Marie-Astrid Langer is the US foreign correspondent in Silicon Valley for the leading Swiss-German newspaper NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), covering technology and society since 2018.
Born in Zweibrücken, Germany, in 1985, she spent a high-school year in Providence, Rhode Island, and studied International Business Administration in Tübingen and Santiago de Chile. Parallel to her studies, she completed a fellowship by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for young journalists and several internships, among them the foreign affairs department of ‘Der Spiegel’ in Washington, DC. After graduating with an MBA, she attended the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg.
Since 2011, Langer has worked for NZZ in various reporter roles, from finance reporter to US politics editor. In 2015, she was the Arthur F. Burns Fellow at the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. In 2021, her book “Kamala Harris: A Portrait” about the Vice President was published, the first biography on Harris in German. She has received numerous awards for her work, like the George F. Kennan Award for transatlantic commentary. She currently lives in San Francisco.