Jurgen Hecker

Instructor, Program Coordinator for Journalism

  • Department: Communication, Media and Culture
  • Graduate Program(s): Global Communications
  • Office: 
    G-401
  • Office Hours: 
    By appointment

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Irish-born and Paris-based Jurgen Hecker has decades of experience in written and broadcast journalism in many countries, covering economics, lifestyle, fashion, environment, politics and sport and has conducted interviews with hundreds of leaders in those fields. He has moderated many public talks at major conferences across the world on business, culture, sustainability, urban mobility, the sharing economy, design, architecture and gender issues.
He is Paris Correspondent at global news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), teaches journalism at the American University of Paris and coaches corporate executives in media training.



Education/Degrees

  • 1984-1986 The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 
  • 1982-1984 The University of Bonn MSc (Econ), European Studies