Fashion / Retail Executive
London, United Kingdom

Viktoria Niederhofer has almost 15 years of fashion and retail experience. She has worked with some of the largest names in retail fashion across both European and US markets including Saks Fifth Avenue, NET-A-PORTER. and Harvey Nichols.

In addition to senior buying roles, Viktoria has extensive change management and business strategy experience. As the Executive Director at Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH, one of the largest German department store chains, she worked closely with the CEO on a complete organizational restructure spanning five years.

Viktoria has a BA (Hons) in Fashion Management from the University of the Arts in London. During this time, she gained experience at Harper’s Bazaar in New York City, Marni in Milan as well as Departmenstore Quartier 206 in Berlin.

Outside of the corporate world, Viktoria is passionate about children. As a UK certified childminder, she is involved with the Rainbow Trust, a children’s charity which focuses on helping families with seriously ill children.

Viktoria is the mother of two children and four stepchildren. She loves sunshine, long dinner parties, country music and hopes to learn to play the guitar. She is married to Bernd who gave her a guitar for Christmas.

Fellow: Bernd Ondruch