executive

The manager, Dr. Lydia Hüskens, represents the Studentenwerk to the outside and leads the current affairs.

Dr. Lydia Hüskens was born in Geldern in North Rhine-Westphalia and studied history, political science and journalism after finishing high school in Münster. Here she also got her PhD on the subject Vereine und Politik. Politische Vereine exemplarisch untersucht für den Kreis Geldern in den Reichsgründungsjahren und während des Kulturkampfes.

She then worked from 1990 to 1992 as a PR consultant in Mülheim an der Ruhr. 
Between 1992 and 2002, Dr. Hüskens worked as a government employee in the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment of Saxony-Anhalt. From 2011 to 2014 she worked in the Ministry of Science and Economics of the State of Saxony-Anhalt as Representative Head of Unit ''Universities''.

Dr. Hüskens is married, has two children and lives in Magdeburg.