The 2019 Conference of the Americas on International Education attracted a record number of almost 1,000 participants from Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, China and New Zealand, but little participation from the U.S.
Hans de Wit
Hans de Wit
Hans de Wit is Director of the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) at Boston College, USA, and professor of the practice in International Higher Education at the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education of the Lynch School of Education, Boston College.
He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education’ (Association for Studies in International Education/SAGE), and Consulting Editor of the journal Policy Reviews in Higher Education(SRHE). He is Associate Editor of International Higher Education, Co-editor book series Global Perspectives in Higher Education (Sense Publishers) and SAGE Studies in Higher Education (SAGE), and Co-Editor of ESAL - Revista de Educación Superior en América Latina. Together with Laura Rumbley and Fiona Hunter he is the editor of the section Higher Education as a Global Reality, for International Encyclopedia of Higher Education (Springer).
He has been Director of the ‘Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation’ (CHEI) at the Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, and Professor of Internationalization of Higher Education at the Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences.
In 2014-2015 he was the leader of a study on internationalisation of higher education for the European Parliament, a joint project of CHEI in partnership with IAU and EAIE. He also was an advisor of the European Commission in the preparation of its communication ‘European Higher Education in the World’ of 2013. He was a consultant on ‘Advancing models of best practice in internationalization of higher education in Kazakhstan’ for the Graduate School of Education of Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, 2014-2016, and of the PUC de Chile on its internationalization strategy (2016-2017). He was a Research Associate at the Unit for Higher Education Internationalisation in the Developing World at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 2012-2016. He was a member of the Editorial Board and Scientific Committee of the third edition of the Bologna Process Researchers’ conference, Bucharest, November 27-29, 2017.
Hans de Wit is founding member and past president of the European Association for International Education (EAIE).
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