Manuela Kasper-Claridge is a German journalist. Manuela Kasper-Claridge is the editor-in-chief at Germany's international broadcasterDeutsche Welle with around 3,000 employees and freelancers from 60 countries.
Early life and career
Manuela Kasper-Claridge is the daughter of Dieter and Carmen Kasper. After school, she studied Economics and Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin and graduated in 1984. From 1985 to 1986 she completed an internship at West Berlin's public radio and television service SFB. Later she trained TV news producers and directors. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked as a news producer for RIAS-TV, covered Germany's Reunification, Central and Eastern European affairs and reported from Washington, D.C. Manuela Kasper-Claridge has three children. She lives in Berlin.
Career at DW
1992-1998 Producing reports and documentaries covering Europe, USA and Asia
Since 1998 Head of DW's Business Department, covering worldwide current affairs. Responsible for special broadcasts on the introduction of the Euro and EU expansion; conducted interviews with various top political and business leaders
In 2009 Kasper-Claridge started Global Ideas, a multimedia-based climate project for Deutsche Welle which is available in 5 different languages. Climate projects showing best practice are featured - with a focus on emerging nations and developing countries. Manuela Kasper-Claridge has regularly attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, where she initiated partnerships with the WEF and the Schwab Foundation. She is also a member of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce's committee on media and communication. Kasper-Claridge is on the board of trustees of Germany's Ifo institute. Manuela Kasper-Claridge initialized a cooperation with the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and interviewed various Nobel laureates like Stephen Chu, Mario Molina, Barry Marshall and Alvin Roth. Within the last years, Manuela Kasper-Claridge joined regularly the Fortune conference "Most Powerful Women" in London, which brought together the most prominent European women leaders in business, along with selected leaders form government, media, philanthropy and the arts. Since June 2016 she is a member of the board of the Hamburg World Economic Institute association “Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer des HWWI gGmbH e.V.”.
Awards
Manuela Kasper-Claridge won several prices at international film and documentary festivals. Among others the bronze medal at the “New York Festival – World's best TV and Films 2018” with the documentary „Founders Valley“. Other award-winning reports:
