Johannes Wilhelmus Maria "Hans" de Wit (born 1950) is a Dutch international

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and higher education administrator, known for his leading scholarly work on the field of

Internationalization of Higher Education Internationalization of higher education in theory is "the process of integrating an international, intercultural, or global dimension into the purpose, functions or delivery of postsecondary education." Internationalization of higher education in ...

Current activities

Hans de Wit is since 2015 Director of the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), based at

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, USA, where he also serves as professor. Before, he was founding director of the ‘Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation’ (CHEI) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, and Professor of Internationalization of Higher Education at the

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. He has widely consulted with the European Commission, the European Parliament, the World Bank, the

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and a variety of universities around the world, on matters related to Internationalization of Higher Education. In 2014, he was a special advisor to the Study commissioned by the European Commission ‘The ERASMUS Impact Study: Effects of Mobility on the skills and Employability of Students and the Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions’. He was a member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board of the second edition of the Bologna Process Researchers' Conference in Bucharest, on 24–26 November 2014. He also was an advisor of the European Commission in the preparation of its communication ‘European Higher Education in the World’ in 2013.

Editorial work

De Wit is the Founding Editor of the ‘Journal of Studies in International Education’, author and editor of several books on Internationalization of Higher Education, and member of specialized editorial boards. A prolific writer and blogger, Hans de Wit is widely recognized as an influential scholar in the field of Internationalization of Higher Education.

Early career

At the University of Amsterdam, he served as vice-president for international affairs in 1986–2005. Also, he worked as director of international relations at Tilburg University (1981–1985) and assistant professor in Latin American studies at Utrecht University (1979–1981).

Education

He has a bachelor, master and PhD from the University of Amsterdam.

Public service

Hans de Wit is founding member and past president of the

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EAIE. He is a member of the board of trustees of World Education Services, and member of the internationalisation advisory boards in several universities (

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in The Netherlands, the University of Göttingen in Germany and the

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in Medellin).

Recognition

He has received several awards for his contribution to the field of international education: EAIE (1999 and 2008),

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(2002), CIEE (2004 and 2006), University of Amsterdam (2006), AIEA (2006 and 2013) and

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(2014).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wit, Hans de 1950 births Living people Dutch educational theorists Boston College faculty University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam People from Nijmegen Dutch expatriates in the United States