Markus N. Beeko (born 1967 inCologne) is aGermanhuman rights activist and Secretary General of the German section ofAmnesty International.[1][2]
Having studied marketing, organization and traffic safety atUniversity of Cologne from 1988 to 1994, Beeko completed his education with aMaster degree inBusiness Administration; he then worked for theadvertising agency LINTAS for five years and from 2000 to 2004, at Prognos AG, an economic research and consulting company in Europe, where he was in charge of corporate communications.[3][4]
From 2004, Beeko headed the campaign andcommunications department of the German section ofAmnesty International,[5] and was also a member ofInstitute for Global Communications at Amnesty International's secretariat inLondon.
On September 1, 2016, Beeko took the office of the German section of Amnesty International, succeeding Selmin Çalışkan.[2]