Gabriele Steinhauser
Africa Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal
Gabriele Steinhauser is The Wall Street Journal’s Africa bureau chief, based in Johannesburg, from where she manages a team of correspondents covering the continent and reports on life, politics, economics and public health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Since 2016, she has chronicled the fall of some of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, the economic and social fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine as well as increased geopolitical competition for influence and the region’s resources.
Gabriele moved to Johannesburg in 2016 from Brussels, where she covered the eurozone debt crisis as well as climate and energy policies. She previously worked as a business writer for the Associated Press and an editor on the Journal's Europe desk in Brussels and London.
Born in Munich, Germany, Gabriele holds a master's in international relations from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a master's from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.