Michael Peters (born 1971 in Flensburg, Germany) [1] is a French-German media executive who established Africanews [2] and served as CEO of Euronews. [3]
Michael Peters (born 1971 in Flensburg, Germany) [1] is a French-German media executive who established Africanews [2] and served as CEO of Euronews. [3]
Peters is the son of a French mother who worked as a teacher and a German father who served in the German airforce. [4] and earned a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from EM Lyon business school in 1995. [5]
Peters started his professional career at auditing firm Arthur Andersen in Lyon. He worked for the company from 1995 to 1998. [6] Peters then joined news media Euronews as a finance manager in 1998. [2] He was promoted to Chief financial officer in 2000 and was named Euronews' Deputy Managing Director in December 2003. [7] From May 2005 to December 2008, Peters held the position as managing director of Euronews, before being appointed managing director of the executive board of Euronews S.A. in December 2008. [1]
In December 2011, he became Euronews' executive chairman of the board. [4] During his tenure, Media Globe Networks, managed by Naguib Sawiris, became the Euronews majority owner in July 2015. [8] In October 2015, Euronews opened its new headquarters in Lyon, and introduced the Euronews Next digital initiative aimed at reaching younger audiences. [9]
Peters together with Stephen Smith started developing the Euronews subsidiary Africanews in 2013. [10] Peters was appointed president of Africanews SASU in 2014 or 2015. In 2014 or 2015, he founded Africanews SASU, and was appointed as its first president. [11] He led the network through its digital launch on 4 January 2016, [11] and he served as its CEO. [12]
Peters left his position as Euronews' Executive Board Chairman in December 2021 and was appointed Euronews' Chairman of the board of directors. [13] Peters held this position until December 2022. [14] On January 1, 2023, Peters announced that he and Naguib Sawiris will be launching a new worldwide news media.<ref>[ citation needed ]
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