EAIE & Nuffic Insight Event: Inclusion

Stephen Orme

EAIE Board Member, Vice-President StudyPortals, The Netherlands

Stephen Orme is Senior Vice-President at Studyportals after previously being employed by Navitas, Study Group, Nuffic and Leiden University. He has a wide range of experience in the field, covering admissions, international recruitment, pathway education and management. Stephen was born in Northern Ireland but was educated in the Netherlands. He holds a Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature.

Stephen has been involved with the EAIE in different roles. He won the EAIE Rising Star award in 2009 and was a member of the EAIE General Council for two terms, from 2020-2024. Since 2024, he has been a member of the EAIE Board.

Aminata Cairo

Independent consultant and author of "Holding Space", The Netherlands

Aminata Cairo, Ph.D. is an independent consultant. She is the former Social Justice and Diversity in the Arts lector at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. She is the author and promotor of the concept Holding Space, an alternative to Diversity and Inclusion and an invitation to create better spaces where every story is truly valued.

Stella Saliari

Feminist Researcher and Social Justice Consultant, Greece

Stella Saliari is a feminist researcher and social justice consultant. Throughout her work she applies feminist research practice and an anti-racist lens. She collaborates with both organizations in the Higher Education realm as well as the not-for-profit sector, presenting on topics such as Eurocentrism and knowledge production, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in international education, the politics of positionality. She further curates and moderates events ranging from topics such as Inclusion and Diversity in the Erasmus+ program to trainings on feminist knowledge production. All her work is guided by interventions at epistemological levels, by challenging normalized assumptions while her research practice is intersectional, reflexive and participatory. She stands for co-creation of knowledge, applying non-extractive methods, and entering into non-hierarchical relationships with the organizations and people she collaborates with. 

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Struan Campbell

Head of Education, British Council, The Netherlands

Struan Campbell is Head of Education for the British Council in the Netherlands. Struan leads a national scheme focused on inclusive internationalisation. They have spent over 15 years working in the United Kingdom in a range of sectors including higher education, the legal field and science, to break down barriers to opportunities and co-create an access scheme to improve widening participation. 

Eva Haug

Educational Advisor, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Eva Haug is Educational Advisor for Curriculum Internationalisation and COIL/VE at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She’s an elected member of the EAIE Thematic Committee Teaching, Learning & Curriculum. She’s also a research fellow at the University of the Free State (South Africa) and works as an affiliated trainer for University of Minnesota. Eva’s responsibilities include capacity building for IoC and COIL. She has built a sustainable COIL practice at the AUAS, with over 100 projects per year, offering thousands of students the opportunity to experience international and intercultural teamwork. 

Ruard Ganzevoort

Rector, International Institute of Social Studies The Hague, The Netherlands

Ruard Ganzevoort is Rector of the International Institute of Social Studies The Hague. Previously he was Dean at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he also held the role of Chief Diversity Officer. In addition to his academic roles, he served for three consecutive terms, from 2011 to 2023, as a member of the Senate in the Dutch national parliament for the Green party, GroenLinks.

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Martin Bogdan

Policy and Project Coordinator, Academic Cooperation Association, Belgium

Martin Bogdan is Policy and Project Coordinator, who first started working for Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) in 2019. He is the co-chair of ACA’s Thematic Peer Group 'Widening Inclusion in Higher Education', which discusses the management of national and European funding to increase participation of underrepresented groups in international higher education. He coordinates ACA’s several projects on inclusion and societal engagement, as well as capacity building training series Inclusion ACAdemy for HEIs and NAs. From September 2024 onward, he is a member of EAIEs Thematic Committee on Social responsibility. Prior to ACA, Martin worked in the European Commission, in several NGOs working with open access policies, migrants, arts, and media. He also briefly taught in an international school.

Marc Ferriggi

President, ESN, The Netherlands

Marc Ferriggi is the President of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) in the Netherlands. He brings his insight into the international student perspective to the discussion. ESN is a student organisation that works to create a more inclusive international education environment. They achieve this by supporting student exchange at different levels and providing an intercultural experience to students who cannot access a period abroad. Having experienced being an international student himself and working closely with international students during his time as a local board member with ESN Utrecht last year, Marc has an intimate knowledge of the benefits of internationalisation, as well as the barriers that international students face when studying in The Netherlands.

As the national president, Marc now focuses on internal leadership as well as external representation of the association. This includes representing the needs of international students towards stakeholders in higher education and national organisations who are affiliated with higher education or youth. 

Franka van den Hende

Senior Policy Advisor, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Dr. Franka van den Hende is a Senior Policy Advisor and Researcher at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Franka has been working on internationalisation, diversity and change in higher education since 1992 in multiple academic and professional roles, varying from researcher, lecturer, director of international relations, policy advisor, and project manager. Her main interests are in internationalising study programmes, the impact of (inter)disciplinary contexts, how to engage staff and students, working with diversity, adequate financial and human resources management, language and intercultural issues, and strategy and policy development. Based on organisational change theory, Franka has developed a comprehensive, structured approach with practical guidelines to make internationalisation and diversity more effective and valuable in particular contexts.  

She has published several research articles open-access in international higher education journals, as well as policy and practice-related articles through the EAIE. Franka has presented her work frequently on national and international platforms and conferences such as NUFFIC, ACA, EAIE, HERDSA, NAFSA, Ministries, higher education institutions in the Netherlands and worldwide. 

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Marloes Ambragts-van Rooijen

Senior Lecturer, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Marloes Ambagts-van Rooijen is Senior Lecturer Internationalisation & Innovation and Researcher Global Learning at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. In her roles, she explores how lecturers, students and societal actors can recognise and leverage diversity in co-creation processes across (disciplinary, sectoral and national) boundaries. In her PhD project at Groningen University, she explores how lecturers harness diversity in superdiverse HEIs and what they need to do this. Marloes has been working with intercultural groups across the educational landscape since 2006 and has been designing and facilitating professional development around internationalisation of the curriculum, global learning and harnessing diversity in vocational and higher education across the Netherlands, Europe and in Colombia and Chile. 

Anas Kjidaâ

ECHO Expertisecentrum Diversiteitsbeleid, The Netherlands

Anas Kjidaâ is a third-year Law student at Utrecht University and an Ambassador at ECHO. ECHO is a non-profit organisation focused on Diversity & Inclusion in (higher) education and the labour market. He is also involved in various projects in the field of youth participation, including JONG053PRAATMEE. Anan is the Chairperson of the UNESCO Youth Commission.

Dana van Nieuwaal-Stekelenburg

Pedagogical Advisor, Nuffic, The Netherlands

Dana van Nieuwaal-Stekelenburg works as a pedagogical advisor at Nuffic, the Dutch organisation for internationalisation in education. With a background in teaching socio-cultural diverse classrooms, she supports the researchers in her team by connecting the research findings about internationalisation in education with the educational practice. For example, by creating practical tools for professionals in education, or by facilitating sessions where researchers and practitioners can exchange ideas. 

Dana is especially involved with themes regarding international and intercultural competencies, global citizenship, internationalisation in teacher training, and inclusion. 

Laura E. Rumbley

Director for Knowledge Development and Research, EAIE, The 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.