Monika Lessl

Biography

Monika Lessl is Executive Director of the Bayer Foundation with a focus on Science&Social Innovation and Senior Vice President at Bayer AG. At Bayer she heads Corporate R&D and Social Innovation. In her role she leads strategic R&D across Bayer`s Pharma, Crop Science and Consumer health divisions and is responsible for Bayer`s global societal engagement. She is a member of Bayer’s Global R&D Executive Committee and the Global Medical and Regulatory Governance committee. Her focus is to drive innovation and societal transformation for a sustainable future. Next to her research work she published a number of articles on collaborative innovation, entrepreneurship and business transformation in leading journals like Harvard Business Review. She has been ranked by the Handelsblatt as Top100 women in Innovation and together with her team got finalists of the Master of Reinvention Award of the London Business School” in 2018 and received the The best Innovation team award by Fast Company 2020