Ivo Mijnssen
Ivo Mijnssen was born in Zurich in 1982. He studied sociology and Eastern European history.
In May 2015 he completed his dissertation at the University of Basel on the political and social role of the memory of the Second World War in the Soviet Union. He completed his bachelor's degree at Brown University in the USA and spent a long time doing research at Stanford University, Ukraine and various Russian cities during his doctorate.
In addition, he worked regularly as a journalist, including for the “Velojournal”, the website truthdig.com and the NZZ. After completing a traineeship in the International Department, he was responsible for Central and Eastern Europe as an editor from May 2015. He has been a correspondent in Vienna since April 2019 and writes about Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Source: NZZ.ch
