Dr Andreas Gothenberg was appointed Executive Director of STINT, The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, in 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2003. From 2006 until 2009 he was a Science and Technology Attaché at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo, Japan. Previous to that he was working as a Center Manager and Senior Researcher in China, setting up joint research and education centers for KTH Royal Institute of Technology at Zhejiang University and Fudan University. Dr Gothenberg has been a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology and is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also been with Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., and is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).