Hans de Wit

Hans de Wit is Professor (lector) of Internationalization of Higher Education at the School of Economics and Management of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences and Senior Policy Advisor International of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Since 2010 he is a visiting professor at the CAPRI, the Centre for Academic Practice and Research in Internationalisation of Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.

In 2005-2006 he was a New Century Scholar of the Fulbright Program Higher Education in the 21^st Century, and in 1995 and 2006 a visiting scholar in the USA and in 2002 in Australia He has a bachelor, master and PhD from the University of Amsterdam.

He is the Co-Editor of the ‘Journal of Studies in International Education’ (Association for Studies in International Education/SAGE publishers). He has (co)written several other books and articles on international education and is actively involved in assessment and consultancy in international education, for organisations like:

• the European Commission
• UNESCO
• World Bank
• IMHE/OECD
• ESMU

His latest book is Hans de Wit (2011), Trends, Issues and Challenges in  Internationalisation of Higher Education CAREM HvA.

Hans de Wit is founding member and past president of the European Association for International Education (EAIE). Currently he is, among other positions,

• Member of the Board of Trustees of World Education Services (New York),
• Member of the ESL TOEFL Board (as of 2011),
• Co-Chair of the Special Interest Group Research in International Education of EAIE,
• Member of the Consell Assessor de l’Institut Internacional de Postgrau de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and
• Director of the new Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, a centre exclusively focused on research and training (PhD and masters) in internationalization.

Awards

He received the Constance Meldrum Award for Vision and Leadership of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) in Antwerp in 2009. Previous awards he received from the University of Amsterdam (2006), AIEA (2006), CIEE (2004 and 2006), NAFSA (2002) and EAIE (1999).