Heidy Kessler is editor-in-chief of Rai Südtirol. Kessler, born in 1960, grew up in Dorf Tirol near Meran, studied economic and social history in Vienna and scienze politiche in Naples. She gained her first journalistic experience from 1982 at ORF in Vienna, Der Standard and Falter. She has worked at Rai Sender Bozen, now Rai Südtirol, since 1994, and as editor-in-chief since 2017.