Kurt Mueller, United States, is an MA student in the Security and Diplomacy Program at Tel Aviv University. After obtaining a BA in both International Studies and German from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he left the United States to travel and live abroad, visiting over 100 countries and crossing four continents by motorcycle while working as a language and literature tutor in China. Kurt is passionate about people, language, and culture the world over and hopes to bring concrete experience and academic study together into a career in international affairs and diplomacy.