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. 

Jos Beelen

The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

Laura E. Rumbley is Director, Knowledge Development and Research at the European Association for International Education (EAIE), based in Amsterdam. She previously served as Associate Director for the Boston College Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) in the United States and Deputy Director of the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) in Brussels. Laura has co-edited the Journal of Studies in International Education since 2014 and has authored and edited a wide range of publications on internationalisation in higher education.     

Tanja Reiffenrath

University of Göttingen, Germany

Tanja Reiffenrath is coordinator for Internationalisation of Curricula at the University of Göttingen, Germany. In this role, she supports academics in different disciplines who seek to (re)design courses and study programmes by integrating an international, intercultural and/or global dimension. She also serves as a policy advisor in matters of Internationalisation at Home, (co)designs professional development opportunities as well facilitates dialogue about internationalisation and digitisation in a community of practice. In the European University alliance ENLIGHT, she supports the implementation of challenge-based international learning, advises on the curricular integration of IaH measures, virtual exchange and blended intensive programmes, and works together with colleagues across the network to develop micro-credentials.

Tanja is the outgoing chair of the EAIE Expert Community Internationalisation at Home and will join the EAIE Conference Programme Committee in the coming term. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Studies in International Education and co-editor of the wbv book series "Innovative University: digital – international – transformative". 

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