The impact of COVID on women's careers

Magdalene Rosenmöller is senior lecturer in the Department of Production, Technology and Operations Management. She teaches the second-year MBA elective course on health sector management and is also a lecturer in the executive education department. She lectures at a number of other schools and institutions in Europe, Latin America and Asia, including the China European International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai.She holds a Ph.D. in health policy from the University of London, UK; an M.D. from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France, and an MBA from IESE Business School, Spain.

Rosenmöller gained valuable executive experience when she worked as a health economist in the World Bank’s Latin American and Caribbean Region for two years (2000-2002). Having Frequently served as an expert consultant on different assignments for the European Commission (health research and health policy) and the European Parliament, she has extensive experience in health policy and health research issues in Europe, particularly within the new Member States. She is currently in charge of the scientific coordination of the EC FP6 SSP research project on patient mobility in Europe (www.europe4patients.org) and previously served as expert evaluator on the Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI).

She is a member of several international organizations including the European Health Member Association (EHMA), on whose board she served for a period. She is the editor/co-editor of several publications, the most recent being the book Patient Mobility in the European Union. Learning from Experience (May 2006). She was recently appointed to the editorial boards of the EU Public Health Portal and the newly-created Journal of Healthcare Management and Marketing.

Karolina Korth is a trained psychologist with passion for innovation and has over 10 years of experience in transformation in multinationals. She has a wealth of experience in corporate innovation and business development in healthcare and smart cities. Currently, she is Chief Digital Officer and Head of Strategy at Siemens Mobility South West Europe. Karolina is also a co-founder of Health 2.0 Kuala Lumpur and the FeMale Voice of Mobility – movement to empower women in male dominated industries. She speaks regularly at conferences targeting digital transformation and gives lectures at business schools and universities. 

Katrina Walker is the founder and CEO of CodeOp, an international tech school on a mission to lead the charge in transforming the face and culture of tech worldwide.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Katrina immigrated to Barcelona in 2016 to explore the rising tech scene from a data science perspective. Katrina comes from a multidisciplinary background starting first as a social worker for the largest provider of reproductive health services in the United States. She has carried out social research with institutes such as the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Ber'Sheva Israel as well as presented on "Pedagogy and Postmodernism" at the University of Florence, Italy.

In 2017 she worked at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, during which she carried out a proof of concept for their pilot social analytics team. Prior to launching Barcelona's first coding school for women, trans and nonbinary people, she worked on the central data science team at eDreams. 

Since launching CodeOp almost two years ago, CodeOp has trained women between the ages of 18-45 from over 40 different countries worldwide in product management, data analytics and full stack development as well as launched a campus in Malaysia. They are back by 23 investors and will be expanding to LatAm this year.