Press Kit MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2022

Berlin/Gütersloh, 23 September 2022: Gender Equality Award for Astrid Teckentrup MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2022 – 21st Award Ceremony (2002 to 2022)

Astrid Teckentrup, Chairwoman of the Management Board of Procter & Gamble in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, is this year’s recipient of the 21st annual

MESTEMACHER MANAGER OF THE YEAR AWARD.

Astrid Teckentrup is a manager who makes personality development, trust-based cooperation as well as equality, diversity and inclusion her personal focal topics, and she has been working tirelessly on them for many years,” Prof Dr Ulrike Detmers, initiator of the award, said in praise of the award winner’s commitment.

The laureate’s commitment includes the focussed fostering of talent at Procter & Gamble: For example, thanks to years of training and the individual fostering of both men and women, it has been possible to establish equal gender distribution across all hierarchical levels. In the “LEAD Network Europe” network and with a series of events in the Frankfurt area, Astrid Teckentrup has also set impulses for equality across company boundaries.

In 2022, the jury of the MESTEMACHER FEMALE MANAGER OF THE YEAR PRIZE unanimously selects Astrid Teckentrup as the 21st laureate of this gender equality prize.

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21st prize winner MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2022 Astrid Teckentrup.

Selected impressions of the award ceremony MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2022

Gütersloh, 23 September 2022: (from left to right) Astrid Teckentrup, CEO of Procter & Gamble, receives the 21st MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR from initiator and Mestemacher boss, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers, at the Grandhotel ADLON Berlin. The renowned prize has been awarded annually since 2002 to promote top female managers in the male world of business. The sponsor is the industrial bakery Mestemacher. Photo credit: Renate Lottis

Berlin/ Gütersloh, 23 September 2022: (from left to right) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers, Initiator and Chairwoman of the MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR Selection Committee; Ekin Deligöz, Parliamentary State Secretary; Albert Detmers, Mestemacher Group, Managing Partner in Schittenhelm Vermögens-GmbH; Laureate MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2022 Astrid Teckentrup, Chairwoman of the Executive Board of Procter & Gamble; Laudator Simone Menne, President American Chamber of Commerce in Germany e. V. and Multi Supervisory Board member; keynote speaker Dr. h.c. Maria Freifrau von Welser, publicist and TV journalist of UNICEF Germany and committee member as well as Vice Chairman of the Lea Ackermann Foundation. Photo credit: Agency Baganz

Berlin/ Gütersloh, 23 September 2022: (from left to right) Albert Detmers, Mestemacher Group, Managing Partner in Schittenhelm Vermögens-GmbH; Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers, Initiator and Chairwoman of the Selection Committee MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR; Laureate MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2022 Astrid Teckentrup, Chairwoman of the Executive Board of Procter & Gamble. Photo credit: Agency Baganz

Berlin/ Gütersloh, 23 September 2022: (from left to right) Albert Detmers, Mestemacher Group, Managing Partner in Schittenhelm Vermögens-GmbH; winner of the MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2022 Astrid Teckentrup, Chairwoman of the Executive Board of Procter & Gamble; Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers, initiator and Chairwoman of the selection committee MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR. Photo credit: Renate Lottis