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Inge Herman (Executive Director) joined the Huntsman Program six years ago. As the Executive Director, she manages the Program as a whole, serves as the primary academic advisor for Huntsman students and works closely with the Office of Admissions, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton Undergraduate Division as well as External Affairs. She also oversees Huntsman specific internships abroad and the newly established annual Reinsberg Lecture. Prior to her tenure in the Huntsman Program, Inge was Overseas Program Manager in the Office of International Programs, where she advised Huntsman and other Penn students on their semester and academic year abroad and she also served as a pre-major Academic Advisor for College of Arts and Sciences students at the University of Pennsylvania for many years. A native of Germany, she studied economics, French and English at the Georg-August-Universität and subsequently matriculated at Miami University, where she later taught language, literature and cultural studies in the Department of German, Russian and East Asian Literature and served as faculty director of several summer programs, including an intensive language program in Heidelberg and Berlin before coming to Penn. She is an active member of national and international organizations in the field of education abroad, including NAFSA: Association for International Educators. Inge holds a B.A. in English Literature from Miami University and a M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Cincinnati.