Klaus C. Engelen

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Klaus C. Engelen (born July 20, 1936 in Düsseldorf ) is a German business journalist .

Life

Klaus C. Engelen (2012)

Engelen completed after high school in 1957 at the high school Dusseldorf-Gerresheim initially a two-year apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank in Dusseldorf, where before 1959 Cologne University studying business administration resumed. After completing his studies as a business graduate with a focus on banking, he worked for the US financial institutions CIT Group and Schroders in New York . At the same time he did his doctorate with Heinrich Rittershausen , who is responsible for banking studies at the University of Cologne, on the subject of factoring in the USA.

In 1967 he was at the University of Cologne with the work on the search for new economic indicators: trade credit in the US doctorate . After that, Engelen was from 1967 to 1982 - with a two-year hiatus from 1970 to 1972, in which he took over the management of the business services division at the Düsseldorf publishing headquarters - the head of the USA office of the Handelsblatt based in Washington, DC and New York. During this time he also took on reporting on economic and financial developments in Latin America . From 1972 to 1977 he was also the US correspondent for Wirtschaftswoche, which belongs to the publishing group .

Engelen has followed the development of the Bretton Woods institutions with publications since the second half of the 1960s and has accompanied - with two exceptions - all annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank from 1968 onwards. From 1982 to 2001 he was the international correspondent for Handelsblatt, responsible for reporting on the global financial markets as well as the international financial institutions and committees for international economic and financial cooperation G7 , G20 and G24.

Today, in addition to the Handelsblatt, he also publishes in foreign specialist publications such as The International Economy in the USA, Central Banking and Global Risk Regulator in Great Britain .

He has been married to Ursula Engelen-Kefer since July 1967 . They have two grown sons.

Fonts

  • The financing and factoring of accounts receivable in the United States of America. Special banking publications by the Institute for Banking and Banking Law at the University of Cologne, Department of Banking, Volume 5. Cologne-Lindenthal 1965.
  • The trade and supplier credit in the USA. Duncker et al. Humblot, Berlin 1969.

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personal data
SURNAME Engelen, Klaus C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf