Martin Hofer joins Farner

He will strengthen the Public Affairs department and become a member of the Executive Board. Hofer will work on mandates at the interface of business and politics, in the area of media relations as well as crisis and issues management, the agency writes in a statement on Wednesday. He will report to Farner partner and Head of Public Affairs Daniel Heller.

Martin Hofer joined Burson-Marsteller in 2005 as Senior Consultant Public Affairs, then headed Corporate Communications and later Public Affairs. He was a member of the Executive Board until summer 2012. As the agency writes in a statement, during this time the teams he led succeeded in building sustainable client relationships as well as boosting new client business. He also successfully positioned a center for argumentation and media training on the market. Martin Hofer also became a point of contact for crisis communication and issues management. Previously, Martin Hofer had worked for several years in management positions in journalism. He was head of the TV news program "10vor10" (1999-2002). Hofer was also editor-in-chief of Sonntags-Blick (2003) and federal parliament correspondent for the Sonntagszeitung.