Christian Röpke

Chief Digital Officer, ZEIT Verlagsgruppe, Germany

Christian Röpke is CDO of DIE ZEIT. His main responsibility in this role is that of Managing Director of ZEIT ONLINE and academics.

These are the respective companies, in which the business models of paid content, digital ad sales and digital classifieds of DIE ZEIT are managed and the leading website www.zeit.de is published. Especially the strong growth of digital subscriptions has fueled the transformation of the business model of ZEIT ONLINE in recent years.

Before joining ZEIT ONLINE as Managing Director in 2009, Christian has worked in various management roles in digital media, e.g. at Financial Times Deutschland and Gruner + Jahr.