ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

EDITORS

Georgiana Mihut is a Research Assistant at the Center for International Higher Education and a doctoral candidate in Higher Education at . In addition to international higher education, her primary research interests include the impact of university reputation on graduate employability and quality assurance in higher education. She recently published the article What Germany and Romania have in common: The impact of university prestige on graduate employability, coauthored the ACE and CIHE report Internationalizing higher education worldwide: National policies and programs, and published the article International advisory councils and internationalization of governance. A qualitative analysis. Georgiana holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s degree in Research and Innovation in Higher Education, a Master of Arts degree in Education and Globalization from University of Oulu, Finland, and a Bachelor of Political Science degree from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.

Philip G. Altbach is research professor and the founding director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. He was the Monan University Professor at Boston College for two decades. He has held appointments at , the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the State University of New York at Buffalo and has been a visiting scholar at and the University of California at Berkeley. He was Distinguished Scholar Leader of the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program and was Fulbright Research Professor at the University of Mumbai, . He is a Fellow of the American Education Research Association and was given the Houlihan Award by NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the Howard Bowen Research Award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education. He has been appointed to honorary professorships by the National Research University–Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, and and Xiamen Universities in , and has been Onwell Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. Philip Altbach has written or edited more than 50 books. He has served as editor of the Review of Higher Education and the Comparative Education Review.

Hans de Wit is professor of the practice and director of the Center for International Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. A native of the Netherlands, where his career as an administrator, researcher, and teacher has spanned three decades, de Wit joined the Lynch School in 2015 from the Universita Cattolica Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, where he served as the founding director of the Center for Higher Education Internationalisation, and from the Amsterdam

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University of Applied Sciences where he was professor of Internationalization of Higher Education. He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education (Association for Studies in International Education/SAGE publishers), as well as a founding member and past president of the European Association for International Education (EAIE). He has published many books, articles and reports on international higher education, and contributes a regular blog to University World News. He has received several awards for his contribution to the field of international education.

CONTRIBUTORS

Andrés Bernasconi is an associate professor at the School of Education at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), a position he has held since 2012. He has also served as Vice-Dean of the School (2015–2016), and Director of its research center CEPPE (2013–2015). Prior to this role, he was a Vice Rector (2007– 2012) and a Professor (2005–2012) at Universidad Andrés Bello. An attorney with a Master’s in public policy from Harvard University and a PhD in the Sociology of Organizations from Boston University, his research, writing, and consulting work specializes on the regulation of higher education, the academic profession, and universities as organizations.

Anna Bon works as a researcher in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), the Netherlands. In 2009–2010 she served as an ICT advisor to eight African universities (in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Democratic Republic Congo) to redesign institutional ICT strategies. She also coordinated a project to set up Advanced ICT Studies in Kumasi, Ghana. She is specialized in socio-technical field action research, aimed at developing ICT services for people in low-tech, low- resource environments such as rural Africa. She frequently gives guest lectures and workshops at higher education institutes in developing countries, including universities in Ghana, Suriname, Colombia, and Ethiopia. In collaboration with researchers from the Computer Science Department of VUA, she initiated and teaches a course on “ICT for Development” for information science students.

Lucia Brajkovic is a Senior Research Specialist at ACE’s Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement. She also serves as the executive director of the Higher Education Initiative for Southeastern Europe. Brajkovic completed her doctoral degree at the University of Georgia’s Institute of Higher Education. Her dissertation research focused on political economy and higher education systems in post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. She is also exploring the internationalization of U.S. higher education, and the connections of elite universities with industry and the corporate world, particularly with transnational corporations. During the course of her doctoral program she served as a Fulbright Fellow at the

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