He's from 
the United States, and works for Elon University in North Carolina, USA. He worked in student mobility at Elon for the last 14 years, with both incoming and outgoing students but now he's Director of Accreditation and Assessment for the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education. He's a first-year student, and he's researching the meaning in application of mobility experience in retrospect.
She's Italian and currently serves as the Academic Director for the Accademia Europea di Firenze, Elon University Center (North Carolina, USA) in Italy. Prior to this role, she has spent 10 years teaching Italian Language and Culture and was responsible for Student Life and Community Engagement at her institution. She's a first-year student and her research interest is researching the transformative potential of aesthetic experiences in U.S. study abroad programs in Florence and Tuscany, and how sensory learning can contribute to the development of students' intercultural learning.
She is Finnish, and belongs to the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland. She's worked in IHE for 19 years, currently as Senior Policy Advisor, Internationalisation, at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. She is also an elected member of the EAIE Expert Community for Strategy & Management 2022-24, an appointed member of the EAIE Thematic Committee for Leadership, Strategy and Policy 2024-2026, and a Working Group Member of the ENIS network (European Network for International Student Mobility). She's a first-year student, her research topic is exploring external stakeholder influence on the willingness and ability of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Finland to employ international students and graduates.
He works at the University of Michigan School of Information as the Global Engagement Program Manager, where he manages international partnerships, mobility programs, and serves as an intermittent lecturer for several courses. His research focuses on understanding COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) as a values-based endeavor. Specifically, he is seeking to identify shared values expressed by COIL practitioners and researchers across contexts in the hopes of discovering unique and similar approaches to COIL around the world. He's a second-year student.
She's from Colombia, based in Canada. She works as an independent advisor in internationalization of higher education, mainly for Latin American Universities, focused on strategy development and staff training. She's also a tutor at the Institute for University Management and Leadership (IGLU) & the Internationalization of Higher Education Diploma (DIES) from the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE). Former Director of Internationalization at Tecnológico de Antioquia-IU (Medellín, Colombia). Her research seeks to understand the linkages between Internationalization and University Social Responsibility in Colombian higher education. She's a second-year student.
She's a Chilean woman, born in Punta Arenas and raised in the Falklands Islands. She currently holds a position as Director of Social Engagement, at a regionally oriented university in Temuco, south of Chile. She is a second year PhD student. Her research topic is: Exploring the Connections Between Community Engagement and Internationalization in Universities in Regional Chile: A Multisite Case Study. This research tends to incorporate new voices and groups of people normally marginalized in IoHE, moving away from northern hegemonic patterns and constructs, in a search to imagine internationalization differently.
She's Italian and has lived in many different cities: in Cairo (Egypt), Jerusalem, Marseille and in several cities in Italy from Naples to Pavia and Rome. Now she's been living in Palermo, Sicily, since September 2022 where she's moved with the family. She's a second year PhD student. She's a professional in higher education and internationalisation in Middle East and North African countries within the field of international cooperation and development. She works as Senior Project Manager at UNIMED (Network of Mediterranean Universities) where she joined the International Projects and Networking Unit in 2013. Furthermore, she acts as international consultant for the World Bank since 2011 with programs on university governance, quality assurance, financing of higher education and internationalisation in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq and Kurdistan region of Iraq, dealing with policy analysis, desk research and fieldwork, benchmark study and consultancy provided to the Ministries of higher education and related HEIs of the target countries.
My PhD research focuses on analysing the interaction between domestic and international actors in the development and implementation of higher education internationalisation in Tunisia's higher education system at different stages of the higher education policy process: priority setting, policy formulation, and policy implementation. Through the policy borrowing theory, my research will contribute to providing a new lens towards IoHE in Tunisia and give recommendations to local actors to re-engage with international actors and to better shape IoHE strategies.
He's Italian and serves as Executive Director of The Florence Academy of Art. He's a third-year PhD student. Overall, his research interest lies in international students’ social and academic experiences. My research project at CHEI explores agency trajectories of international students. Aim of this project is to expand current scientific knowledge on international students’ agency, hoping to inform institutional practices to foster and support students’ agency. His experience in international education started 17 years ago at New York University and includes 9 years as Academic Director at Accademia Europea di Firenze, Elon University Center in Italy. He's part of the management committee of the European network on International Student Mobility: Connecting Research and Practice (ENIS) within the COST Action CA20115.
She's currently a third-year PhD student from the United States. She works at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and serves as assistant director of study abroad programs for business students. Her proposed research explores "hybrid exchange programs," which are study abroad programs that are linked to pre-departure virtual exchange programs.
She's a Czech/Swede working at Halmstad University in Sweden where she supports activities related to internationalisation of the curriculum and internationalisation at home. In her research, she explores the support mechanisms provided by Swedish universities to academics engaged in internationalising the curriculum at home, as well as examining the scope of continuing professional development opportunities available to them and why some of the opportunities are working for certain academics and not for others. She's a third year student.
He's Italian and he works at the University of Bologna where he's working as UNIBO Senior Local Lead of the Una Europa Alliance. He's also adjunct professor at the Department of Education of UNIBO, teaching Master students how to write EU Projects. He's interested to research the “transformation” potential of the European Universities Initiative, and in particular how the participation of HEIs in this Initiative can move their internationalisation practices from exceptionalism to institutionalisation. I's a third-year student.
She's from Grenada, the Spice Isle of the Caribbean. She works at the Universidad de Guadalajara-Valley Campus in Jalisco, Mexico. In addition to being a tenured professor, she's been the Programme Director for the Bachelor of Education degree and the Head of Scholarship and Academic Exchange at the same institution. She's a third-year student interested in "Connecting Service Learning (SL) and the Internationalisation of Higher Education for Society (IHES) in Mexico through the Development of Students' Glonacal Agency”.
She's currently working as an educational manager for international projects at the University of Padua in Italy. Before this she's been working for 15 years as an International Officer at the University of Trieste. She's Italian, she was born in Switzerland and grew up in Germany, and I tell you this because I think that besides being my job, internationalisation and all possible connected intercultural topics are part of my DNA. I received a Master’s degree in Translation and Interpretation, later on I gained the Teaching license for German as a second language and a Vocational master in Public communication. Languages, Education and Communication are my main interest areas. My research focuses on sensemaking theories in relation to stakeholder engagement within the specific framework of the European Universities Initiative (EUI). I’ve been specifically looking at the crucial role of middle managers in international transformative processes within Higher Education Institutions. I’m looking forward to meeting with like-minded colleagues, and to listening and getting inspired by the Academic team.
Albert is a Dutch internationalist, working at the Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands.
His research topic is the strategic and transformational potential of International Institutional Networks, with a focus on European Universities Initiative alliances.
Albert joined the PhD programme in 2021 and is undertaking his research under the supervision of Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans and Hans de Wit.
Fabio was born in Brazil, but his current home base is the US. His professional experience includes working as a bilingual teacher in the US, as well as teaching at schools, universities, and programs in Asia. These experiences have contributed to the development of his research interest in the topic of Internationalisation and Positioning of Higher Education in Indonesia. His supervisors are Stephen C. Dunnett and Hiroshi Ota. Fabio joined the PhD programme in 2020.
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John is the Senior International Office and Dean for the College of Extended Education and International Programs at California State University Monterey Bay, USA.
His research is on intercultural learning through interactions among globally diverse students: internationalization at home and collaborative engagement.
John joined the doctoral programme in 2021 and he is undertaking his research under the supervision of Karen M. Lauridsen and John L. Dennis.
Marta works in 
the Department of International Academic Relations at the ESADE Foundation (holder of ESADE Business and Law Schools).
Her research topic is Assessment of International Capacity Building Projects in Higher Education: Value and Impact.
Marta joined the doctoral programme in 2021 and her supervisors are Chris Ziguras and Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans.
Cara is Head of Student Mobility and Exchange (acting) at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is American, with an MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in Philadelphia, and has been in Australia since 2015.
Her research interest centres on the link between outbound student mobility targets and institutional culture, and the impact that scaling up student mobility has on an institution as a whole. Her supervisors are Fiona Hunter and Catherine Montgomery.
Maria-Elvira has been working in international higher education since 2009. She is currently the Project Manager of the Erasmus Mundus joint Master in Artificial Intelligence (EMAI) at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain.
Her research interest centres around the relationship between administrative and academic staff while developing Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees (EMJMDs). Her main purpose is to better understand the types of collaboration operating among professionals working in these joint degrees, both within and across the institutions involved.
Maria-Elvira joined the PhD programme in 2020, and her supervisors are Fiona Hunter and Christof Van Mol.
Marina Casals Sala is Director of International Relations at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Spain). She joined the PhD programme in 2020 and is conducting research on the internationalisation of administrative staff at home through professional development and organisational change.
Her supervisors are Karen M. Lauridsen and Cinzia di Dio.
