Dr rer nat Jutta Fedrowitz is a Senior Expert for Professional Development and Training at CHE. Her main areas of work include designing and delivering a wide range of professional development programmes for leaders in higher education. These include the workshop “Cooperation and Strategy in Tandem” for university presidents/rectors and chancellors (since 2016), the programme “Leadership as an Opportunity” to expand the skills of academic vice-presidents and vice-rectors (since 2012), and the certificate programme “Faculty Management” (since 2010). She is also involved in international projects, including the “International Deans’ Course” (since 2006) in cooperation with the DAAD, the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) and Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, as well as the HELM Ethiopia and EtHELP programmes for GIZ (2016–2021).

Dr Fedrowitz has been working at CHE since 1994 and at CHE Consult from 2007 to 2009. Prior to that, she was a project lead at the Wissenschaftszentrum NRW. After completing her PhD, she headed a biochemical basic research laboratory at a company in the food industry.

She studied Chemistry and Biology for lower and upper secondary school teaching (Sekundarstufe I and II), as well as English and Philosophy, at Bielefeld University, and subsequently earned a PhD in Biochemistry.

Since 2010, she has been a certified corporate trainer specialising in higher education.