Prof. Dr. Günter Bentele is Vice Chairman and a co-founder of the Guenter-Thiele-Foundation for Communication & Management.

He is an emeritus professor of Public Relations at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the Leipzig University. Prior to earning his Ph.D. and habilitation at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin), he studied German literature, linguistics, communication and media studies and political science in Munich and Berlin. At the moment, he researches and publishes on history of PR, ethics and trust.

Günter Bentele jointly heads the Center for History & Corporate Communication —an initiative of the Guenter Thiele Foundation —with Prof. Dr. Felix Krebber. As a co-founder of the Academic Society for Business Management and Communication, he is an honorary member.

He serves on several juries and advisory boards, as well as honorary chairman on the German Council for Public Relations (DRPR), the voluntary self-regulatory body for the public relations profession.