Dr. Döpfner was appointed as a director of RHJI on September 16, 2008. He is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Axel Springer AG in Berlin, which he joined in 1998 as Editor-in-Chief of Die Welt. He has been a Member of the Management Board of Axel Springer since 2000.Mathias Döpfner has held several different positions in media companies during his career, amongst others, as Editor-in-Chief of the Wochenpost and the Hamburger Morgenpost newspapers. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Board of Directors at Time Warner, Inc. He holds several honorary offices, among others at the American Academy, the American Jewish Committee, the Aspen Institute and the European Publishers Council (EPC). In 2010 he was Visiting Professor in Media at the University of Cambridge and became a member of St. John’s College. Dr. Döpfner studied Musicology, German, and Theatrical Arts in Frankfurt and Boston.
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