Born on February 5, 1966 in Duisburg, Germany
Professional Experience:
Since July 2017 Correspondent in Euronews‘ Brussels bureau
2012 – 2017 Euronews‘ Washington correspondent
2011 – 2012 Host and producer of „Business Weekly“ at Euronews
2009 – 2011 Head of Euronews’s business desk
1999 – 2012 Head of German-speaking service at Euronews
1996 – 1999 News editor at Euronews
1995 French news agency AFP’s German-speaking correspondent in Brussels
1994 – 1996 Editor of German-speaking service at the foreign desk of
AFP in Bonn, Germany
1994 Junior editor at German news agency dpa in Cologne, Germany
1990 – 1993 Staff member and speech writer of the First Mayor of Hamburg, Germany
1987 – 1992 Freelance for German newspapers “Kölnische/Bonner Rundschau” and
„Die Welt“ in Bonn and Hamburg
Education and academic activities:
2002 – 2011 American History Professor at the Centre d’Etudes Franco-Américain
de Management (CEFAM), an American Business School, in Lyon, France
July 2010 Visiting Assistant Professor at Siena College, New York, Summer Program Course
on Money & Banking at Siena’s School of Business
1992 – 1995 Post-graduate studies in Hamburg and at the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, Kansas,
leading to a PhD thesis on Eisenhower and the Jewish Lobby
1987 – 1992 Student of History, Political Science and French in Bonn, Paris and
Hamburg, Master degree on French oil policy in the 1960s
1985 – 1986 Military service in the German navy
1976 – 1985 Mercator-Gymnasium, Duisburg, Germany, school leaving exam and
university entrance qualification
Publications:
1995 America’s Road To Israel. The Eisenhower Administration and the Jewish Lobby
1953-61, Münster, Hamburg, London 1995.
