Robin Mallick was born in Wuppertal (Germany) in 1970. After finishing studies of International Cultural and Business Studies at the University of Passau (Germany) and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), he moved on to Dresden. From 2000 until 2009 he was festival director at Filmfest Dresden - International Short Film Festival. In addition he was general secretary of the European Coordination of Film Festivals, which comprised a network of some 250 festivals, between 2002 and 2007. Since June 2009, he has worked as regional programme director South Asia at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi