Rainer Nowak is Chairman of the Management Board of Die Presse and President of the Austrian Publishers' Association (VÖZ). He began his journalism career in 1996 at Die Presse, serving as Editor-in-Chief and Publisher from 2012 to 2023. After leading the Politics and Business desk at Kronen Zeitung and serving as Deputy Editor-in-Chief, he returned to Die Presse in 2025. An award-winning journalist, he is the co-author of several books on politics and society.