Correspondents’ Round: Europe’s Sovereignty In Matters Of The Digital Economy And Energy
Speakers
Matthias Hohensee is the Silicon Valley bureau chief for the German national business weekly magazine Wirtschaftswoche. The magazine is Germany's largest business weekly magazine.
Matthias mostly writes stories about US high-tech companies and entrepreneurs and is always looking for interesting ideas, trends, and people. In the past he has interviewed Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Meg Whitman, among others. Matthias also co-founded an internet media company which has been acquired by a large German publishing company. He is the Georg von Holtzbrinck award-winner for Excellence in Business Journalism.
Gregor Waschinski has been the Handelsblatt's France correspondent since June 2021. Before that, he spent three years as a political correspondent in Berlin. Before Handelsblatt, he worked for the news agency AFP in Washington and Berlin. Trained at the German School of Journalism, studied political science and economics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, master's degree in European studies at Sciences Po Paris.
Christian Wermke, born in 1986, is working for Handelsblatt since 2012. He started as a political editor for the digital newspaper, switched to the reporter team in 2015 and has been Italy correspondent in Rome since the end of 2020. He studied political science in Hamburg and graduated from the „German School of Journalism“ (DJS) in Munich, where he also teaches today. Before joining Handelsblatt, he worked for the German press agency (dpa) and the „Tagesspiegel“.
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