Michael Cooper

Michael Cooper is Chair of the EAIE Editorial Committee and Editor of the EAIE's Forum magazine. He is also Executive Director of the European Access Network (EAN) and a member of the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Studies in International Education and the Journal of Widening Participation. Born in the UK, Michael received degrees from King's College, London. With the aim of broadening his experience of the world outside academia, he joined a large engineering concern, gaining invaluable insight into and appreciation of the skills to be attained in the non-academic world. Interest in other cultures resulted in a move to Sweden where he completed a research degree at Göteborg University. He was appointed lecturer in English at Karlstad University, Sweden in 1968 (then a branch of Göteborg University). There he became closely involved with the development of the University, serving for many years as Head of the School of Modern Languages and also sitting on the Governing Board of the University. From 1990 to 2007, he was Director of International Affairs at Karlstad University. He was a member of the Council of Advisers for the International Student Exchange Program in Washington 1998-2003 (serving as chair 2000-2002). He was President of the Compostela Group of Universities from 1999-2007 and member of the executive committee of the European Access Network (EAN) 1999-2008. He has edited a number of volumes of proceedings and translated many academic articles and books from a number of languages into English.

Hans de Wit

Hans de Wit is founding Dean of Windesheim Honours College of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands and is currently an international education consultant. Hans has been Director of the Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise of the Hague Academic Coalition and Senior Policy Advisor to T M C Asser Institute of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Between 1986 and 2005, he held a variety of positions, including Director of the Office of Foreign Relations, Vice-President for International Affairs, and Senior Advisor International at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Hans is one of the founding members and a past president of the EAIE. He has served on numerous boards including World Education Services (New York), The Spanish Accreditation Agency (ANEC), and the Bologna Task force of NAFSA, and continues to contribute his expertise to various EAIE activities. Hans is also Editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education, published by SAGE publishers. Hans is the author of several books, including Internationalisation of Higher Education in the United States of America and Europe, a Historical, Comparative and Conceptual Analysis (2002); Higher Education in Latin America: The International Dimension (2005), co-edited with Isabel Cristina Jaramillo, Jocelyne Gacel Avila and Jane Knight; and European Responses to the Global Perspective (2006), edited in partnership with Barbara Kehm. His latest book, The Dynamics in International Student Circulation in a Global Context, co-edited with four colleagues from Asia and Africa, was published in January 2008. He has received several awards - among others from CIEE, NAFSA and the University of Amsterdam for his work in international education.

Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans

Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans is Director of Communication and Spokesperson of the Executive Board at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Until 1997, she worked as Dean for International Students at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. During that period she developed courses on intercultural communication as part of the professional training programme of the European Association for International Education. After a period as Secretary General of UNICA she returned to The Netherlands in 2000 to take up the position of Head of Educational Marketing at Wageningen. Over the years Jeanine has presented at numerous conferences and seminars world wide on topics of intercultural communication and marketing of higher education. She is co-author of the EAIE Occasional Paper, Culture Matters (2004) and contributed a chapter to the EAIE/EAIR book, Europe's Response to globalization (2005). Her latest article 'High Potentials: A CEO Perspective' is published in the Journal of Studies in International Education (2007 11: 510-521). As an expert, Jeanine has participated in the branding of Higher Education for The Netherlands and for Europe, initiated by NUFFIC and ACA respectively. Jeanine holds a Masters degree in psychology and is additionally connected to the Maastricht School of Governance as a research fellow on internationalisation of Higher Education in Europe.

Margaret (Peggy) Pusch

Margaret (Peggy) Pusch is Executive Director of SIETAR-USA (Society for International Education, Training, and Research-USA), and Associate Director of The Intercultural Communication Institute, Portland, Oregon. As an intercultural trainer, she has developed and delivered several SAFSA workshops with Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans and has developed trainer workshops for the EAIE with Siebelien Felix. She co-founded and was President of The Intercultural Press, Inc. for over fifteen years. From 1995-1996, Peggy was President of NAFSA: Association of International Educators and from 2000-2003, was President of SIETAR. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership and is on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. She recently received two prestigious awards: the Lifetime Achievement Award from SIETAR Europa and the Optime Merens de Collegis award from SIETAR USA.