Dr. Jörg E. Allgäuer

Global Head of Media Relations and Digital Communications at Munich Re Group

The German-American Jörg Allgäuer is Global Head of Media Relations & Digital Communications at the Euro Stoxx 50-listed financial services company Munich Re.

Since 1990, Jörg has been working in the fields of communications and marketing. After starting his career in the Corporate Communications department at Siemens, he moved to Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1993, where he built up the Program Marketing for television and radio. From 1999 to 2003, he was Financial Spokesperson for the Allianz Group, and then until 2008 Head of Corporate Communications DACH for Fidelity Investments. Subsequently, he was Head of Communications at UniCredit Bank / HypoVereinsbank until 2010 and then Head of Corporate Communications at Sky Deutschland until 2017 before joining Munich Re.

Following studies in economics and political science, Jörg graduated at the University of Munich. He also holds a doctorate degree from the University of Bayreuth as well as an Executive MBA from the Technical University of Munich.