Angelika Simma-Wallinger studied Communication and Political Science at the University of Vienna (PhD) and Communication at the Danube University Krems. She has been working for ORF for more than 15 years. She has been a radio journalist at Ö3, moderated the children’s news on television, conceived and conducted an audience-interactive discussion format on ORFeins and eventually became the office manager in the television directorate. In 2015, the year in which people fled to Europe from the war in Syria, she moved from the media company to Caritas, where she was in charge of the Austrian-wide communication. Since 2019, she is a university teacher at the InterMedia degree program at the FH Vorarlberg.