Eva Dichand

Eva Dichand (née Kriebernegg, born 26 February 1973) is an Austria media manager, art collector and philanthropist. Since 2006, she is the publisher of the newspaper Heute. She serves as president of the university council of the Medical University of Vienna and as deputy chairwoman of the Albertina board of trustees. She has built up a significant collection of contemporary art. After graduating from the HTL Matura in Graz, she studied at the University of Economics in Vienna and graduated with a dissertation on real estate offshore models in Eastern Europe. For two years she practiced as a consultant at Roland Berger. After working in the private equity area at CA, she was employed by Unternehmens Invest AG (UIAG) and supported projects for companies such as Andritz AG, Wolford, ETM professional control GmbH, Bene AG and Palfinger. She got into the newspaper business through her husband, Krone editor-in-chief and publisher Christoph Dichand. For two years she headed the now discontinued monthly magazine Our City. Since 2005 she has been managing director of the free daily newspaper Heute and from 2006 also publisher.