Esther Hackl

Dr. Esther Hackl was born in Linz, Austria, in 1982. From 2001 to 2005, she studied law at the University of Vienna, where she also obtained a degree in political science 2009. Dr. Esther Hackl finished her doctoral studies in law at the University of Vienna in 2012. From 2010 to 2011, Dr. Esther Hackl completed postgraduate studies (LL.M.) at Harvard Law School in the United States. Dr. Esther Hackl started her professional career in 2011 in the corporate department of the Frankfurt office of the American law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. In 2013, she switched to the Frankfurt capital markets team of the British‐German law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Since 2019, Dr. Esther Hackl has been the General Counsel of the Düsseldorf fintech company auxmoney GmbH. In this function, she has furthermore been a member of the committee for legal questions & Europe of the association of German lending platforms (Verband deutscher Kreditplattformen e.V.) since 2020. Since 2020, Dr. Esther Hackl has been the chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Knaus Tabbert.