Andrea Pfeil is the Head of Language Department North West Europe at the
Goethe-Institut London. She received her MA degree in adult education, communication studies and German as a foreign language at the University of Education in Freiburg, Germany. Her other academic achievements include an MA in management of education from the University of Education in Ludwigsburg, Germany. She taught for a number of years at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow and attained the position of Language Course Director before taking the position of Multimedia Coordinator, Deputy Head of the Multimedia Department at the Goethe-Institut’s head office in Munich, Germany. Since 2000, Andrea Pfeil has held a number of academic positions as a German teacher beginning with Beijing University in China. She then held DAAD lecturer positions at Manchester, Strathclyde, and Glasgow Universities and a position as Teaching Fellow in German at the School of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Glasgow. From 2014 to 2021 Andrea Pfeil was Director of Language Department at the Goethe-Institut in New York.