Career
Whilst in secondary education, 1974–1977, Conny Czymoch was already a freelancer with the Wuppertal edition of the regional paper Neue Rhein Zeitung in Essen. She gained her A-levels in 1977, and subsequently was awarded a Bachelor in International Relations and Economics from the University of Reading, United Kingdom in 1980. She entered a journalistic training programme at Deutschlandfunk, DLF, a national radio station based in Cologne, Germany, and became a qualified editor at the end of 1981.
In 1982, she reported for and produced a weekly current affairs magazine with Radio Television Hong Kong, RTHK. During this time she also reported for several German radio stations.
From 1984 to 1986 she worked as an editor, reporter and presenter at the WDR Cologne studio, turning back to freelancing from 1986 for a number of programmes at DLF, WDR, Deutsche Welle Radio and television, where she contributed to the political magazine "Focus on Europe" and Cable News Network World Report. In 1992 and 1993 Conny was a news anchor at the commercial station SAT1 in Hamburg.
Following this, she was author and presenter of programs at DLF, Deutsche Welle and WDR, concentrating on issues of political, social and cultural relevance. Foreign two years Conny was the anchor for the German and English language political magazine at DW television, "Standpunkte / Perspectives”.
During the 90’s she also trained young journalists at the Academy for Journalism in Hamburg and later in Munich.
1997 Conny joined the new television station Phoenix, where she has been an anchor for several formats, most recently the late evening news show "DER Technical Architecture Group". In the fall of 2009, she was the first European journalist to moderate at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on the topic "Leadership and Solutions to End Human Trafficking and Forced Labor". She has also hosted conferences and events with the like of the former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, the former National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief Michael Griffin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Foreign several years, Conny has been an advocate against human trafficking and for women"s rights, working for the Not for Sale campaign and Terre des Femmes.
Conny is based out of both London and near Cologne with her partner and is the mother of a grown son.
