Dr. René Höltschi has been the economic and business correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) in Berlin since September 2019. Before assuming this position, he was based in Zürich, Brussels, Vienna and Paris. He has been working for NZZ since 1988. Prior to becoming a journalist, he was a researcher at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. He studied economics at the University of St.Gallen.