DAAD, Germany. The German Academic Exchange Service has appointed the former Head of the Department of International Affairs at University of Bonn Kai Sicks as its new Secretary General. He will take over from Dorothea Rüland in spring 2021. In Kai, DAAD is gaining the services of an extremely experienced science manager with extensive experience in the internationalisation of the higher education system, the organisation said. Kai’s responsibilities at the University of Bonn included expanding the university’s internationalisation in research, studies and administration. He has also been managing director of the Bonn Graduate Centre and established a European doctoral and research network with partner institutions in Bergamo, Helsinki, Lisbon and Stockholm. Kai studied at the University of Vienna, the University of Cologne and Goethe University Frankfurt. Scholarships took him to such institutions as the German Historical Institute in Washington DC and Cornell University. He is expected to take up his post as Secretary General of the DAAD in February 2021.