Jenneke Lokhoff

Nuffic, Netherlands

Jenneke Lokhoff is a senior international higher education policy expert with over 15 years of experience in European and global frameworks for the recognition of qualifications. At Nuffic, the Dutch ENIC-NARIC centre, she designs and manages international projects that put recognition policy into practice, supporting governments and institutions in implementing the Lisbon Recognition Convention across the European Higher Education Area and beyond. Her work focuses on achieving "smooth and fair recognition" and spans the full range of recognition topics.
She has held leadership positions within the ENIC-NARIC networks, including serving as Vice-President and President of the ENIC Bureau and as a member of the NARIC Advisory Board. She has also contributed her expertise to various European and international working groups and other initiatives.
Currently, Jenneke coordinates the AR25 and AR2030 projects, which promote the use of the Spotlight self-assessment tool to help higher education institutions align their recognition procedures with Lisbon Recognition Convention and the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area.

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Helene Peterbauer

European University Association (EUA), Belgium

Helene Peterbauer is the Deputy Director of the European University Association's (EUA's) Institutional Development unit. She represents EUA in various expert groups and projects with a focus on academic recognition, including the Council of Europe’s Ad Hoc Working Group on Automatic Recognition, the Erasmus+ funded Automatic Recognition in the European Education Area 2025 (AR25) project and the Bologna Follow-Up Group’s Thematic Peer Group on recognition. She also coordinated the Erasmus+ funded "Spotlight on recognition" project which developed a tool for higher education institutions to self-assess whether their recognition practices are in line with the Lisbon Recognition Convention and international good practice. 

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Cecilia George

Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR), Sweden

Cecilia George has been working with recognition of foreign qualifications for over 20 years, including 15 years at the European Network of Information Centres (ENIC-NARIC) Sweden. Cecilia's fields of expertise are recognition methodology, support to higher education institutions and automatic recognition, as well as the systems of education in Anglophone Africa and Northwestern Europe. She has been involved in working groups in the Bologna process on Lisbon Recognition Convention implementation and Automatic recognition and was elected member of the NARIC Advisory Board 2019-2023. Cecilia has been a speaker at Taicep conferences and at different national and international occasions. She has been active within the EAIE Admission and Recognition stream as a speaker at conferences and trainer at workshops and the EAIE Academy.