Anne Kjær Riechert is CEO and co-founder ReDI School of Digital Integration. She is a 2006 graduate from KaosPilot in Denmark, a hybrid of a business and a design school. From 2006-2009, she worked as a corporate social responsibility consultant. In that capacity, she developed and implemented Samsung Electronics’ award-winning corporate social responsibility strategy for Scandinavia. 

In July 2010, Anne moved to Japan, where she spent 2 years researching open social innovation and received the prestigious Rotary Peace Fellowship. In 2012, she moved to Berlin to set up the Berlin Peace Innovation Lab, which is associated with Stanford University. The lab focuses on how technology is facilitating emerging and measurable social change toward global peace. Within three years it grew to be a 1700+ members strong community.

In 2015, in response to the refugee crises, Anne co-founded ReDI School of Digital Integration, a vocational training program teaching programming and tech skills to asylum seekers. As the CEO Anne is convinced that technology can break down barriers and bring people together to build new solutions to old problems. The idea of ReDI was sparked by the insight that amongst the refugee population there are incredible talents eager to learn and eager to contribute, who could help fill the 58.000 open IT jobs in Germany.
From the beginning, ReDI has been developed through co-creation between the Berlin and München tech community (incl. SAP, Facebook, Cisco, Google and Microsoft) and the ReDI students. The aim is to provide students with valuable digital skills and a strong network of tech leaders, mentors and alumni to help create new opportunities for all. ReDI is a non-profit social enterprise offering several 3-months IT-programs, creative workshops, tech-talks, innovation projects as well as short term summer courses. 
ReDI School has achieved tremendous impact thus far, with more than 380 students completing at least one course. This semester 225 students are enrolled in a course . The last survey conducted showed that almost 50% of the surveyed students were placed in paid internships or jobs. Furthermore, about 20% joined a university and 10% founded a company. Only 20% are currently looking for a job. The success stories have resonated with German and international media like CNN, BBC, The Guardian, Spiegel and Die Zeit. Several important visitors like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and former USA Ambassador to the UN Samantha Powell have visited ReDI School and exchanged perspectives with the students.