Pouneh Eftekhari

Lund University, Sweden

Pouneh Eftekhari’s main responsibilities at Lund University (Sweden) include the strategic planning for sustainable internationalization (including virtual exchange) and coordinating and evaluating bilateral internationalization projects. She also leads a research project exploring the role of educational developers in curriculum internationalization. Alongside this work, Pouneh is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Transformative Education (CTE) at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) where she investigates the implications of disciplinary culture on academic engagement with internationalization. Her recent findings confirm that academic engagement varies across disciplines, suggesting that disciplinary culture may be key to increasing participation.   
  
Pouneh draws on 15 years of experience supporting international students, facilitating mobility, nurturing university relations, leading internationalization projects, and researching higher education internationalization at universities in Europe and the USA. She is certified as an expert in assessing the quality of internationalization by the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA) and contributes to international organizations and projects as a consultant, trainer/speaker, advisory board member, and researcher.