Steffen Klusmann, Editor-in-Chief, Financial Times Deutschland, Germany

Steffen Klusmann was born in 1966 in Karlsruhe. After studying economics in Mainz, Glasgow and Hamburg, he successfully attended the Holtzbrinck school of Journalism in Dusseldorf. His next stop was the business weekly “Wirtschaftswoche“, where he worked as economy and politics correspondent. In 1996, he then moved on to the monthly “manager magazin“, dealing mainly with economic policy and technology trends. In 1999, the Financial Times Deutschland hired Klusmann. He helped develop the newspaper, which was launched in February 2000. Klusmann then became features editor, in charge of background stories, comments and editorials as well as feature stories. He then moved on to become the FTD’s news editor. In July 2003, Steffen Klusmann returned to the “manager magazin“ as vice editor-in-chief. In 2004, Steffen Klusmann joined the Financial Times Deutschland again, this time as editor-in-chief.