Carmela Criseo

Carmela Criseo is Founder and Director of CC INTERNATIONAL Policy Strategy Implementation in Education since 2009. CC INTERNATIONAL supports education, businesses and (local) authorities in all aspects of innovation through consultancy missions in internationalisation and change management.

Carmela has worked at Nuffic as Head of Consultation Platforms & Networks. Before that, she worked as Head and later Director of the International Office of HU University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. She was one of the pioneer lecturers who developed one of the first fully English-taught Bachelor’s programme in the Netherlands. Carmela studied at Sorbonne University in Paris, and moved to the Netherlands where she started her career in international higher education. She has more than twenty years’ experience in international higher education and in the training industry. Carmela has participated in the EAIE since 1994, and served on the EAIE's Rainbow Task Force from 2018–2020.