Professional career

Since January 2010
President of the Deutsche Bundesbank's Regional Office in Berlin and Brandenburg

2001 - 2009
Business correspondent for "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" for the United States and Canada, based in Washington, D.C.

1997
Responsible for reporting on national and international monetary and foreign exchange policy

1996
Joined the business editorial staff at the newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" as an editor

Education

1990 - 1995
Studied Economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University (Bonn) and Harvard University (Cambridge, USA), graduate in Economics

1988 - 1989
Military service, Press and Information Office of the Federal Minister of Defence

1988
Abitur (senior school leaving certificate)