For our first Gen A roundtable in 2024, we are sitting down with Katrin Büchenbacher, Editor at the Foreign Affairs Desk of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 

Join us for this exclusive conversation and bring your own questions to the table! 

Katrin Büchenbacher was born in 1992 in the canton of Baselland, Switzerland. She studied media sciences, contemporary history and law in Fribourg, and holds a Dual Master's degree in Global Media and Communication from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and the School of Journalism of Fudan University in Shanghai. 

At the beginning of her career, Katrin carried parallel internships and freelance work in local journalism and political communication. After graduating in 2017, she became an editor for the Chinese media "Global Times" in Beijing and was simultaneously a freelancer for online magazines specialized in China. In 2019, she moved to the Chinese broadcaster CGTN. In 2020, she pursued a traineeship at "PRO Global Asia" in the Foreign Affairs Desk of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.  

Since 2021, Katrin has been a Foreign Affairs Editor of the NZZ responsible for the dossiers on China, society, women, social policy, and the intersection of technology and politics. She is particularly interested in China's changing society, political landscape, and geopolitical reality. Katrin speaks, reads and writes German, Chinese, French and English.  

Resources and Preparation Material

Complete resources and preparation material for the discussion with the speaker will be published online two weeks before the roundtable.

"Von einer auf hundert Millionen", Katrin Büchenbacher, NZZ, October 4, 2023. (In German).

"His grandmother was disappointed that her beloved eldest grandson had fallen in love. She would have preferred to find a wife for him herself. A Chinese love story", Katrin Büchenbacher, NZZ, September 4, 2020. (In German). 

"The Complex Nationalism of China’s Gen-Z" by Brian Wong, The Diplomat, June 19, 2022.

"Who Killed the Chinese Economy?", Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Michael Pettis and Adam S. Posen, Foreign Affairs, October 3, 2023.

"No, the World Is Not Multipolar", Jo Inge Bekkevold, Foreign Policy, September 22, 2023.

"Mob Diplomacy", Mark Leonard, Project Syndicate, February 24, 2023.

"In Tanzania, Beijing is running a training school for authoritarianism", Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios, August 20, 2023.