Samia Chasi

IEASA, South Africa
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Samia Chasi

Building a more inclusive world together.

Dr Samia Chasi is a practitioner, scholar and facilitator in higher education internationalisation. She is currently the Manager: Strategic Initiatives, Partnership Development and Research at the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) and a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. She is passionate about facilitating deeper understanding and connections between diverse people and institutions by creating spaces for critical engagement and constructive dialogue. Her research interests lie in Global South perspectives on higher education internationalisation, with a particular focus on South-North collaboration and partnerships. Samia has more than 20 years of experience in international education through positions in international offices of German and South African universities, an agency of the European Commission, as well as representations of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Nuffic and the British Council in South Africa.