Pouneh Eftekhari

Pouneh is the International Coordinator, Strategic Partnerships and Networks at Lund University in Sweden. She is also pursuing a PhD in Internationalization of Higher Education at the Centre for Internationalisation of Education (CIE) at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. As a scholar-practitioner, Pouneh is passionate about improving the primary functions of higher education institutions and their supporting processes in order to bridge the gap between internationalisation policy and practice at all levels. For the past decade, she has specialised in higher education internationalisation and quality through her work at higher education institutions in Denmark, Spain, Sweden, and the USA. In addition, she has conducted research for the European Consortium for Accreditation and the BRIDGES-LAC project (Erasmus Mundus Action 3). Pouneh is also certified as an ‘Expert in Internationalisation’ by the European Consortium for Accreditation.