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Alexandra Borchardt is a journalist, leadership professor, book author and media consultant. She works as a Coach for Wan-Ifra's Table Stakes Europe Project and leads the Journalism Innovators Program at Hamburg Media School. She is also Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where she was Director of Leadership Programmes and Director of Strategic Development. Prior to this she was managing editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Germany’s leading quality daily. As a honorary professor Alexandra teaches “Leadership and Strategy in the 21st Century” at TU Munich's TUM School of Management and until September 2021 served on the Council of Europe's Committee on Freedom of Expression and Digital Technologies. She is also a member of the Committee for Editorial Independence at Czech publisher Economia and Member of the Board of Constructive Foundation in Aarhus. She gives lectures and talks on digitalisation and the media and publishes opinion pieces for example with Project Syndicate. She is the author of Mensch 4.0 – Frei bleiben in einer digitalen Welt (Freedom in a digital world), Guetersloher Verlagshaus (Random House), 2018. She served as vice chair of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Quality Journalism in the Digital Age.At SZ she held several functions in the politics and business sections. She was also founding editor of Süddeutsche’s ‘Plan W’, an award winning quarterly magazine for women and business. In her reporting she has focused on internet and democracy and the future of work. In 2015 she published Das Internet zwischen Diktatur und Anarchie: Zehn Thesen zur Demokratisierung der digitalen Welt (The Internet between Dictatorship and Anarchy: Ten Assertions about Democracy in the Digital World), Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition Streitschrift. Before joining SZ she worked for Financial Times Deutschland and Deutsche Presse-Agentur.Alexandra holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Tulane University, New Orleans (1994), and in 2013 completed a Programme for Management Development at IESE Business School, Barcelona.

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