*** DAAD appoints new President ***
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the largest organization of academic exchange worldwide, has appointed a new President whose term will start at the beginning of 2020. Professor Joybrato Mukherjee, President of Giessen’s Justus Liebig University, received the large majority vote from representatives of the 241 member universities and 104 student bodies in Bonn, Germany on June 2019. Congratulations!
Professor Mukherjee is the son of Indian immigrants and born in the Rhineland. He studied English, Biology and Education at RWTH Aachen University and received his doctorate in English Linguistics from the University of Bonn in 2000. Since 2012 and with a reappointment in 2015, Prof. Mukharjee has assumed the role of Vice-President for DAAD.
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German News Service
