Tanya König

Tanya König is a multilingual TV presenter, reporter, moderator, show host, and digital producer. In January 2021, she launched Swizz Art Biz, a video podcast where she interviews major players in the art world. She is also video producer and presenter for the platform finance.swiss, a public-private partnership that highlights the latest going-on in the country’s vast financial landscape, and she is a freelance journalist at ElleXX.com.

From 2017-2020, König worked at CNN Money Switzerland where she hosted and produced interviews and programs on art, culture, and lifestyle as well as reporting on entrepreneurs and their start-up journeys. Her art market interviews were mentioned by the Financial Times, The New York Times, artnet news, and The Art Newspaper.

In 2014, she worked as multimedia editor for Swiss National Television (SRF) and became the Online-Host of «The Voice of Switzerland». She started volunteering for TEDxZurich as a storyteller and moderator of the event in 2014 and is now the host of the TEDxZurichSalon and TEDxZurichWomen events.

She has written for newspapers and magazines, including a weekly movie review for Blick am Abend from 2014-2017. She has also contributed to the program «Hora dos Portugueses» on Portuguese National Television (RTPi) and reported on the Portuguese diaspora and their businesses in Switzerland.

She received her BA degree in Sinology with a minor in political science from the University of Zurich and studied in Beijing for one year. Before that, she attended the Ringier School of Journalism, where she produced her own packages as video journalist for Blick, Cash, and Schweizer-Illustrierte.

Tanya König was born in Australia to a Sino-Portuguese mother and Swiss father and grew up in Australia, Portugal and Switzerland.