Elspeth Jones is Emerita Professor of the Internationalisation of Higher Education, Leeds Beckett University UK, and editor of the influential book series, Internationalization in Higher Education (Routledge). After many years as a practitioner, she has worked with a range of organisations across six continents. Elspeth has published widely and was awarded the inaugural North Star Medal of Lifetime Achievement in Transnational Research in the Noam Chomsky Global Connections Awards and the EAIE Award for Excellence in Research.