Michael J. Inacker
Michael J. Inacker
Michael J. Inacker has been since 2015 Chairman of the Managing Board and Chief Executive Officer of WMP EuroCom in Berlin, one of the leading German strategic communication and media relations advisory groups. He has been Member of the Board of Management since 2014. Dr. Michael J. Inacker studied Political Science, Public Law as well as Mediaeval and Contemporary History at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He acquired his PhD from the contemporary historian Karl Dietrich Bracher. In 1986 he studied at the Centre for International and Strategic Affairs (CISA) of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1989/90 he served in the planning staff of the German Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn. Later on, he became editor of the weekly newspaper “Rheinischer Merkur”, Bonn. In 1992 this task was followed by the position of political editor, later chief-correspondent and op-editor of “WELT am SONNTAG”, Hamburg. During this time, he visited many crisis areas like Cambodia, Somalia, Bosnia and Croatia. In 1998 he changed to industry and served as head of the chairman’s planning staff of DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart. Starting in 2001 Dr. Inacker was one of the editors responsible for establishing a weekly Sunday edition of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and served as head of the Berlin office of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. In 2004 Michael J. Inacker returned to DaimlerChrysler as Vice President in charge of the Stuttgart-based Department of External Affairs and Public Policy (EAPP). In 2007 he became Vice editor-in-chief and head of the Berlin office of the German economical weekly “WirtschaftsWoche”. From 2009 till 2011 he was Senior Vice President and Head of “Corporate Communications & Public Affairs”, METRO AG, Düsseldorf. This department is responsible for the company’s national and international external and internal communications as well as for the relationship of the company towards politics, government and social stakeholders. Furthermore, the division is in charge of projects and strategy with regard to “Corporate Social Responsibility“ (CSR). In 2012-2013 he was Vice-Editor in Chief and Head of the Berlin office of the German daily newspaper “Handelsblatt”. In July 2013 he was assigned to become Corporate Vice President of Siemens AG as Head of Corporate Communications. Due to a change of the board-leadership on short notice Inacker decided to withdraw from this assignment. He is author of several books (i.e. the German role during the Gulf-war 1991 and the relationship between church and democracy in Germany) and publications regarding economic and foreign affairs. The latest one is an essay on the relationship between politics and new economy. He is the Award Winner 2002 for “creative branding of new terms” of the German publishing and dictionary group “Klett/Pons” in Stuttgart. He is Executor of a will in the parental company, Siegen, Germany; Member of the supervisory board, Otto Quast Bau AG, Germany; Chairman of the board of the international foundation “Internationale Martin Luther Stiftung”, Erfurt, Germany; Member of the Council for Innovation of the state Baden-Wuerttemberg; Member of the Committee of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik“ (DGAP), Berlin, Germany; Member of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Washington, USA.
