Klaus-Peter Schmidt-Deguelle was born on the 10th October 1950 in Bergisch-Gladbach. He studied economics, history, German studies and political sciences at the universities in Cologne, Freiburg and Marburg.
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Since 1st Jan. 2008
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Member of the Board of Directors of the WMP EuroCom AG
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2006 - 2008
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Associate Partner at the WMP EuroCom AG
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2000 - 2006
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Independent Media and PR Consultant in Berlin and Frankfurt for ministries, government agencies, business and human resources consultancies, TV stations (such as TV21 / Sabine Christiansen, ZDF / Berlin-Mitte) as well as several corporations
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1999 - 2005
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Consultant for the Federal Ministry of Finance headed by Hans Eichel; Personal Consultant of the Federal Minister of Finance, attending all international conferences in that function (G7 / G8, IMF and World Bank meetings, EU Minister of Finance and European Council meetings, bilateral government consultations etc.)
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1999 - 2000
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Consultant for the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs headed by Walter Riester as well as the Federal Chancellery
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1994 - 1999
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State Secretary of the Hessian state government headed by the Chief Minister Hans Eichel
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1993 - 1994
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Editor in Chief of the news division and later Editor in Chief of VOX; Member of the Executive Board of VOX
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1992
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Coordinator (Coverage of the beginning of the Middle East peace talks in Madrid as well as the EU summit in Lisbon for the ARD)
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1989
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Special Correspondent in Prague (Coverage of the occupation of the German embassy by GDR citizens as well as the 'Velvet Revolution')
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1980 - 1993
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Head of ARD news and current affairs ("Tagesschau" and "Tagesthemen") in Frankfurt (Hessischer Rundfunk); also in charge of the coverage of the stock exchange for the ARD
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1979 - 1980
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Reporter for the evening news program "Berliner Abendschau" of the SFB in Berlin
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