Beat Gygi new on the Weltwoche editorial board

Weltwoche publisher Roger Köppel: "We are very happy about the signing of this excellent journalist, who will accentuate and expand business reporting at Weltwoche."

Beat Gygi from Bern was born in 1958 and grew up on his parents' farm in Lobsigen. He studied agronomy at the ETH Zurich and completed his subsequent economics studies at the University of Zurich with a dissertation on "International Organizations from the Perspective of Public Choice Theory" under Professor Bruno S. Frey. In 1990, Beat Gygi began his journalistic career in the economics department of the NZZ. From 1994 to 1999, he was the newspaper's economics correspondent in Bonn, followed by two years as correspondent in Paris. He then headed the NZZ's stock exchange editorial department and, as head of department, was jointly responsible for building up the business editorial department of the NZZ am Sonntag. From 2003 onwards, Gygi was the economics editor of the NZZ, covering numerous topics such as Swiss industrial companies, corporate governance, European integration, competition policy, health economics, energy and development policy. He will also be active as a writer in these areas for Weltwoche.

In addition to his professional activities, Gygi has been a regular lecturer on economic systems at the University of Zurich for around ten years. Gygi will start at Weltwoche after his ordinary notice period expires on January 1, 2015.

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