Markus Payer is founder and owner of waveL communications, 

Strategic Communications Consultant at Soitec (www.soitec.com), Chair of the Asteroid Foundation (www.asteroidday.org), and

Editor-in-Chief of SpaceWatch.Global (www.spacewatch.global).

He worked many years in senior positions in the global telco, space, chemical, and media sector, heading Communications & PR at the C-Band Alliance in Washington, DC, SES in Luxembourg, Syngenta in Basel (Switzerland), RTL Group in Luxembourg and Bertelsmann in Gütersloh (Germany).

During his journalistic career, he worked as reporter, correspondent and editor for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and Reuters.