Jürgen Diet is the Deputy Head of the Music Department in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. He holds a Diploma degree from the University of Karlsruhe in Industrial Engineering and a Master degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Before joining the Bavarian State Library in 2005 he worked for Siemens as a software engineer for 13 years. Mr. Diet has been the president of the German IAML-branch from 2012 until 2018. Since 2019 he is one of the IAML vice-presidents.