Hans G. Lingens (California Lutheran University) has participated in every CIES national and Western Regional conference since he joined CIES in 1975! Lingens began his studies in Germany and received his B.S., M.S. and Ed.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, where his areas of study were curriculum and instruction and international education. His dissertation was a study of the Gesamtschule in Germany and his subsequent monograph was translated into Arabic. As a graduate student, Lingens also taught biology, chemistry, physics, and German in Los Angeles public schools and later he served as researcher in the LAUSD district's office of research and evaluation.

After retiring from the LAUSD, Lingens taught as a full-time faculty since 1987 at California Lutheran University. At California Lutheran he supervised students in both the teacher training as well as in advanced studies programs in research methods and multicultural issues in education. Although Lingens retired this past year from California Lutheran, his affiliation with the university continues, he is involved with many students, and he continues to pursue several of his initiatives there. Hans Lingens serves as editor of European Education, a quarterly journal on selected topics of current interest in the European Union and surround areas. He is also on the editorial board of the journal World Studies in Education. Hans has spent the past twenty-seven years supporting CIES and is eager to contribute his experience to the CIES board of directors.