Christian Müller

Christian Müller works at the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) since January 2002. Currently, he is Deputy Secretary General and oversees, as well, the DAAD Berlin Office. From 2014 until June 2018, he was Director of the newly created department of strategy at DAAD head office.

He served at DAAD Brazil from 2009 to 2014, as director of the DAAD branch office in Rio de Janeiro. Simultaneously, he was President of the Board of the German Center for Science and Innovation (DWIH), São Paulo. Prior to this appointment, he was head of the Division “Communication and Marketing” at the DAAD in Bonn, leading the secretariat of the consortium GATE-Germany. In former years, he worked as university lecturer for German Language and Literature in Portugal (Aveiro) and Brazil (Campinas, Rio de Janeiro) as well as in the training of experts in development cooperation. His academic background is in Social Sciences and German Studies at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn.