Curricula Vitae of Speakers

Ole von Beust

First Mayor Ole von Beust
President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
13.04.1955 Born in Hamburg
1971 Joined the CDU (Christian Democratic Union)
1973 Abitur, leaving certificate qualifying holder to enter university, (Walddörfergymnasium in Volksdorf)
1973 - 1975 Assistant to the CDU parliamentary group in Hamburg Parliament
1975 - 1980 Studied law in Hamburg
1977 - 1983 Chairman of the CDU Hamburg youth movement (Junge Union)
1978 1978 Elected to Hamburg Parliament (at the time the youngest member of the Parliament)
1980 1980 1st state examination in law
1983 2nd state examination in law
1983 Admitted to practise law
1992 Member of the board of the Hamburg CDU
1993 Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Hamburg Parliament
1998 of the Federal Board of the CDU
31 October 2001 Elected First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
7 May 2008 Elected First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Dr. Mathias Döpfner

Dr. Mathias Döpfner

Date of Birth: 15. January 1963
Since Jan. 2002 Chairman and C.E.O. of Axel Springer AG, Berlin
Since Nov. 2000 Member of the Management Board and Head of Newspapers of Axel Springer AG, Berlin
2000 – 2001 Member of the Management Board and Head of Electronic Media / Multimedia of Axel Springer AG, Berlin
1998 – 2000 Editor-in-Chief of “DIE WELT”, Berlin
1996 – 1998 Editor-in Chief of “Hamburger Morgenpost”, Hamburg
1994 – 1996 Editor-in-Chief of ”Wochenpost”, Berlin
1993 Assistant to the CEO of Gruner+Jahr, Hamburg
1992 Assistant to the Member of the Management Board and Head of International Affairs of Gruner+Jahr, Paris
1990 – 1992 Correspondent for “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“, Brussels
1988 – 1990 Managing Director of KulturKonzept, PR Agency, Munich
1982 – 1988 Author for “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and occasionally “Weltwoche” and ”Neue Zürcher Zeitung”
1991 doctorate
1987 M.A. Musicology, German and Theatrical Arts
Mandates
2008 Member of Executive Committee, WAN, Paris
2008 Member of the Board of Directors, RHJ International SA, Brüssel
2006 Member of the Board of Directors, Time Warner Inc., New York
2001 Member of the Board of Directors, dpa
Book Publications
2008 „Ernst Cramer: Ich habe es erlebt“, Axel Springer, (Editor)
2005 „Axel Springer. Neue Blicke auf den Verlag.“, Axel Springer (Editor)
1992 „Brüssel – das Insider-Lexikon“, Beck
1991 „Musikkritik in Deutschland seit 1945“, Lange
1986 „Erotik in der Musik“, Ullstein
1983 “Neue Deutsche Welle – Kunst oder Mode”, Ullstein
Awards and Honors
2008 Global Leadership Award, AICGS, New York
2008 Jerusalem Award, Zionist Organisation of Germany
2007 “Leo Baeck Medal”, Leo Baeck Institute, New York
2007 “Order of Merit of Berlin”, Senate of Berlin
2001 “Global Leader of Tomorrow“, World Economic Forum
2000 Journalism Award of German medium-sized businesses
2000 Journalism Award “Golden Pen”, Bauer Verlagsgruppe
1992 “Axel Springer Prize” for young journalists
Selected Memberships and Honorary Offices
IJP e.V.
Tönnissteiner Kreis
American Academy
ESMT
American Jewish Committee
Aspen Institute
Ben Gurion University

Mark Chang

Mark Chung

2007 to Present Managing Partner H|C Publishing GmbH & Co KG H|C Publishing acquires publishing catalogues in central and eastern Europe in cooperation with a financial partner.
2006 to Present Chairman of the Board VUT e.V. Elected to head German association of independent music companies in September 2006. VUT represents some 1,200 members (independent music labels, publishers and producers) and is a member of IMPALA, the European independent music companies association.
2005 to Present Managing Director / majority shareholder Freibank Musikverlags und -vermarktungs GmbH Independent music publishing company based in Hamburg.
1997–2005 Senior Vice President SINE Sony Music Entertainment International Responsible for acquisition, development, integration and global marketing of repertoire generated by independent partner labels. Set up SINE (Sony Music Independent Network Europe) division for this purpose.
1995–1996 Managing Director / Minority Shareholder Play It Again Sam Germany Incorporated and headed German branch of European independent record company.
1987–1996 Managing Director / Majority Shareholder Freibank Musikverlage Incorporated and built artist-friendly publishing company. Expanded into press-, radio-, TV promotion and artist management.
1981 – 1994 Musician, Composer, Manager Einstuerzende Neubauten Negotiated all recording, touring, merchandizing, soundtrack, ballet, advertising and theatre production agreements. Set up joint venture publishing company for group in London 1984.

Peter John Mahrenholz

Peter John Mahrenholz,
Chief Executive Officer, Draftfcb Deutschland
Peter John studied Economics and Law and co-founded a law firm in Hamburg. His agency life started 1993 at Jung von Matt in Hamburg where he established the Planning department. He worked a lot with the client Audi and build an international Planning Group working on European Launches. In 1997 he left the agency and was founding Partner of Pentagon Network Marketing, working on strategic and creative developments for clients and agencies.

He left Germany in 1998 to work with DDB International in London as International Senior Account Planner. He was heading and coordinating planning on Volkswagen Accounts for the DDB Network worldwide. His responsibilities included the coordination of pan-European campaign development for launch and major lifecycle campaigns. Together with Volkswagen Management Peter John developed a multibrand strategy for the Volkswagen Group that was awarded with the Deutscher Marketingpreis.

He came back to Jung von Matt in 1999 as Managing Director and worked on international accounts like Wella Haircare and BMW. One of his most-loved jobs was to develop a communication strategy for the international MINI launch.In 2001 he was promoted to member of the executive board of Jung von Matt AG.

Since April 2004 Peter John Mahrenholz has been CEO at Draftfcb Germany. Additionally, in September 2008, he was voted as the President of GWA – Gesamtverband Kommunikationsagenturen – (The Association of Germany’s Communications Agencies).

Dr. Michael Trautmann

Dr. Michael Trautmann

Michael Trautmann (44) has worked on the subject of branding from various perspectives. He was Managing Director of the Marketing Foundation at the University of Augsburg where his took his PhD in 1993. As Manager of the International Top Management Consultancy, Bossard Consultants, he advised the Porsche AG and the Bertelsmann Entertainment Group among others.

In 1997 he joined Germanys leading advertising agency Springer & Jacoby, initially as the partner of company founder Reinhard Springer in London and then, from 1998, as Director Client Service to Mercedes-Benz. From 2000 onwards, as founding President of Springer & Jacoby International and member of the agency's holding board, Michael Trautmann has pushed forward the international development of Springer & Jacoby. His responsibilities included the founding of the S&J subsidiaries in Italy, Spain and France.

From 2002 until 2004 Michael Trautmann was Global Head of Marketing for AUDI AG. In addition to taking direct responsibility for managing the AUDI brand worldwide, he was responsible for coordinating the marketing activities of the AUDI group of brands (AUDI, Seat, Lamborghini).

As deputy to one of the AUDI board members he was also member of the Group Top Management at Volkswagen AG. In December 2004 the European Marketing Magazine “Media & Marketing“ nominated Michael as one of the “Top 40 under 40“ in Europe. In 2004 kempertrautmann was founded. He was in charge for Germanys biggest Social Marketing Campaign ever (“You are Germany”). Together with his Partner André Kemper he was elected as agency man of the year 2007 in Germany. Michael Trautmann was appointed as a supervisory board member (Deputy Chairman) of the Hyve AG in Oktober 2008.

Malte von Trotha

Malte von Trotha

Professional career
2006 Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH, Hamburg, Germany President and CEO
2005 Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH, Hamburg, Germany General Manager
2001 – 2005 Verlagsgruppe Milchstrasse, Hamburg, Germany CFO
2001 Verlagsgruppe Milchstrasse, Hamburg, Germany Head of Business Development
1998 – 2000 Langnese-Iglo GmbH, Hamburg, Germany Controlling Manager Traditional Trade and Catering
1996 – 1998 Langnese-Iglo GmbH, Hamburg, Germany Supply Chain Controlling Manager
1993 – 1996 Unilever Internal Audit, Hamburg, GermanySenior Auditor
Education         
1987 – 1993 University degree in Economics and Social Sciences (Dipl. Kaufmann) – University of Bochum and University of Augsburg, Germany
1985 – 1987 Bank Traineeship- Bayerische Vereinsbank AG, Munich, Germany
1985 Abitur (German High School Diploma)
Misc.
Language skills: English (fluent), French (basic knowledge)
Hobbies/Sport: my children, music, golf, sailing, badminton

John M. Jacobsen

John M. Jacobsen
Independent producer
Started in the film business in 1959. Broad experience in exhibition, distribution and production. Jacobsen has produced more than 20 films since 1983. Among his productions are: MAX MANUS (2008) – the biggest Norwegian box office hit in 30 years, PATHFINDER (1987) nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film, ELIAS – THE LITTLE RESCUE BOAT (2005-2009) animated television series for children. Nominated for an International Emmy. Made Commander of the order of St. Olav by the King of Norway for his work on behalf of the Norwegian Film Industry. Awarded an honorary AMANDA (Norway’s Oscar equivalent). Awarded an honorary Aamot statuette by the Norwegian Film and Cinema Association. Awarded an honorary Golden Film Reel by the Norwegian Cinema Managers Association. Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by CIFEJ – Centre international de film pour l’enfance et la jeunesse. Currently President of AGICOA in Geneva – an international rights holders’ organization for film and television producers.

Jacobsen was Chairman of the Norwegian Film and Television Producer Association for 15 years.

Caren Miosga

Caren Miosga

Caren Miosga was born in Peine/Lower Saxony and has been living in Hamburg since 1989 where she studied History and Slavic Studies. Beside her university studies, she worked as a tourist guide in Moscow and St. Petersburg and reported from Russia for the radio. She worked for R.SH, Radio Hamburg, N-Joy-Radio and RTL-Nord as reporter, editor and host.

Caren Miosga joined the NDR in 1999 where she works as film author and hosted the NDR Cultural Journal (1999-2007) as well as the “Zapp” media magazine (2003-2005). In May 2006, she became the primary presenter for cultural programs for the ARD TV station and hosts its weekly broadcast called "title thesen temperamente”.

Since July 2007, she has been hosting the late-night daily news magazine “Tagesthemen” alternating with Tom Buhrow.

Dagmar G. Wöhrl

Dagmar G. Wöhrl,
Member of the German Bundestag
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

Born on 5 May 1954 in Stein near Nuremberg, Protestant, married, two sons. 1973 Abitur (university-entrance qualification) at Sigena-Gymnasium. Studied law at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, second state examination in 1987. Since 1987 attorney and businesswoman.

Deputy chair of the CSU district association in Nuremberg Fürth Schwabach, 1990 to 1994 town counsellor, spokesperson on housing policy, key issues: commerce, law, town planning and urban development.

Member of the Bundestag since 1994.

In the 14th Parliament, chair of the Economics and Technology Working Group of the CSU group.

Member of the Executive Committee of the CSU, chair of the CSU Finance Commission, deputy chair of the CSU SME Union, president of Nuremberg Fürth Animal Welfare Association, board member of the Bavarian Aids Foundation.

2002 to 2005 economic policy spokesperson of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group.

Since November 2005 Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

Since November 2006 Maritime Coordinator of the German Government.

Dr. Dana Beldiman

Dr. Dana Beldiman

Dana Beldiman is a partner with the law firm Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP, Partner in San Francisco, U.S.A. and specializes in international intellectual property law and international transactions. She has taught at the Santa Clara University School of Law and is currently adjunct professor at Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, as well as visiting professor at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany and the Riga Graduate School of Law, Riga, Latvia. Ms. Beldiman serves as Honorary Consul General of Romania in San Francisco and is a member of the Board of the American Friends of Bucerius Law School.

Dana Beldiman holds a M.A. degree from the University of Bucharest, Romania, a J.D. from Hastings College of Law, a L.L.M. in Intellectual Property from Santa Clara University School of Law and a doctorate in law from the University of Bremen, Germany.

Andréa Mallard

Andréa Mallard

Andréa is a Brand Strategy Lead at IDEO Europe, working out of the Munich office. She began her IDEO career in Boston, where she worked on finding richer, deeper, and better ways to build robust brand strategies for clients ranging from baby care to media to financial services (and everything in between). Andréa started her career interning as a television and magazine journalist and editor in Toronto and London. She later moved toward new product development by helping launch new print, television, and online brands in a shifting, confused, and thrilling media landscape in London, San Francisco, and New York City respectively. She also spent an ill-fated internship at a large advertising agency before realizing she didn’t have the patience for old models of brand building. Not to mention a lost year as a bartender in a seedy Parisian bar, which she still considers her most challenging and rewarding job. She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Forbes, and Rodale. She has a Master’s of Science in Media from the London School of Economics and speaks enthusiastically on brand strategy, media, and design thinking.

Scott McDonald

Scott McDonald

Scott McDonald is the Senior Vice President for Market Research at Condé Nast Publications. He oversees market research, consumer research, advertising research, editorial research and development research for all of the Condé Nast magazines. This includes such well-known titles as Vogue, Architectural Digest, Glamour, Self, GQ, Vanity Fair, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Condé Nast Traveler, Allure, House & Garden, Wired, Lucky, Bride’s, Modern Bride, W, Details, Jane, Cookie, Domino, Teen Vogue, Men’s Vogue and The New Yorker . He also oversees research for Condé Net, including such sites as Style.com, Epicurious.com, Concierge.com, Men’sStyle.com, Brides.com, Flip.com and the companion sites to the Condé Nast magazines.

Prior to joining Condé Nast, Scott was the Director of Research for Time Warner Inc. He was instrumental in the redesign of TIME Magazine, the growth of the People franchise, and the launches of both Entertainment Weekly and Martha Stewart Living. There, he also did pioneering work on interactive TV and on internet-based media. This included research on several of Time Warner’s media and e-commerce websites, as well as on Time Warner’s interactive television trial in Orlando Florida, the Full Service Network. He has studied consumer demand for digital television, PVRs, IP telephony, and cable modem services. He also has written extensively about the impact of new digital technologies on the measurement and economics of existing media.

Scott has been at the forefront of industry efforts to develop standards of audience measurement for interactive media. He organized the first industry conferences on these topics for the Advertising Research Foundation, and he served as the first research chair for the Internet Advertising Bureau. He is co-author of the FAST Standards for Internet Audience Measurement, standards that have been adopted widely in the United States and Europe. In 2004 he was appointed to the Congressional Task Force investigating allegations of racial bias in the implementation of Nielsen’s local people meter television audience measurement system.

Scott has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Advertising Research Foundation. He also serves on the Program Committee of the Worldwide Readership Research Symposium, as well as on the board of the Media Research Council. He is a trustee of the Marketing Science Institute. He also is a member of the European Society for Marketing and Opinion Research, of the Market Research Council, of the American Association of Public Opinion Research, and of the American Sociological Association. Over the years he has delivered numerous scholarly papers before each of these professional associations.

Scott comes to the media research business from an academic background in both demography and survey statistics. He holds an A.B. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. Since 1997, he has taught as an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, and he has previously taught in the sociology departments at both Harvard and NYU. He has also lectured and published on a broad range of topics in the social sciences. He has been a recipient of the National Science Foundation Fellowship and of the Charles Abrams Fellowship of Harvard and MIT.

von Giovanni Di Lorenzo

von Giovanni Di Lorenzo

Giovanni di Lorenzo was born in Stockholm on March 9th, 1959. After completing high school in Hanover, he studied communication science, modern history and political science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Between 1979 and 1982, he gained first professional experience at the daily newspaper „Neue Presse“ in Hanover and wrote articles for several newspapers and magazines. Mr. di Lorenzo presented „Live aus dem Alabama“ (Bayerischer Rundfunk), a TV-program for young people, and has been host of the talk show „III nach 9“ (Radio Bremen/NDR) for almost twenty years. He was a political reporter for „Süddeutsche Zeitung“ from 1987 to 1994, then head of the Department „Die Seite Drei“ until 1998. A year later, Giovanni di Lorenzo became Editor-In-Chief of the Berlin daily „Der Tagesspiegel“. Since August, 2004, he has been Editor-In-Chief of the liberal weekly „Die Zeit“.

Mathias Müller von Blumencron

Mathias Müller von Blumencron

Mathias Müller von Blumencron was born in Hamburg on July 23, 1960.

After completing a law degree in Hamburg and Kiel, he graduated from the Hamburg School of Journalism. In 1989, he joined "Capital" in Cologne as an editor and then transferred to "Wirtschaftswoche" in 1990 as a correspondent, initially in Zurich, later in Berlin.

In 1992, he joined DER SPIEGEL and started working on the national affairs desk, becoming deputy head of that department in 1996. He went to the USA in October 1996 as a business correspondent for DER SPIEGEL, first reporting from Washington and, from August 1998 onwards, from New York.

From December 1, 2000, Müller von Blumencron served as Editor-in-Chief of SPIEGEL ONLINE. Since February 5, 2008 he has served as Joint Editor-in-Chief of DER SPIEGEL together with Georg Mascolo.

Ulrich Reitz

Ulrich Reitz

Date of birth 22.10.1960
Place of birth Mönchengladbach
Marital Status: Married, five children
Education: 1970 - 1979 Gymnasium Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen(secondary school) Graduation from school with entitlement for university access (Abitur)
  Subsequently: University course: political science and German language and literature studies Degree: Magister Artium
Professional career: 01/85 - 10/85 Traineeship with the German newspaper “Die Welt”
  10/85 Editor for the news department “Die Welt”
  09/87 Political correspondent, editorial department for parliamentary issues, “Die Welt”
  11/89 Head of the domestic policy department, central editorial department, “Die Welt”, Bonn
  06/92 Head of editorial department Bonn, magazine “Focus”
  10/97 Chief editor of newspaper "Rheinische Post", Düsseldorf
  07/05 Chief editor of newspaper “WAZ Westdeutsche Allgemeine“, Essen
Member of the Henry Nannen Award jury
  of the Theodor Wolff Award jury
  of the University Council of the Technical University of Dortmund

Frank Thomsen

Frank Thomsen

  -   1962 born in Flensburg
  -   Studies business administration and journalism at the University of Hamburg
  -   During this period: freelance journalist, focus: media coverage (Die Zeit, FR, epd Medien, etc.)
  -   Since 1996: „stern“ magazine
  -   Until 2001, financial editor with focus on: media and telecommunication
  -   2001 to 2006: head of department of politics and economy
  -   Since August 2006: chief editor of stern.de

Dr. Bernd Buchholz

Dr. Bernd Buchholz
Member of the Gruner + Jahr AG Executive Board and President of G+J Germany
Dr. Bernd Buchholz, born in 1961, studied law and business at the Freie Universität Berlin and passed his First State Law Exam in 1986. He worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Environmental, Economic and Tax Law at the University of Kiel until 1989. In 1990, he earned his doctoral degree in law, followed in 1992 by the Second State Law Exam. He served as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament and was FDP Parliamentary Chairman from 1992 to 1996.

Bernd Buchholz joined Gruner + Jahr as an assistant to the management in 1996. From 1998 to 1999, he served as managing director of Morgenpost Verlag GmbH. From January 2000, he served first as publishing director of STERN magazine, then, from July as executive publisher of the entire STERN/GEO group.

As a member of the Gruner + Jahr executive board and President of G+J Germany, Buchholz has been in charge of the publisher’s entire brand business (Print and Online) since January 2004.

On January 6, 2009 Bernd Buchholz was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Gruner + Jahr AG. He will simultaneously continue to head the ‘Gruner + Jahr Germany’ division.

Dr. Bernd Buchholz is married and has two children.

Prof. Dieter Gorny

Prof. Dieter Gorny
President of Bundesverband Musikindustrie e. V.
Director for the Creative Industries of the European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010
Dieter Gorny studied music with a focus on bass and composition. In the 1970’s he was a member of the Bochum Symphony and the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra before founding the Rockbüro NRW in 1985, which, being the first project of its kind in Germany, laid the foundations for communal funding of Rock and Pop as it is being done today. In 1989 he developed the renowned PopKomm music fair, which he expanded as their Managing Director and continues to support as member of the board of directors until today. From 1993 until 2000 Mr. Gorny was Managing Director of VIVA Fernsehen GmbH and from 2000 onward Chief Executive Officer of VIVA Media AG. After the take-over of VIVA Media AG by Viacom Inc. in 2004, he worked as Executive Vice President of MTV Networks Europe until 2006.

Dieter Gorny was awarded with the Echo Award in 1992 and the Grimme Award as “Mediaman of the Year” in 1997.

Since 2000 Dieter Gorny is member of the Steering Committee of the German Music Council. In 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Filmstiftung NRW and of the Initiative Musik, a joint initiative of the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, GEMA, GVL and the German Music Council with the goal of fostering the German music industry. In April 2009 he was also appointed Vice President of the European Music Council (EMO).

After several teaching assignments at the music conservatories of Cologne, Düsseldorf and Hamburg, among others, Mr Gorny was appointed Professor of Culture and Media Studies at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf in 2005.

Dieter Gorny was born in Soest/Westphalia, in 1953. He now lives in Essen-Werden, Germany with his wife and four children.

Lutz Marmor

Lutz Marmor

1954 Born in Cologne
1960 – 1972 Attended school in Cologne, graduation from school with entitlement for university access (Abitur)
1972 – 1978 Studies business administration at the University of Cologne (focus:auditing, tax theory)
1978 Degree in business administration - “Diplom-Kaufmann”
1978 – 1979 GEBERA consultancy service provider, Cologne (focus: controlling)
1979 – 1982 University of Cologne, department of auditing: scientific assistant at the department
1983 – 1991 Work for the public service broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (from 1996, head of accounting department)
1991 – 1995 Administration and operating director with the public service broadcaster Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (today rbb) in Potsdam
at the same time
20.02.1992 – 1995
Managing Director of ORB-Werbung GmbH
1995-2006 Administrative director of the public service broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk
seit 01.09.1996 Managing Director of NDR Media GmbH
2003/2004 Chairman of the ARD/ZDF financial commission
01.08.2006
until 31.12.2007
Administrative director and deputy director of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk
2006 to the end of 2007 Chairman of the GEZ advisory board
since 13.01.2008 Director of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk
since 28.03.08 Supervisory board chairman of Studio Hamburg GmbH Supervisory board chairman of NDR Media GmbH

Dr. Rainer Esser

Dr. Rainer Esser

Experience
March 1999 – to date: General Manager of DIE ZEIT, ZEIT ONLINE, ZEIT TV and Weltkunst

DIE ZEIT is Germany’s biggest quality newspaper with a circulation of more than 500.000. In addition, we publish six magazines on science, art (two), history and education (two), and we offer travel, TV productions and congresses, seminars as well as book editions.
February 1995 – February 1999 General Manager of Main Post Publishing House. Main Post is a daily newspaper in northern Bavaria with a circulation of more than 175.000. In addition, Main Post publishes ten advertising papers, yellow pages and offers online and printing services.
November 1992 – January 1995 General Manager of Spotlight Publishing House. Spotlight publishes seven magazines in four languages with an overall circulation of more than 400.000 copies. Spotlight also offers language services online and a whole range of language learning aids.
October 1989 – October 1982 Editor in Chief of Business Law Europe and Tax Letter Europe, two legal news services being published in five languages at Bertelsmann International, Munich
July 1987 – September 1989 Lawyer in the international law offices of Freshfields in Hamburg and Nörr, Stiefenhofer & Lutz, Munich
1979 – 1984 Various internships with the law offices of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (London and Washington), U.N. Center on Transnational Corporations (New York), Herbert Smith & Co (London), Gide, Layrette, Nouél (Paris) and with Deutsche Bank (Paris)
Education
February 1989 PhD in International Law, University of Regensburg
November 1986 – June 1987 Education as Editor at Deutsche Journalistenschule (German Journalists School), Munich
September 1983 – November 1986 Second State Examination (Final Law Examination), Law School Munich
September 1982 – June 1983 Master of Laws, University of Georgia, U.S.
November 1980 – June 1982 Law School Munich and First State Examination (Bachelor of Laws)
November 1979 – June 1980 Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva
November 1977 – July 1979 Law School Munich
September 1975 – September 1977 Trainee with Deutsche Bank AG, Hannover
Further Training
February and May 2006 Advanced Executive Program at Kellog School of Management, Chicago
Summer 1993 Marketing, finance, controlling, organisation Handelsblatt Summer University, Berlin
July – August 1982 Introduction into the American Legal System, Georgetown University, Washington
July 1980 Modern English Law London School of Economics
June 1980 Diplome de Langue Alliance Francaise, Paris

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