Robin Mishra

Robin Mishra (* 1969 ) is a German journalist, lawyer, author and diplomat.

Life

From 1988 he studied law in Münster and Paris ( first state examination in 1994) and received his doctorate in 1997 . After the second state examination in 1998, he initially worked as assistant to the chairman of the board at Bertelsmann AG / CLT-UFA in Luxembourg. In 2000 he moved to the WDR in Düsseldorf, where he worked in the editorial department for state politics television (TV political magazine “ Westpol ”).

In 2001 he became parliamentary correspondent for Rheinischer Merkurs and in 2006 head of the capital city office. Since 2010 he has worked as press spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Research for the ministers Annette Schavan and Johanna Wanka . In September 2015, Mishra moved to the Federal Foreign Office and took over the management of the science department at the German Embassy in Washington.

Prizes and awards

• 2004 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship to the Chicago Tribune
• 2005 Arthur F. Burns Journalism Award for reporting on the US presidential campaign
• 2009 Roman Herzog Media Prize on the topic: How do we get the best personalities into politics?

Publications

• (Ed.) Angela Merkel: Words of Power. The positions of the Chancellor . Herder, Freiburg 2010. , ISBN 978-3-451-30353-1
• How I learned to love politicians. A guide for the people and their representatives . Herder, Freiburg 2009. , ISBN 978-3-451-30157-5
• Admissibility and limits of the scolding . Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1997. , ISBN 3-428-09152-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robin Mishra will speak for Minister Annette Schavan in the future ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Press release from May 19, 2010 
2. ↑ The gentle power of science diplomacy - Interview in Deutschlandradio on August 15, 2015