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Markus Spillmann

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editor,  publisher,  businessman)
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Born5 October 1967
 Basel,  Switzerland
Nationality Swiss
Alma mater •  University of Basel
•  University of Zurich
Member ofAmerican Swiss Foundation/Young Leaders/1999, Rive-Reine-Conference

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

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20085 June 20088 June 2008US
Virginia
Chantilly
The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Munich Security Conference/200920092009Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/20105 February 20107 February 2010Germany
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/201126 January 201130 January 2011Switzerland
WEF
2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/201225 January 201229 January 2012Switzerland
WEF
2113 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/201323 January 201327 January 2013Switzerland
WEF
2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/201422 January 201425 January 2014Switzerland
WEF
2603 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
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