Harald Heker

Harald Heker (* March 1, 1958 in Essen ) is CEO of GEMA.

Life

Harald Heker studied law in Munich and received his doctorate at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

From 1988 to 1990 Harald Heker worked as a lawyer and managing director of the Institute for Copyright and Media Law in Munich. From 1990 to 2000 he worked as a legal adviser of the Association of German Booksellers and was Co-Managing Director of Exhibition and Trade Fair GmbH of the Booksellers Association. Between 2001 and 2005 he took over the post of chief executive of the Booksellers Association and was from 2003 also served as CEO of Börsenverein mbH.

The Executive Board of GEMA heard Heker since 2006. The position of the Chairman, he has held since 2007. Hekers In the era of the strategic realignment of the collecting society fell. The distribution of music content is now to a large extent on the Internet.