Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, (Germany)

Dr Jörg Franke is Senior Advisor for International Affairs at the Ohm. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (T.H.), now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and has more than 25 years of higher education leadership experience in academia and administration.

After serving as senior lecturer and interim Chair of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Siegen, he worked as senior lecturer at the Vietnamese-German University in south Vietnam, where he also managed transnational bachelor’s and master’s programmes and supported double degrees, curriculum development and binational university building.