Uta Dammann

Uta Dammann (born 1966) is an German British Christian businesswoman and telecommunications expert who following a successful career in Europe made her name with groundbreaking projects in warzones.
Personal life
Dammann was born in Germany, to a German father and French mother and spent her early childhood in Germany. She attended to school in England and studied at the London School of Business and spent a large part of her life in and around London, England. She has one younger brother who is a desalination expert. Dammann is a keen sailor and has homes in London, England and Florida, USA. She is a practicing Christian and attends Hillsong church as well as churches belonging to the Association of Vineyard Churches.
Career
Travel and foreign cultures always held a strong interest for her and she has lived and worked on six continents and over thirty countries. She was appointed as a senior executive to projects in countries as diverse as China, Russia, Azerbaijan and more recently Iraq (from 2007). Dammann credits the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity at St.Peter,Vere Street, London with introducing her to business as a mission. This directly lead her to establishing a telecommunications company in Iraqi Kurdistan and later in Baghdad, Iraq.
Dammann gained patronage and support from many well known public figures for her work, her friendship with Canon Andrew White also known as the 'Vicar of Baghdad' allowed her to support the oldest and most persecuted Christian communities in the world in Iraq, while simultaneously running a telecommunications company from a fortified Church Compound 2012-2016 in the middle of the district of war-torn Baghdad instead of basing herself in the or international zone like other western companies. She often worked without any security what so ever, which led to a much publicized kidnapping in 2012. Dammann cites her escape to safety
Typical of Dammann's work is her clear empathy with many different cultures and keen emphasis on anti-corruption in challenging territories where those practices are widespread.
Dammann is a noted public speaker and often lectures on the plight of the Persecuted church as well as the Refugee Crisis affecting Europe right now. She continues to speak in the USA, UK Germany on Christianity in the workplace, in her the biggest mission field in the world as well as security risks presented by the rise of ISIS.
She continues her executive engagements as a program director for global advertising and technology companies such as O2 and Sir Martin Sorrell's.

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