Miriam Meckel Blumenbergplatz 9 9000 St.Gallen Switzerland +41 (71) 224 2297 +41 (71) 224 2771 miriam.meckel@unisg.ch http://www.miriammeckel.com/ http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/export/IMG/Miriam_Meckel.img professor Director of the Institute for Media and Communications Management Communication Management, International Communication, Media Economics, Corporate Communication 1999 Professorship in Communication Sciences at the University of Münster and Managing Director 2001 State Secretary at the department of the Premier of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia and government spokes woman 2002 State Secretary for Europe, International Affairs and Media of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2005 Professorship in Corporate Communication, Institute for Media and Communications Management ([http://www.mcm.unisg.ch MCM]) at the University of St.Gallen Miriam Meckel is a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ([http://www.dgpuk.de/ DGPuK]) and the International Communication Association ([http://www.icahdq.org/ ICA]). She belongs to the Board of [http://www.message-online.de/ Message], the International Journal for Journalism and to the Board of the Institut zur Förderung publizistischen Nachwuchses ([http://www.kath.de/ifp/ IfP]), Munich. As a member of the international Jury of the Development Gateway Foundation at the World Bank she helped to initiate and develop the [http://www.developmentgateway.org/award Development Gateway Award] (Petersberg Prize). Miriam Meckel obtained the [http://www.cicero-rednerpreis.de/ CICERO-Speakerprize] (category science) in November 2001 Miriam Meckel runs her own [http://www.miriammeckel.de Blog] where she discusses ongoing political and social controversies.