Antje Schippmann

Co-founder and Managing Director of the Axel Springer Freedom Foundation

Antje Schippmann is the co-founder and managing director of the Axel Springer Freedom Foundation, a Berlin-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting democratic dissidents from authoritarian regimes.

Before launching the foundation, she worked as a journalist at Axel Springer publications, initially covering foreign policy at BILD, later serving in editorial leadership roles, including as managing editor at WELT’s Sunday edition.