Wolfgang Blau

Wolfgang is the Global Managing Partner of Brunswick's Sustainable Business Practice, collaborating with teams in 27 cities worldwide.

He advises some of the world’s leading multinational companies, universities, and NGOs on their climate and nature strategies. His recent work focuses on the insurance sector, consumer goods, and electricity grid operators.

Together with Oxford University, he co-founded the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, which trains journalists from more than 300 leading news organizations each year to deepen their understanding of effective and credible sustainability communication.

Previously, he was the President International and Global Chief Operating Officer of the US media company Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, Wired, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. There, he modernized the company’s digital publishing portfolio and initiated the launch of the sustainability-focused publication Vogue Business. He also led Condé Nast’s 11 country operations across Asia, Europe, and Latin America into a successful merger with Condé Nast’s U.S. division.

Under his leadership, Condé Nast became the first publishing company globally to sign the UNFCCC Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action.

Wolfgang began his career as a news anchor for ARD, Germany’s national public broadcaster. He then spent six years in the San Francisco Bay Area covering digital technology and media companies for Germany’s national newspaper DIE WELT and national public broadcaster ZDF. Upon returning to Germany, he became Editor-in-Chief of the national news organization ZEIT ONLINE, a position that earned him Germany’s “Editor-in-Chief of the Year” award. In 2013, he moved to London to join the executive board of The Guardian, where he served as Executive Director of Digital Strategy for its newsrooms in London, New York, and Sydney.