Conny Czymoch

HOST, PHOENIX (TV)

Conny Czymoch hosts "Phoenix - The day", the flag-ship news and current affairs program at Phoenix. She has interviewed and moderated conferences with international figures ranging from Kofi Annan to Nasa Boss Michael Griffin, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, the German Minister of Economic Cooperation, to - in the early days in Kenia - anti-human trafficking figurehead Lea Ackermann or Wangari Maathai, then creator of the Kenian Green Belt movement.

After studying economics and international relations at Reading University, UK, Conny Czymoch returned to Cologne to undergo her journalistic training, then worked for a year for Hong Kong TV and Radio, before being a freelance radio author for Deutschlandfunk, WDR, Deutsche Welle.  

Switching media - from radio to TV (Sat1, CNN, Phoenix) - and adding the conference stage, Conny has for the past 20 years been a moderator/facilitator with competence and a smile. At national and international events she has specialized in "translating": between politicians and "normal" people, between young and old, between top management and the shop floor.  Two big areas of interest have been the main focus of her work: making technological advances and future developments like astronautics, Microsystems technology, ITC, understandable, to a specialized or a general audience, and equally: concentrating on issues of global economic cooperation and social integration, ranging from the reduction of HIV Aids or hunger, to international migration and the labor markets, and human trafficking.