Michael Hörig

Title
Head of Division Strategic Planning
Company
DAAD, (German Academic Exchange Service)
Bio
As Head Of Division Strategic Planning, IMichealsupervises the work of five sections at the DAAD headquarters: Higher Education Policy, Monitoring & Evaluation, Sustainable Development, German Studies and Studies & Research.

Previously, he was in charge of the Section ‘Development Cooperation: Partnership Programmes and Higher Education Management / P32’, a section responsible for university partnership programmes with developing countries and capacity development projects in the field of higher education management.

Having worked at the European Level before, he enjoys participating actively in EU funded projects. Within the project ‘European Union Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region’ (SHARE), He is active as an expert on Qualifications Frameworks.

From January 2011 to December 2014, Michael was the Head of Section for ‘West and Central Africa and the Centres of African Excellence’ at DAAD. During this period, he contributed significantly to the conceptualisation and the drafting of DAAD's Africa Strategy.

Before joining DAAD, he worked as a programme manager at the European University Association (EUA) in Brussels, Belgium. He coordinated European projects and contributed to policy development for the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).