Nina Lemmens has been Director for the Asia-Pacific Department of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) head office in Bonn since September 2006. In this role, she is responsible for a new DAAD initiative to enhance the academic exchange between Germany and India – A New Passage to India. From 2000 to 2006, she was the Director of the DAAD London office; previously she acted as head of the department dealing with placements of academic staff in Western Europe and North America in the DAAD. Prior to this she was the assistant to the DAAD Board as well as press officer. After finishing her PhD, Nina worked as personal assistant for a MP in the German parliament for one year. Nina studied art history and worked as a freelance journalist for ten years.

Dr Lemmens contributed to session 8d - UKIERI: why grow international education partnerships with India