Melinda Crane-Roehrs

Dr Melinda Crane moderates and gives lectures for numerous organisations and private companies, associations, foundations and ministries. She is also a frequent guest on television and radio programmes and an expert commentator. The American is an experienced television journalist, moderates in German and English, and also speaks fluent French. Melinda Crane presented the international talk show ‘To the Point’ for Deutsche Welle and was previously senior political analyst and chief political correspondent for Deutsche Welle TV's English-language programme. As a consultant for the programme ‘Sabine Christiansen’, Dr Crane produced interviews with Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George Bush and others. She was editor-in-chief of the programme ‘Global Players’ for CNBC and commented on US politics for the news channel n-tv. Melinda Crane writes regularly for major newspapers and magazines in Germany and the US, including the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor, as well as for Frankfurter Hefte, Internationale Politik and ARD. Before her television career, Melinda Crane studied contemporary history at Brown University and law at Harvard Law School, and earned her doctorate in political economy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She taught at the Hamburg Media School and gave seminars on intercultural communication at the Goethe Institute and the Deutsche Welle Academy. Melinda Crane came to Germany in 1983 on a DAAD scholarship. What was intended to be a research stay turned into a ‘lifelong relationship’: out of interest in Germany, its history and identity, Melinda Crane decided to stay. In 2014, she received the Steuben-Schurz Media Prize. The oldest German-American friendship organisation honours her outstanding services to transatlantic understanding.