Katharina Kriston

Member since October 2025

Personal information

  • Born: 1972 in Hannover
  • Nationality: German
  • Place of residence: Hamburg

Occupation and career

  • Since December 2017: Head of Office / Senate Director of the Central Office, Budget Officer and CDO at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Innovation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  • 2014 – 2017: Head of Office / Senate Director of the Central Office in the Ministry of Justice of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  • 2012 – 2014: Deputy Head / Senior Ministerial Councillor of the Department of Regional Planning, Human Resources and Budget at the State Chancellery of Schleswig-Holstein
  • 2008 – 2012: Deputy Head / Senior Ministerial Councillor of the Department of European, Baltic and North Sea Affairs in the Ministry of Justice, Labour and Europe and in the State Chancellery of Schleswig-Holstein
  • 2005 – 2008: Head of the Minister's Office in the Ministry of Justice, Labour and Europe of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
  • 2001 – 2005: Judge at the Regional Court

Education

  • 1992 – 1998: Studied law at the Universities of Tübingen, Geneva/Switzerland, and Humboldt University Berlin, first state examination
  • 1998 – 2000: Legal clerkship, second state examination in Hamburg

Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards

  • None

Memberships in comparable supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises

  • ReGe Hamburg Projektrealisierungsgesellschaft mbH1

Other significant activities alongside the supervisory board mandate

  • None

1 Affiliated companies of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (excluding the HHLA Group)