Judith Zylla-Woellner was born in Eisenhuettenstadt/Germany in 1981. She studied Sociology, Psychology and Economics at the Free University in Berlin, at the Lund University in Sweden and at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge/UK. She received a German Diploma in 2008 and her MBA in 2012. Throughout her academic and professional career she has always been interested in the issue of women in management positions, particularly of women in Germany. She is married and lives in Berlin.