Roger de Weck is an author based in Zurich and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. He was a member of the Future Council for Reforms at ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandfunk, Director General of SRG, Editor-in-Chief of Die Zeit and Tages-Anzeiger, Chairman of the Board of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and presenter of Sternstunden Philosophie.
Raised bilingually in Fribourg, he studied economics with a focus on economic history at the University of St.Gallen and began his career in journalism at the Tribune de Genève. In 2022, he published Die Kraft der Demokratie – Eine Antwort auf die autoritären Reaktionäre with Suhrkamp. In 2024, he published his latest book Das Prinzip Trotzdem – Warum wir den Journalismus vor den Medien retten müssen.
Roger de Weck sits on the advisory board of the St.Gallen Collegium at the University of St.Gallen, on the scientific advisory board of the journal Critique Internationale (SciencesPo Paris), the Board of Trustees of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen and the Board of SOS Méditerranée (sea rescue ship Ocean Viking). De Weck holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Fribourg and Lucerne.
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