AFS Intercultural Programs, Global. Executive advisor at BP Helmut Schuster has joined AFS’s Board of Trustees for a three-year term. Advocating for diversity and inclusion and developing global competence in young people around the world is a major priority for Helmut. He helped create the innovative bp Global STEM Academies, a four-week international scholarship program for students from all backgrounds that combines STEM and intercultural learning. He studied international relations and completed his PhD in economics at the University of Vienna. Helmut is currently Chairman of Ivoclar Vivadent, and co-founder of Chirymoya, a social enterprise focused on building the next generation of empowered Colombians. A former board member at AFS Austria, Helmut is also an alumnus of AFS study abroad programs, from Austria to the USA in 1977.