Johanna M. Keller has been the program director at the Academy of Arts in Berlin since October 2022. Prior to the Academy of Arts, she worked for the Goethe-Institut in Syria, Lithuania, Egypt, and Germany. As director of the Goethe-Institut in Lithuania (2010-2015) and as head of cultural affairs for the Goethe-Institut based in Cairo (2015-2018), she initiated and oversaw numerous interdisciplinary programs before establishing a department for third-party funding management at the headquarters in Munich in 2019.