Marina Malgina

Marina is a higher education professional with more than 10 years’ experience.

Marina is Head of Section for Recognition of Refugees' Qualifications at the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), the Norwegian ENIC-NARIC. She graduated from the University of Oslo, Norway with a Master’s degree in Comparative and International Education. Since 2010, Marina has been leading NOKUT’s work in developing and implementing recognition procedures to support refugees in accessing further studies and employment. She has been involved in the development of the European Qualifications Passport for Refugees scheme since 2015 and is a content coordinator in the pilot project ‘Recognition of Qualifications held by Refugees’ led by the Council of Europe. She was awarded the EAIE's Bo Gregersen Award for Best Practice in 2017 and shares her experience as an EAIE mentor. Marina also served as a Steering group member of the Expert Community Admission and Recognition from 2020 to 2022.