Nicola Leske
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Nicola Leske 

EVP Corporate Communications & Sustainability   
DHL
Germany

 

Nicola Leske is one of a cadre of journalists who have ended up in corporate communications leadership roles around the world: until 10 years ago she had spent 14 years at Thomson Reuters working on beats across Europe and the US, from the Berlin foreign news desk, to biotech correspondent, to covering technology, telecoms and media M&As in New York.

Given her focus on tech, it was fitting that her first in-house role was head of global media relations at German business software giant SAP, where she became chief communications officer in 2017. She had a one year stint in strategic corporate comms advisory as a managing partner at German independent consultancy Gauly, before moving back in-house last summer, into her current role as EVP for corporate communications and sustainability at global logistics and delivery firm DHL, reporting director to CEO Tobias Meyer.