Christoph Eisenring
Senior Fellow and Head of Programs and Research
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Short biography
Dr. Christoph Eisenring joined Avenir Suisse in June 2024 as Senior Fellow and Head of the Research Program. Prior to this, he had worked as an economics correspondent and editor at the «Neue Zürcher Zeitung» since 2001, writing several thousand articles. He then became deputy head of the economics section. He studied economics in Bern and Maastricht. He is married and has two children.
Education:
Post-doctorate and lecturing at Boston University; doctorate in political science at the University of Berne with a thesis in the field of health economics (1999); one-year doctoral program at the Swiss National Bank’s Gerzensee study center; bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Berne (1995); exchange semester at Maastricht University
Professional Experience:
Joined the economics newsroom of the «Neue Zürcher Zeitung» in 2011. NZZ economics correspondent in Frankfurt (2004–09), Washington DC (2009–14) and Berlin (2014–19). Deputy head of the economics section (2023–24). Since 2015, lecturer for the seminar «Brennpunkt Wirtschaftspolitik - Ökonomie im Kampf der Argumente» at the University of Zurich.