Gabor Steingart (48) is Editor-in-Chief of Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading business and financial daily, and a best-selling author. He joined the Hamburg-based current affairs magazine Der Spiegel as economics editor in 1990, then moved on to Berlin as bureau chief of Der Spiegel. In 2007, he took up a posting as Senior Correspondent in Washington D.C.

Gabor has published six books. Germany: The decline of a superstar became the eighth best-selling non-fiction book of the year 2004 in Germany. His book The War for Wealth: The True Story of Globalisation, or Why the Flat World Is Broken was also a best-seller in Germany and has been published in ten countries around the world, including The United Arab Emirates, South Korea and China. Dr. Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State, called it “a lucid and compelling reality check”.

Gabor regularly contributes op-ed articles to The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and European Affairs. He was named German Economic Writer of the Year in 2004. In 2007, Gabor Steingart was awarded the prestigious Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize.

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