Miriam Meckel served as the State Secretary, she was a professor of communication sciences and wrote textbooks on cyberpolitics.
From 2001-2005, Meckel served as the State Secretary at the department of the Premier of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia and government spokeswoman, and later the State Secretary for Europe, International Affairs and Media. From 1999 to 2001 she was a professor of communication sciences at the University of Munster in Germany. Her publications include texts on media economics, communication, and cyberpolitics; in 2010 she wrote about her experience with burn-out syndrome. 
