Michael Thumann
2019/20 Mercator-IPC Senior FellowMichael Thumann has been the diplomatic correspondent of Die Zeit since 2013 and is based in Berlin. Prior to that, he reported on Turkey and the Middle East as Die Zeit’s Istanbul Bureau Chief. In 2014/15 and between 1996 and 2001, he reported on Russia and Central Asia as the Moscow Bureau Chief of Die Zeit. From 2002 until 2007, he served as the foreign editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg. In 2010 he was a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC. In 2000, he joined the Kennan Institute with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWIC) in Washington, DC, as a Public Policy Scholar. Until 2009 he served on the advisory council of WWIC.
