Simon Schütz heads the Department of Communications, Events, and Marketing at the VDA. He has been with the VDA since 2021. Before that, Schütz worked in Germany and the USA as a political and business journalist, including as Senior Editor at BILD and as Germany Correspondent for NPR. He completed his M.A. in Strategic Political Communication at Freie Universität Berlin and George Washington University in Washington, D.C.