Bernadette Schramm is a Founding and Managing Partner at Malao, which has the model to leverage commercial entertainment as a platform to inspire audiences worldwide and create positive social and environmental impact.
She formerly produced the Cambridge International Student Film Festival and coordinated the annual “Refugee Voices in Film” program, in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), launched at the Cannes Film Festival. As keynote speaker, she coordinated the Women in Cinema conference at the 16th Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh, having spoken the previous year on the “Importance of Self-Esteem for Women in Roles of Leadership”. Bernadette is an advocate for the importance of empowering new talent and building filmmaking capacity in emerging economies, such as Ethiopia, Mongolia and Bangladesh, bringing more representative stories and authentic voices to our global screens.
Bernadette graduated with a BA and MA degree in Management with Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge and started her career at the boutique strategy consultancy, CVA, working on corporate innovation projects between London, Paris and Berlin.