title: Verena Metze-Mangold
text: # Verena Metze-Mangold
  
  Verena Metze-Mangold (born 7 October 1946) is a German political scientist,. journalist, and the former president of the German Commission for UNESCO.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Verena Metze-Mangold was born in Kassel on 7 October 1946. Verena Metze-Mangold holds a PhD in political science, sociology and history.
  
  ## Career
  
  Metze-Mangold is an expert in intercultural communication who specialises in the freedom of the press and information, media and network policy, international law and WTO.
  
  Metze-Mangold headed the Protestant Media Academy (cpa) at the Gemeinschaftswerk der Evangelischen Publizistik (GEP) in Frankfurt from 1976 to 1987.
  
  From 1987 to 2011, Metze-Mangold working in the directorate of Hessischer Rundfunk, where she was head of press and public relations until 1993
  
  From 1997 to 2014, Metze-Mangold was the vice president of the German Commission for UNESCO, which she had been a member of since 1982. Between 2014 and 2018, Metze-Mangold was the president of the German Commission for UNESCO.
  
  On 19 October 2019, Metze-Mangold was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her voluntary work. In 2019, Metze-Mangold joined the advisory board of Candid Foundation
  
  