New radio correspondent for Southeast Asia
Radio SRF is strengthening its presence in Southeast Asia and creating a new correspondent position for this region. From fall 2015, Karin Wenger will report on countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Burma.
Karin Wenger, 35, studied media and political science in Fribourg in Üechtland, Ireland and at Birseit University in the West Bank. She was a freelance correspondent in the Middle East from 2004 to 2009, reporting for NZZ and Swiss Radio DRS, among others. She has lived in Delhi since October 2009 and reports and analyzes from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal as a South Asia correspondent for Radio SRF.
Karin Wenger will take up her new position as radio correspondent for the Southeast Asia region in fall 2015; her office location is yet to be determined. Her new reporting area includes countries with very complex political, ethnic and religious constellations. At the same time, these countries have great economic potential and will become even more important in the global context in the coming years. It has not yet been decided who will succeed Karin Wenger for the South Asia region.
