Dr. Georg Schütte holds the position of the State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. He completed degrees in journalism at the Dortmund University and the City University of New York. He is a Fulbright Alumnus and was –among others- Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. After completing his PhD he started his career at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn. From 2001-2003 he was Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission in Berlin.