Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz, born 1975, is a correspondent in the Washington office of DER SPIEGEL. He focuses primarily on the coverage for SPIEGEL ONLINE but also writes regularly for the magazine.

Prior to that, Schmitz was director of the Brussels office of Bertelsmann Foundation and in charge of all US activities of the foundation. He also gained job experience as an associate with Gruner und Jahr, Paris, and as a development aid worker in Latin America.

Schmitz holds a law degree from Munich University and is a graduate of Sciences-Po, Paris. He also earned graduate degrees in history from Cambridge University, Great Britain (M.Phil.), and Harvard University (MPA) where he was a McCloy-Scholar of the German National Merit Foundation. He spent a year as Visiting Fellow at Harvard's History Faculty where he conducted research for his disseration on legislation against Holocaust Denial.

Schmitz has published and written several books on Political Strategy and Political Communication and is a frequent commentator on Deutschlandfunk and WDR.