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Diane Freiberger has been involved in higher education for more than 25 years. She started as a lecturer at the Catholic Academy for Social Work in Munich. After that, she took a brief detour into business and was a PR manager for six years.  In 2006, she returned to the field of university management.  Before she took over the management of FIBAA in 2020, Diane Freiberger was Managing Director of the Business School at the FH Kufstein Tirol University of Applied Sciences in Austria and Vice Rector at the same university for five years. In the course of all these activities, Diane Freiberger has been involved in quality assurance issues, especially in the area of digital transformation of teaching and learning. In recent years, she has been involved in national and international study projects and conferences on and has published about these topics. 

Michael Stephan has been working for a publishing company for several years, among other activities researching, co-writing and co-editing guides about study programmes in business, economics, and engineering. Before joining FIBAA in 2021, he has been working for six years for an international corporate HR quality assurance enterprise. At FIBAA, Michael Stephan has been conducting national as well as international accreditation and certification projects as a project manager and took over the position as division manager certifications in 2022. In this task, he is in charge of the FIBAA quality seals “for certified continuing education courses” and “Excellence in Digital Education”®.