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Puk Damsgård Andersen (born 18. september 1978 in Hammer-Torup between Næstved and Præstø) is a Danish journalist and author. Puk Damsgård is married to an American, whom she met in Pakistan, where he worked as an aircraft mechanic. From the summer of 2011 she is DR's Middle Eastern-correspondent based in Kairo.

Education and career
Puk Damsgård went through the 3-year acting school at Holberg's Movie + Theater School 1999-2001. In the summer of 2004 she traveled to Pakistan for the first time and got hooked and curious to know more about the Pakistanis and their nation. In 2007 she finished a bachelor in journalism from University of Southern Denmark in Odense, and she has studied Arabic languages and Middle-Eastern studies at its open university. During her studies, she took a leave to participate in the Galathea 3-expedition, and she reported about the route from Cape Town in South Africa to Australia. After she finished her studies, she was hired as an education journalist on Jyllands-Posten but quit after a few months. She has lived in the Middle East as a freelance journalist for DR, Jyllands-Posten and Kristeligt Dagblad. In addition to that, she has written for multiple non-Danish news papers, for example New York Times. From 2011 she was hired as DR's correspondent in the Middle East; first based in Beirut in Lebanon and since 2013 in Cairo in Egypt.