Evelien Hack

Nuffic, Netherlands

Evelien Hack is acting Teamlead of the Strategy & Innovation Team at Nuffic, the Dutch organisation for internationalisation in education. She has over fifteen years of experience in international higher education, with a strong focus on strategic policy development, student mobility, and stakeholder engagement.
Throughout her career, Evelien has held various roles, including Senior Policy Officer and Programme Manager, where she led initiatives on inclusive mobility, capacity building, and international cooperation. Her work bridges policy and practice, with a particular emphasis on creating future-proof strategies for internationalisation.
Evelien has been actively involved with the EAIE for many year; serving as a member of the EAIE Expert Community Health and Welfare, as well as the General Council and at the moment as the chair for the Conference Programme Committee. She regularly speaks and moderates at international conferences, sharing insights on internationalization, leadership, and strategic development in education.
Known for her collaborative and thoughtful leadership style, Evelien is passionate about empowering professionals and fostering meaningful international partnerships that contribute to a more inclusive and sustainable education sector.
 

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Gabrielle Rheault

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada

Gabrielle Rheault is the Outgoing Mobility Advisor at the International Relations Department of the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), a position she has held for the past two years. She works closely with UQAM students to help them plan and prepare for their international study periods, offering personalized guidance at every stage of the process. Gabrielle also supports faculty members in designing and organizing short-term study abroad programs embedded in their courses, ensuring both academic value and smooth logistical coordination.

In addition to her advising role, Gabrielle actively promotes international mobility across the university. Always seeking to broaden access, she develops new funding opportunities and explores innovative ways to increase the number of UQAM students who study abroad. These efforts led to the creation of UQAM’s Locomotion Grant, a dedicated funding program for short-term group mobilities organized as part of UQAM courses.

Gabrielle is committed to helping students and faculty transform their international ambitions into reality—opening doors to new perspectives, experiences, and global connections.

Julia Trattnig

University of Graz, Austria

Since 2023, Julia works as an International Relations Officer at the University of Graz, where she is in charge of Erasmus+ short-term mobilities such as Blended Intensive Programmes and doctoral mobilities. In addition, she supports international staff and students as well as guest researchers in the Welcome Center. 
She holds degrees in Romance studies, Political Science and Gender Studies from the University of Vienna and the University of Graz. Before joining the Office of International Relations at Uni Graz, she was involved in improving gender mainstreaming and diversity management in an EU-project and in higher education institutions. 
Having benefited from a stay abroad herself, she would like to recommend this experience to all students to broaden their horizons. Current developments such as short-term programmes and Internationalisation@Home seem to be innovative options to enhance internationalisation in higher education.

Oana-Roxana Ivan

West University of Timisoara, Romania

Oana-Roxana IVAN-HOROBEȚ is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, within the West University of Timisoara (WUT), with experience in teaching English and/or Spanish as a second language to students for more than 15 years. Since 2013, she has been in charge of coordinating the implementation of the Erasmus programme at WUT, currently holding the position of Erasmus+ Institutional Coordinator and Head of Division for European Cooperation - Erasmus+ & UNITA within the Department for International Relations. With a career of over 10 years in the internationalization of higher education, her interest and commitment to the institutional processes for internationalization (at home and abroad) has been highlighted through the management of international mobility projects and the coordination of international collaboration initiatives, as well as through the active involvement in the implementation of the European University Alliance, UNITA Universitas Montium, that WUT is a founding member of since 2020, having the role as co-leader of the task dedicated to ensuring seamless mobility within the alliance.

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Maureen Deisinger

Virginia Tech, USA

Maureen Deisinger serves as the assistant director for global opportunities in the International Programs Office in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.
She comes to this role from the central Global Education Office at Virginia Tech.  As the assistant director for partnerships and affiliations, she worked most closely with Virginia Tech’s portfolio of student exchange agreements as well as its partnership with the ISEP. 
Prior to her global education positions at VT, Maureen served as an academic adviser in the Virginia Tech Geography department working with both geography and meteorology majors.
She also coordinated International Street Fair 2010 for the Cranwell International Center.  
Prior to relocating to Virginia, Maureen was both a study abroad and an academic adviser at Iowa State University.  She worked most closely with programs in Australia, New Zealand and Greece and was also involved in academic advising in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at ISU.
In her free time, she likes to cook, hike, hang with her cat, and socialize with friends. 

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Viktoriia Pukhyr

KU Leuven, Belgium

International Relations Officer at the Faculty of Engineering Science: 
- providing expertise in international inbound mobility; 
- building and strengthening relationships with partner HEIs;
- conducting statistical analysis and evaluation to determine trends, with subsequent policy recommendations.

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