Piet Van Hove

HEROES Alliance, Belgium

Piet Van Hove is the Secretary-General of the HEROES European University Alliance, on behalf of the coordinating institution, Thomas More University of Applied Sciences in Belgium. He is the immediate past president (2022-2024) of the EAIE. 
Piet has worked on different aspects of internationalisation of higher education (mobility, capacity building, strategic networking, ...) throughout his whole career, after graduating from law school in 1995. He was the head of the International Relations Office of the University of Antwerp for 15 years. 
Piet has been active in the leadership of several professional associations and nonprofits at the national and international level, such as Flanders Knowledge Area, ACA and the EAIE. He is currently a board member of the NGO Apopo ('training rats to save lives') and of ILEP Ltd, which is the organisation implementing Taith, the learning mobility programme for Wales. He presents frequently on the different aspects of internationalisation of higher education. 
 

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