The workshop series International Dialogue on Education Berlin is a joint initiative of the British Council Germany, the German Academic Exchange Service, the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Australian Group of Eight and the Canadian Bureau for International Education in Berlin.
Through the contributions of international participants the series aims to enrich the debate on science, research and higher education policy in Germany, to place German perspectives in a global context and to learn from positive examples from other countries.
Hilary Childs-Adams
Hilary Childs-Adams is Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin. From 2003-2006, she served as Director, Western Europe Division, at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa. She was Political Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Brussels from 1999-2003 and had earlier postings in New York and Mexico City.
In Ottawa she has also worked in the areas of international energy and environmental relations, federal-provincial relations, public diplomacy, media relations, as well as on Latin America, and on the United Nations. She speaks English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and some Portuguese.
