Leasa Weimer

Leasa Weimer is the Knowledge Development Adviser for the European Association for International Education (EAIE). With 20 years of higher education experience, she has worn many hats in the field of international education including being an international student, a practitioner developing programmes and partnerships, and a researcher contributing to new knowledge areas. Leasa holds a PhD from the University of Georgia (USA) where she received a Fulbright and American Scandinavian Foundation grant to collect data for her dissertation project on the international student tuition fee pilot program in Finland. In 2008, she earned an Erasmus Mundus joint Master’s degree in Higher Education Policy from the University of Oslo (Norway), University of Tampere (Finland), and at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). Her master’s thesis compared the Erasmus Mundus and the US Fulbright policies and programmes. Currently, she serves as the President of the Erasmus Mundus Student and Alumni Association (EMA) where she oversees the external relations and strategic planning for the global association with over 10 000 members in 174 different countries around the world. Her publications and research agenda focus on: higher education policy analysis, internationalisation, the international student market, international joint degrees, international alumni efforts and academic capitalism.