Dr. Michael J. Inacker

Dr. Michael J. Inacker is the Vice Editor-in-Chief and head of the Berlin office of the German economics weekly WirtschaftsWoche.
 
Dr. Inacker, born in 1964, studied Political Science, Public Law, and Medieval and Contemporary History at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In 1986 he studied at the Center for International and Strategic Affairs (CISA) of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

In 1989/90 he served on the planning staff of the German Federal Ministry of Defense, Bonn. Later on, he became editor of the weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur in Bonn. In 1992 this task was followed by the position of political editor, later chief-correspondent and op-ed-editor, of WELT am SONNTAG in Hamburg. During this time, he visited many crisis areas like Cambodia, Somalia, Bosnia and Croatia.

In 1998 he changed to industry and served as head of the chairman's planning staff of DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart.

Starting in 2001 Inacker was one of the editors responsible for establishing a weekly Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and served as head of the Berlin office of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

In 2004 Inacker returned to DaimlerChrysler as Vice President in charge of the Stuttgart-based Department of External Affairs and Public Policy (EAPP), which oversees most of the worldwide corporate representative organization, and he was responsible for the relations of the company towards governments, political groups and NGOs.

In 2007 he became Vice editor-in-chief and head of the Berlin office of the German economics weekly WirtschaftsWoche.

He is the author of several books (including about the German role during the Gulf-war 1991 and the relationship between religion and democracy in Germany) and publications regarding economic and foreign affairs. The latest book is an essay on the relationship between politics and new economy.

Dr. Inacker was also the 2002 Award Winner for "creative branding of new terms" from the German publishing and dictionary group Klett/Pons in Stuttgart.