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.