertelsmann group: She joined the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft,[18][19] which controls the voting rights at the shareholders' meeting;[20] additionally, she was appointed to the group's supervisory board, where Mohn represents the sixth generation of the owner family.