Gunter Grittmann

Biography

Gunter Grittmann is head of the service department "Information and Communication" at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim. He studied Political Sciences and English at the University of Mannheim and in Newcastle upon Tyne/England and graduated with the First State Examination (1. Staatsexamen). After two years as a trainee-teacher he passed the Second State Examination (2. Staatsexamen) and was then qualified to work as a teacher in secondary schools, including teaching at A-level standard. He then worked on a research project in the English department and as a lecturer for English at the University of Mannheim. In 1988 he was accepted at the Holtzbrinck School of Journalism in Düsseldorf which is owned and operated by Handelsblatt Publishing Group. There he successfully completed a traineeship in economic journalism at some of Germany’s leading business papers "Handelsblatt" and "WirtschaftsWoche". He then worked as an editor specialised in economics for the "Handelsblatt" where he focussed on occupational and educational topics as well as the labour markets for highly qualified manpower.

Research Interest

Information and Communication