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Vanessa Steinmetz

Project Director Thailand and Vietnam Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

Short vita

Vanessa became the Project Director of the FNF offices in Thailand and Myanmar in 2023. Since 2024, she is also managing the FNF office in Vietnam. Before joining the foundation in 2020, she worked as a journalist for the German Press Agency (dpa), Süddeutsche Zeitung online and Spiegel online, among others. From 2016 to 2020, she was an editor in the foreign department of Spiegel/Spiegel Online, where she was responsible for the Asia section. She gained her first experience in the region as part of her journalism studies, during which she spent a semester abroad at the National Taiwan University in Taipei.