Christine Boelsche

Christine Bölsche is an experienced leader of Digital , Data, and IT matters across the pharmaceutical, healthcare, life science, and chemical industries. Her sweet spot lies at the intersection of business and technology — where artificial and human intelligence come together to position organisations for the future. With strong entrepreneurial thinking and deep strategic insight, she shapes digital transformations with a focus on sustainable business growth, innovation, efficiency, and scalability. She combines technological excellence with organisational transformation, enabling companies to manage operations in a data-driven way, make faster decisions, establish digital products, and grow more resiliently. Her work delivers measurable impact and positions digitalisation, data, and technology as central drivers of competitiveness and long-term business success. She has worked as Chief Digital and Information Officer of a global business unit at Merck KGaA, where she was responsible for driving digital and data strategic transformations along the entire value chain.

As of 2025, she serves as Chief Digital and Information Officer at ESA. Here, she leads IT teams across all establishments, with a mandate to advance ESA’s “Federation of IT”, aligning technology, processes, and people to provide a resilient, scalable, and future-ready technological backbone for the agency.