Ludwig is The Economist’s Senior Editor of AI Initiatives, leading the newspaper’s efforts to adopt artificial intelligence in the newsroom and to develop new AI-powered editorial products. He joined The Economist as US technology correspondent in 1998. In 2003 he moved to Berlin as the newspaper’s Germany correspondent, before relocating to London in 2008 to cover the IT industry. In 2019 he returned to San Francisco as US technology editor, before moving again to Berlin as European business editor in early 2022.
Ludwig started his journalistic career in 1990 as the Paris business correspondent of Die Zeit, a German weekly. In 1995 he moved from France to California to write about the internet for several German publications. He holds a degree in economics and political science from Cologne University and degrees in journalism from the Kölner Journalistenschule and the Centre de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ) in Paris.