Isabell Majewsky Anderson

Isabell Majewsky Anderson was born in Germany but raised in Malaysia and Singapore. She came to Scotland in 1988 to study at the University of Stirling and went on to receive a distinction for a Masters in Entrepreneurship. Since leaving university, she has taken on a variety of roles mainly in higher education, both in internationalisation and innovation, most notably as Director of Connect Midlands at the University of Warwick. She is currently the University of Edinburgh’s Head of Go Abroad and Director of Summer School. In the last two years, she has developed a portfolio of activities through an innovative, large-scale scholarship programme – the Principal’s Go Abroad Challenge – aimed at incentivising students to engage with an international educational experience.

Isabell received the Bo Gregersen Award for Best Practice in 2015 for her work creating the Principal’s Go Abroad Challenge (PGAC). Isabell designed PGAC to create an immediate impact and long-lasting enrichment to the student experience, offering a range of short-term, accessible international experiences in lieu of the traditional full year and semester long exchange options.