Markus Ziener is a professor of journalism and head of the master's degree program at Media University Berlin. He teaches political theory and economics, mass media, journalistic writing, and press history. He also writes regularly for The Straits Times and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and contributes to the German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk/Deutschlandradio.
From 2006 to 2012, Ziener served as Washington bureau chief of Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading business daily. Prior to that, he worked as a field reporter, covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was also Handelsblatt’s correspondent in Moscow (1994–1999) and in Eastern Europe (1990–1994). He served as foreign editor at the Financial Times Deutschland from 1999 to 2001.
Ziener studied in Erlangen-Nuremberg and earned a PhD in political science from Humboldt University of Berlin, focusing on financial crises and reforms in Poland. He also held a research fellowship at Duke University. In 2021–22, he was the Helmut Schmidt Fellow at GMF. He has been a Berlin-based visiting senior fellow at GMF since 2022, analyzing transatlantic relations, Russia, and Ukraine.
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