Julia Jäkel (born November 13, 1971) is a German business executive and publisher.

From 2012 to 2021, Jäkel was Chief Executive Officer of Gruner + Jahr and a member of the Bertelsmann Group Management Committee.

[7][8] In 1997, Jäkel completed the Bertelsmann Entrepreneurs Program and joined Gruner + Jahr, where she rose through the ranks.

At the beginning of her term, she discontinued the Financial Times Deutschland of which she had been a member of the founding team for five years.

[17][18] In 2023, Jäkel was appointed by Germany’s state governments as a member of an expert group advising on a reform of country’s public broadcasting.