Miriam Meckel

Miriam Meckel, (born July 18, 1967), is a German journalist and professor for Corporate Communication and Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

In 2001 Miriam Meckel became the State Secretary at the department of the Premier of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia and government spokeswoman, later on the State Secretary for Europe, International Affairs and Media. From 1999 to 2001 she was a professor for Communication Sciences at the University of Münster in Germany. Her publications include texts on media economics, communication and cyberpolitics - in 2010 she wrote about her experience with burn-out syndrome.

In November 2014 Miriam Meckel was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Wirtschaftswoche.

As a member of international jury of the Development Gateway Foundation of the World Bank she was instrumental in designing the Development Gateway Award (Petersberg Prize).

In November 2001 Meckel received the Cicero Award for best speech in the academia category.

Meckel lives in St. Gallen, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany. She is married to Anne Will, a German television journalist.

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