Gitte Zschoch

Gitte Zschoch took over as ifa Secretary General on 1 October 2021. From 2018 to 2021, she was the Director of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Brussels, the European network of organisations engaging in cultural relations. Previously, she worked for the Goethe-Institut in various positions in Seoul, Tokyo, Johannesburg and as Deputy Head of the Communications Division at the head office in Munich, and most recently as the Founding Director of the Goethe-Institut in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gitte Zschoch studied Comparative Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and Modern Korean Literature at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. In addition, she is a member of the advisory board and board of trustees of the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart and an expert member of the Committee for Culture and Media (AKM) of the municipal council of the city of Stuttgart.