Career
In 2001 Miriam Meckel became the State Secretary at the department of the Premier of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia and government spokeswoman, later on the State Secretary for Europe, International Affairs and Media. From 1999 to 2001 she was a professor for Communication Sciences at the University of Münster in Germany. Her publications include texts on media economics, communication and cyberpolitics - in 2010 she wrote about her experience with burn-out syndrome.
In November 2014 Miriam Meckel was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Wirtschaftswoche.
Meckel lives in Saint Gallen, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany. She has been in a long-term relationship with Anne Will, a German television journalist.
