Portrait of Jan-Martin Wiarda

Independent Journalist

Jan-Martin Wiarda

  • 2023
  • Moderator
  • Circle
  • 2023
  • Speaker
  • Circle
  • 2020
  • Speaker
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Jan-Martin Wiarda is an independent journalist, political scientist and economist. Studied in Munich, Chapel Hill (USA) and German School of Journalism. Has been an author at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Brand Eins, the Financial Times Deutschland, Tagesspiegel and others. For 8 years has worked as an editor in Hamburg at ZEIT in the education department "Chancen" and for 3 years as Head of Communications at the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft . Since 2015 has worked as  freelance journalist, author and moderator. In 2016 defended his dissertation at the HU Berlin.