{"id":75,"date":"2016-12-07T21:24:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theadclub.org\/womens2017\/?p=75"},"modified":"2017-03-30T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:49:22","slug":"meckel-miriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/2016\/12\/07\/meckel-miriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Miriam Meckel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"stripe stripe-style-5\" style=\"background-position: top;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-attachment: scroll;background-size: auto;padding-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 40px;margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><div class=\"wpb_row wf-container full-width-wrap\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px\" >\n\t<div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column column_container \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_custom_1484086678710 vc_align_center\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"946\" height=\"946\" src=\"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam-cropped_headshot-1.jpg\" class=\" vc_box_border_grey attachment-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam-cropped_headshot-1.jpg 946w, https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam-cropped_headshot-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam-cropped_headshot-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam-cropped_headshot-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t<div class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element hide-small vc_custom_1481145753872 vc_align_center\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam_meckel-slide.jpg\" class=\" vc_box_border_grey attachment-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam_meckel-slide.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam_meckel-slide-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam_meckel-slide-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/miriam_meckel-slide-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column column_container \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 75px; height: 75px;\"><\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element  vc_custom_1489072330326\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dr. Miriam Meckel<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Expert on Media Economics and Communication<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 15px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_row wf-container\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\" >\n\t<div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmeckel?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"74\" height=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/twitter-social.png\" class=\" vc_box_border_grey attachment-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 15px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hr-thin style-line\" style=\"width: 25%;border-color: #e5e5e5;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_video_widget wpb_content_element vc_custom_1490363439726\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_video_wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hVvflUWdfk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element  vc_custom_1484086514626\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Miriam Meckel, PhD, is the Editor-in-Chief of WirtschaftsWoche, Germany\u2019s largest weekly business publication. Starting in April 2017, she will serve as Publisher of the magazine to focus on the brand\u2019s digitalization process, its interactive membership community and expanding internationalization efforts.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Before joining WirtschaftsWoche, Miriam was the Managing Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where she has held a professorship for Corporate Communication since 2005. She served as a multi-year Faculty Associate at the \u201cBerkman Cmenter for Internet &amp; Society\u201d at Harvard University and was a visiting professor at Singapore Management University. From 2006-2007, she hosted a monthly political talk show on German television called \u201cMiriam Meckel \u2013 Viewpoints\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Previously, Miriam spent four years in politics at the Office of the Premier of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, first as Undersecretary for Media and government spokeswoman, then as Undersecretary for Europe, International Affairs, and Media. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prior to her political assignment, Miriam became the youngest professor in Germany through an appointment for Journalism and Communication Science at the University of M\u00fcnster, where she also took on the role of Managing Director of the Institute for Communication Science. Before her academic tenure, she worked as a TV journalist and news presenter for public and commercial television stations in Germany (ARD, VOX, RTL). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Miriam is an award-winning speaker, receiving the Cicero-Speaker Prize in the category of science in 2001, and a bestselling book author who has published prolifically on the development of the Internet, digital life and the future of journalism. Her autobiographical book \u201cLetter to my life\u201c (\u201eBrief an mein Leben\u201c) formed the basis of an award-winning television movie in 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Passionate about international and transatlantic exchange, she participated in the \u201cEuropean Asian Young Leaders Forum\u201d of the Herbert-Quandt-Foundation from 2002-2005, was awarded the&nbsp;Eisenhower Fellowship&nbsp;of the USA in 2008, and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in 2016. She is a member of the International Communication Association, and was a member of both the Swiss Federal Media Commission and the international jury of the Development Gateway Foundation at the World Bank, where she helped to develop the Development Gateway Award. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Miriam holds degrees in journalism, communication science, sinology, and political science from the University of M\u00fcnster, Germany, and the University of Taipei, Taiwan, finishing as a doctor of philosophy. In her spare time, she loves photography, playing the piano and everything related to books, in print or digital. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 800 !important; font-size: 18px !important;\">Expert on Media Economics and Communication<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 100 !important; font-size: 12px !important;\">Miriam is in demand around the globe for her talks. She is a former State Secretary and government spokeswoman in her native Germany. A high achiever, always going the extra mile like many women focused on success, she writes compellingly about her experience with burn-out syndrome in a book, <italics>Letter to My Life.<\/italics><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/03\/miriam-play.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/03\/miriam-play.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"The Ad Club","author_link":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/author\/theadclub\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/womens2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}