[1] Previously, Klusmann was deputy editor-in-chief at magazines such as Stern, Financial Times Deutschland, Capital and Business Punk.
After his training at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists in Düsseldorf, he worked for several years as an editor in the Department of Economics and Politics for the journal WirtschaftsWoche.
In 1999 he moved to the editorial department of the new newspaper Financial Times Deutschland (FTD), which appeared in February 2000.
In August 2004 he went back to the FTD, where he received the editor-in-chief position as successor to Christoph Keese.
[2] Klusmann is an honorary jury member at "Top 100", an award for the most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany.