Katharina Reimer
Executive Director, Karen Leung Foundation
Ms Katharina Reimer is the Executive Director of the Karen Leung Foundation (“KLF”), a Hong Kong based registered charity which works to save lives in Asia by raising awareness of gynaecological cancers, educating women to increase rates of early detection and ensuring that women in treatment have access to optimal medical care. Miss Reimer leads all aspects of the Foundation’s strategy & development, fund-raising and operations. She is also a Founding member of the APAC HPV Coalition, a think tank which aims to advance the awareness, prevention and treatment of HPV-related disease.
Katharina is a passionate advocate for social change and has been heavily involved in supporting several charities and philanthropic causes across Asia and acted as strategic media advisor to a number of public sector organizations in the Middle East and Africa in the earlier parts of her career. Since arriving in Hong Kong in 2004, she has led & supported initiatives and charities that foster positive social change to advance female empowerment such as 100Women in Finance and Asian University for Women HK Foundation amongst others.
Katharina holds a Bachelor degree from the University of West of England (Bristol, England) and a Master in Economics from the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She has lived in over 20 countries and is fluent in three languages. She currently lives with her husband and their two children in Hong Kong.