Monika S. Schmid FAcSS FBA (born 1967) is a German linguist who specialises in language attrition.

Monika Schmid began studying at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) in 1990, where she was president of their student parliament.

[1] While interviewing survivors of the Holocaust in Germany, she learned about the importance of the transmission of native language from parent to child.

She has organized, chaired and facilitated several conferences, meetings, and seminars bringing together researchers in the field of Language Attrition.

Schmid has contributed to BBC News, the Berliner Zeitung, The Conversation, The Guardian, Svenska Dagbladet, and de Volkskrant, either as an author or as a quoted expert.