Stephan Richter is the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Globalist, the daily online magazine on the global economy, politics and culture, which he founded and launched in January 2000.

In his professional past, Mr. Richter has served as a global communications advisor to the German Economics Ministry, the German Finance Ministry, the IMF as well as to the CEOs of leading international banks.
Mr. Richter appears on leading radio and television programs, including Germany’s ARD and ZDF and on CNN, the PBS Newshour and National Public Radio in the United States. His articles and views have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Salon, Le Monde, Les Echos, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, Handelsblatt, Manager Magazin, NZZ and Foreign Affairs.

In the fall of 1990, he drafted the Sense of the U.S. Senate resolution calling for forgiveness of Poland’s Communist-era public debt, which was instrumental in the successful conclusion of the April 1991 Debt Agreement in the Paris Club. For these activities, Mr. Richter was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit by the President of Poland.
Mr. Richter received his J.D. from the University of Bonn, Germany in 1984, was a Rotary Foundation Award recipient in 1980-81 and a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association in 1986-87.
He is the author of the 1992 book, “Clinton: What Europe and the United States Can Expect.”