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Tanya König is a reporter, moderator, show host and digital producer.
In January 2021, she launched Swizz Art Biz, a video podcast where she interviews major players in the art world. She is also video producer and anchor for the platform finance.swiss, a public-private partnership that highlights the latest going-on in the country’s vast financial landscape.
From 2017-2020, Tanya König worked at CNN Money Switzerland, where she hosted and produced interviews and programs on art, culture and lifestyle as well as reporting on entrepreneurs and their start-up journeys. Interviewees include Iwan Wirth, Eva Presenhuber, Dominique Lévy, Simon de Pury, François Curiel and Ai Weiwei. Her interview with Dominique Lévy was quoted in The New York Times, Financial Times, artnet news, and The Art Newspaper.
Tanya König – Your Moderator for Events, Tradeshows, Conferences and Gala’s.
In 2014, Tanya König worked as multimedia editor for Swiss National Television (SRF) and became the Online-Host of «The Voice of Switzerland». She started volunteering for TEDxZurich as a storyteller and moderator of the event in 2014 and is now the host of the TEDxZurichSalon and TEDxZurichWomen events.
Tanya König has written for newspapers and magazines, including a weekly movie review for Blick am Abend from 2014-2017. She has also contributed to the program «Hora dos Portugueses» on Portuguese National Television (RTPi) and reported on the Portuguese diaspora and their businesses in Switzerland.
She received her BA degree in Sinology with a minor in political science from the University of Zurich and studied in Beijing for one year. Before that, she attended the Ringier School of Journalism, where she produced her own packages as video journalist for Blick, Cash and Schweizer-Illustrierte as the very first video journalist in the history of Ringier School of Journalism.
Tanya König was born in Australia to a Sino-Portuguese mother and Swiss father and grew up in Australia, Portugal and Switzerland.
