Markus Spillmann
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Born | 5 October 1967 Basel, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | • University of Basel • University of Zurich | ||||||||||||||||||
Member of | American Swiss Foundation/Young Leaders/1999, Rive-Reine-Conference | ||||||||||||||||||
Attended the 2008 Bilderberg and some WEF AGMs as chief editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
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Markus Spillmann is a Swiss editor who attended the 2008 Bilderberg and some WEF AGMs as chief editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Education
Spillmann studied history, political sciences and economics at the Universities of Basel and Zurich.[1]
Career
He completed his studies with a thesis under Dieter Ruloff. During his studies, he worked at a major Swiss bank in the field of political and economic country risk analysis. In 2008, he completed executive management training at the Graduate School for Business at Stanford University, and in 2015 he completed further training in corporate governance for board members at the Swiss Board School.
After working as an assistant at the University of Zurich, Spillmann became Editor for interior news at the Badener Tagblatt in 1995. In the same year he moved to the NZZ as a foreign editor. From spring 2002, he headed the International department at the newly launched NZZ am Sonntag and was deputy editor-in-chief. On April 2006, he was appointed by the Board of Directors as editor-in-chief and Head of Journalism as successor to Hugo Bütler.[2]
In December 2014, his resignation was announced at the end of the year[3][4] after he had not been able to reach an agreement with the Board of Directors on key issues related to the publishing strategy. As a journalist, Spillmann worked as a correspondent in the UK and undertook research trips to war and crisis areas, including Iraq, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, and Bosnia. After his resignation, Spillmann worked as a columnist in the Sonntagszeitung.
In mid-2015, he founded his owner-managed consulting firm Spillmann Publizistik, Strategie Management GmbH[5], based in Zurich, which focuses on supporting managers, committees, organizations and companies in exposed situations, as well as working in the areas of strategy development and change management.
As a lecturer, he teaches media economics, editorial management and journalism at domestic and foreign universities. He regularly moderates discussion rounds and conferences.
He became a member of the Federal Media Commission EMEK in 2016,[6] sitting until 2023.[7]. Spillmann was Chairman of the Foundation Board of the Swiss Press Council from 2017 to 2021. He was on the advisory board of the think tank StrategieDialog21.[8] At the annual conference of the International Press Institute (IPI) in Abjua, Nigeria, in 2018, Spillmann was elected president, of which he has been a member since 2007. As part of the statutory term limit, he relinquished the chairmanship in 2021.
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Bilderberg/2008 | 5 June 2008 | 8 June 2008 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests |
Munich Security Conference/2009 | 2009 | 2009 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 45th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2010 | 5 February 2010 | 7 February 2010 | Germany Munich Bavaria | An anti-war demonstration outside described it as "Nothing more than a media-effectively staged war propaganda event, which this year had the purpose of justifying the NATO troop increase in Afghanistan and glorifying the continuation of the war as a contribution to peace and stability." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2011 | 26 January 2011 | 30 January 2011 | Switzerland WEF | 2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2012 | 25 January 2012 | 29 January 2012 | Switzerland WEF | 2113 guests in Davos |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | Switzerland WEF | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | Switzerland WEF | 2603 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
References
- ↑ https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000028823
- ↑ http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/startseite/newzzEGMLNXVH-12-1.187562
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141218043555/http://www.nzzmediengruppe.ch/2014/12/09/nzz-chefredaktor-markus-spillmann-tritt-zurueck/
- ↑ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Jornod
- ↑ http://markusspillmann.ch/
- ↑ https://www.emek.admin.ch/de/emek-startseite/
- ↑ https://www2.unil.ch/elitessuisses/personne.php?id=93702
- ↑ https://www.strategiedialog21.ch/wer-wir-sind

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