Contributors

Who are the main Nuffic contributors?

• Rosa Becker has been at Nuffic since March 2010. Prior to her position as a senior policy officer at Nuffic she worked as a senior researcher at the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education in London. Before this, Rosa had a research position at the Institute of Education, University of London in the UK, where she also earned a PhD in comparative higher education. Her expertise is in transnational higher education, the emergence of global market forces and contemporary trends in international higher education. Read blog posts by Rosa Becker
• Ad Boeren is a longstanding staff member of Nuffic. He has developed broad experience in the field of development cooperation and capacity building in higher education. He has published several articles and books on issues such as aid effectiveness and capacity building and has been involved in many evaluation projects in this area. Before joining Nuffic, Ad used to work for the Food and Agricultural Organisation and for Leiden University. Read blog posts by Ad Boeren
• Marianne Cox has long been part of the Nuffic staff but joined its Knowledge and Innovation Directorate in July 2010.  She served for a long time as a credential evaluator and consultant for our International Recognition Department. Her expertise lies in topics related to international accreditation, international rankings and league tables and the role of teachers in internationalisation. Read blog posts by Marianne Cox
• Adinda van Gaalen is a senior policy officer at Nuffic where she has been working since 2007, specialising in quality issues surrounding the internationalisation of higher education. She is the project leader of the Nuffic MINT project (Mapping Internationalisation) which offers a quality assurance and benchmarking tool for internationalisation activities in higher education institutions. Before joining Nuffic she was a policy advisor and head of the international office at the HES School of Economics and Business in Amsterdam. Adinda has an MA in Culture, Organisation and Management from the VU University, Amsterdam. Read blog posts by Adinda van Gaalen
• Mtinkheni Gondwe joined Nuffic in 2009 and specialises in higher education in developing countries. Mtinkheni has a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Groningen and an MSc in the same field from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa). Since joining Nuffic she has focused on the role of professional and vocational education for development and the opportunities for universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands to be involved in capacity building and development cooperation. Read blog posts by Mtinkheni Gondwe
• Hendrik Jan Hobbes has been a policy officer at Nuffic since 2008 and specialises in Dutch policies and legislation in an international context. Here his particular focus is on legal and policy aspects of joint degrees and other opportunities for international partnerships. Before working at Nuffic, Hendrik Jan used to work at the International Office of Leiden University, where he was responsible for the Erasmus Mundus programme and for institution-wide collaboration agreements. Read blog posts by Hendrik Jan Hobbes
• Jenneke Lokhoff joined Nuffic in 2008 as policy officer and has been an expert and consultant involved in studies, projects and initiatives covering a wide range of topics in the field of internationalisation in higher education. Within Nuffic’s Expertise department, Jenneke has been the specialist in the field of recognition since 2008, and is responsible for the development and management of various European and international projects undertaken by the Dutch ENIC/NARIC. Before joining Nuffic, Jenneke worked at the European Commission, DG Research. She holds an MA in History (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and an MA in International Relations and European Studies (Central European University, Budapest). Read blog posts by Jenneke Lokhoff
• Ouindinda Nikièma joined Nuffic in 2001. He is a seasoned expert in development cooperation in post-secondary education and training. TVET receives his specific attention. Ouindinda worked at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences and at Dutch NGOs. He was also a first grade teacher at secondary schools in Burkina Faso. He is a geographer and graduated twice respectively in Burkina Faso (University of Ouagadougou) and in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Read blog posts by Ouindinda Nikièma
• Eric Richters is specialised in mobility statistics and the measurement of internationalisation. He has been a contributor to and editor of the Internationalisation Monitor of the Netherlands, which has been published annually since 2007 and is commissioned by the Ministry of Education. He is also project leader of a new annual Nuffic publication on international mobility in the Netherlands ‘Mobiliteit in Beeld’ (Mapping Mobility). Before joining Nuffic, Eric held several positions in development projects in Latin America. Read blog posts by Eric Richters
• Sjoerd Roodenburg focuses on issues related to the Bologna process, the European higher education and research area and European programmes. He also coordinates the expertise on Europe and Bologna within Nuffic. Sjoerd joined Nuffic in 2009. Before this he worked as a policy researcher at a private research institute and as a policy advisor for COLO, the association of Dutch centres of expertise on vocational education, training and the labour market. Sjoerd has an MA in Pedagogy from Leiden University. Read blog posts by Sjoerd Roodenburg

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