Markus Ziener
Markus Ziener (LinkedIn) is a professor of journalism and head of the MA 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 (Singapore) and the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and contributes to the German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk/
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). From 1999 to 2001, he served as foreign editor at the Financial Times Deutschland.
Originally from Darmstadt, Ziener studied in Erlangen-Nuremberg and earned his Ph.D. 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 North Carolina. In 2021–22, he was the Helmut Schmidt Fellow at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in Washington, D.C. Since 2022, he has been a visiting senior fellow at GMF in Berlin, where he focuses on transatlantic relations, Russia, and Ukraine.
