Bernd Widdig on "Lessons Learned in MIT's Large International Engagements": 18.01.2016 at ETH Zurich

Bernd Widdig is Director of International Affairs at MIT. Previously, he was Executive Director of Boston University Study Abroad, and he directed the Office of International Programs at Boston College, between 2007 and 2011. Previously, he served as Associate Director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI). In 1996, he founded the MIT-Germany Program. After receiving his Ph.D. in German Studies from Stanford University in 1989, he taught at MIT with a research focus on twentieth-century German culture. He is the author of numerous publications, among them Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany (2001). He holds a Staatsexamen from the University of Bonn, Germany. In 2008 he was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.