Dr. Döpfner was appointed as a Director of RHJI on September 16, 2008. He is currently Chairman and CEO 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 there since the year 2000.
Mathias Döpfner has held several different positions in media companies during his career. Amongst others, as Editor-in-Chief of the Wochen Post and the Hamburger Morgenpost newspapers. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Board of Directors at Time Warner, Inc. He is also on the Supervisory Boards of the Deutsche Presse Agentur and the Leipziger Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft, as well as being a member of the European Publishers Council, among other things. He holds Honorary Offices at the American Academy, the Aspen Institute, and on the American Jewish Committee. Dr. Döpfner studied Musicology, German, and Theatrical Arts in Frankfurt and Boston.
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