Shalini Saxena-Leske

Shalini Saxena-Leske is the interim Administrative Director of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), a role she took up on 1 July 2026, succeeding Ursula Weyrich. She joined the DKFZ in 2016 and has headed its Legal Department since 2018, also serving as Data Protection Officer. Earlier in her career she worked at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and served as a national expert at the European Commission in Brussels.