Born to an Italian father and German mother,^[1] Zamperoni was first introduced to presenting and journalism when he, after having obtained his Abitur, was in civilian service at the Radio Klinikfunk station in Wiesbaden.^[2] His parents had met in 1967 at Lake Maggiore. His father was a manager at Hoechst. Zamperoni has a brother four years younger, who is a practicing gynaecologist in Wiesbaden.^[3]

Between 1994 and 1999, Zamperoni studied American studies, law, and history at the University of Konstanz, and in Berlin and Boston.^[1][4]

After his studies, Zamperoni completed a traineeship at the NDR,^[5] after which he got a job in the NDR TV branch in Hamburg, for whom he worked as a subcontractor for the ARD and contributed to the Tagesschau and Tagesthemen broadcasts as a writer and reporter from 2002.^[5][1] He anchored the news show NDR Info, Niedersachsen 19.30 and as an anchor for the foreign magazine show Weltbilder (World Pictures).^[1]

On March 5, 2007, Zamperoni succeeded Anja Bröker as the moderator of the Nachtmagazin (Night Magazine) on the ARD flagship channel Das Erste,^[1] and until 2013, he – in constant rotation with the second host, Gabi Bauer – anchored the show.

In 2012, Zamperoni switched to the Tagesthemen team, replacing Susanne Holst as a substitute for Caren Miosga and Tom Buhrow.^[6] In addition to filling in for Miosga and Buhrow,^[7] he was scheduled to anchor Tagesthemen twelve weeks a year, and after Buhrow left the show, Zamperoni became a regular presenter.^[8]

In October 2013, it was announced on the ARD show Tagesschau Online that Zamperoni would move to Washington, D.C., on February 1, 2014, to become US correspondent for ARD.^[9]

Zamperoni returned to Germany from Washington, D.C., in October 2016, and on October 24, he became one of the main anchors of Tagesthemen, succeeding Thomas Roth,^[10] and in constant rotation with Caren Miosga and Pinar Atalay.^[11]

Since 2007, Zamperoni has been an ambassador for the children's aid organisation Save the Children,^[12] particularly focused on the educational programmes helping children in war zones.^[13] He is also an ambassador for the Bärenherz Foundation for seriously ill children.^[14]

In 2013, he was nominated as one of the top three contestants for the Newcomer of the Year prize presented by the German journalist trade magazine, Medium Magazin.^[15]

In 2006, Zamperoni married Jenniffer Bourguignon, an American,^[1] with whom he has three children.^[16] He speaks German, Italian, and English and enjoys cycle sport in his free time.^[17]

Zamperoni has dual Italian and German citizenship.^[18]

• Zamperoni, Ingo (2016). Fremdes Land Amerika: Warum wir unser Verhältnis zu den USA neu bewerten müssen (in German). Berlin: Ullstein Verlag. ISBN 978-3-550-08142-2.
• Zamperoni, Ingo (2018). Anderland – Die USA unter Trump, ein Schadensbericht (in German). Berlin: Ullstein Verlag. ISBN 978-3-550-05050-3.

• Literature by and about Ingo Zamperoni in the German National Library catalogue
• Ingo Zamperoni at IMDb