Studies of business management; graduated with a doctorate (Dr. rer.pol.) on the topic of East-West trade at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.
During the 1980s, manager in a PR agency and at the Hessische Landesbank (in press and communications).
Since 1991, Country Representative of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Central Europe and the Baltic States, based in Prague.
Since 1998, Executive Partner of MediaTrust Communications and of MediaConsulting in Prague. Main focus on strategy and communication consulting, political marketing.