Speakers at the Rechts­kommuni­ka­tions­gipfel 2020

Anette Dowideit began her career as a business reporter at Die Welt after completing her studies. In 2005, she moved to New York as a US correspondent, then joined the investigative team, where she has been chief reporter since 2018.

Dr. Rainer Eckert is a founding partner of the law firm ECKERT Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater. He is regularly appointed as insolvency administrator or trustee in significant insolvency proceedings throughout Germany. In addition to his work as a lawyer, Dr. Rainer Eckert is a lecturer at Leibniz Universität Hannover. He is also the author of numerous scientific articles on insolvency and tax law.

He is the author of a widely used commentary on the German Criminal Code (StGB) and numerous other publications. He has been a columnist for “Die Zeit” since 2015 and has been writing a weekly column for “Der Spiegel” since 2018. From 2000 to 2017, he was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice, where he has been the chairman of the second criminal division since 2013.

After several years as a freelance business journalist, he completed a traineeship at RAG AG. He then held various positions in the communications department at the Essen-based company. In 2000, Heiermann moved to ARAG in Düsseldorf as Head of the Corporate Communications Department. In 2003, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Group Communications. He has been a general representative of ARAG since the end of 2012 and a member of the Management Board since March 2018.

Tanja Irion founded her own law firm in 2000, specializing in media and copyright law. In 2014, she reached a legal milestone by winning a lawsuit against a search engine operator at the Hamburg District Court. In 2019, she was named one of Germany's best lawyers in the field of media and copyright law by Handelsblatt.

Marcus Jung studied law in Augsburg. As a court reporter, he wrote for the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and for the Münchner Merkur. He was admitted to the bar in 2007 and worked as an editor at the publishing house JUVE in Cologne, focusing on commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings. Since October 2016, he has been working as an editor in the business editorial office of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The graduate economist attended the German Journalism School in Munich and joined Handelsblatt in 2008. She worked for the business and finance newspaper for almost eleven years. In 2018, she switched to the corporate side and was responsible for external communications at Metro AG. She returned to Handelsblatt in March 2020 and is now head of the Companies & Markets section.

Andreas Mundt has been President of the German Federal Cartel Office since December 2009. He has been a member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee since 2010 and Chairman of the Steering Group of the International Competition Network since 2013. After studying law and passing the second state law examination, he worked for the Federal Ministry of Economics from 1991. From 1993, he worked as a policy officer for the FDP parliamentary group. In 2000, he moved to the Federal Cartel Office.

Stephan Pusch is the district administrator in the district of Heinsberg during the Corona pandemic. After studying law, he worked at the law firm Henning & Partner until 2004, when he became Heinsberg's full-time district administrator.

Dr. Ann-Christin Richter is a partner at Hausfeld in Berlin. She specializes in representing clients in antitrust damages actions. She studied in Hannover, Hamburg, Berlin and Durham. She holds an LL.M. from Durham University and a doctorate from the Free University of Berlin, both with a focus on antitrust law.

Monika Schaller has been Executive Vice President of Corporate Communications & Corporate Responsibility at Deutsche Post DHL Group since July 2019. Prior to that, she was responsible for communications at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.

Prof. Christian Schertz is a press and media lawyer. He holds an honorary professorship in media, press and personal rights at the Technical University of Dresden and lectures in “Strategic Legal Communication” at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He represents a large number of clients from the fields of business, politics and culture in media crises.

Angela Wefers set up the Berlin editorial office of the “Börsen-Zeitung” in 1991 and has been a political reporter since 1995. Her topics are German financial, budgetary and tax policy, regulatory policy, economic and economic policy. She has been an honorary member of the board of the Federal Press Conference since 1999.

Martin Wohlrabe is the founder and managing director of CONSILIUM Rechtskommunikation. He worked as a journalist for the BILD newspaper for many years. Mr. Wohlrabe also worked as a consultant to Wolfgang Schäuble in the Bundestag. The lawyer teaches “Strategic Legal Communication” at the University of Freiburg.