Roland Tichy was born in 1955 in Bad Reichenhall. He studied economics, political science and communication. From 2007 until 2014 he was chief editor for the magazine “WirtschaftsWoche”. He started working as an assistant at the economic institute of the University of Munich. Later on, he was working for the planning department of the Federal Office for social- and economic policy. In 1985 his career continued in the news agency of the journal “WirtschaftsWoche” in Bonn. After that, he was working as proxy of the chief Editor for the magazine ‘Capital’ and later as chief editor for the magazine ‘Impulse’. In the time from 1996 until 1997 he was the head of the department ‘Corporate Issues Management’ in the office of Chief Executive Officer of the Daimler-Benz AG. Afterwards he worked for several business magazines like “Telebörse”, “DMEuro”, and “Euro” as chief editor. In 2008 Roland Tichy was awarded with the ‘Ludwig-Erhard’-prize in journalism. Additionally, he published various books, essays and scientific papers and established his name through appearances in different TV-shows.