Markus Laitinen

Markus has over 20 years of experience in international higher education in various roles at the University of Helsinki, ranging from student services and admissions to strategic management of international relations. He earned his Master’s in social science there in 1995, was the university’s Erasmus+ institutional coordinator for well over 10 years, and currently serves as the university’s Head of International Affairs.

He has been involved with the EAIE since 1994, coordinated his university’s successful application for the EAIE Institutional Award for Internationalisation in 2013 and served as President of the EAIE (2016–2018). Throughout his career Markus has been an avid proponent of embedded internationalisation and has given talks and published articles on this topic.