Karin Bennmarker

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Karin Bennmarker is the Alumni Coordinator at SLU- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Before the taking on the role as alumni coordinator, Karin has developed many exchange activities and has been responsible for the process of outgoing students with all that comes in the area, agreements, scholarships, reporting. As a Senior International Officer, Karin has gained experience of most of the EU funded mobility programmes as well as non-EU cooperation on a strategic level and hands-on mobility work as well as has taken part in national campaigns in the field of mobility. Karin has 25+ years of experience of internationalisation in higher education.

Since 2017, Karin’s responsibilities include developing strategies for alumni organisation and activities. Karin has in-depth experience from all fields within alumni work as she initiated the strategic alumni work at her institution, strategic planning, events, employability, alumni engagement, starting a CRM, and marketing and recruitment.

Karin has a part of the Expert Community Alumni Relations for the 2020–2024 term.

Karin is an alumna of Uppsala University in the field of English, Spanish, HR, pedagogy and educational planning. As a student long time ago, she developed the work with international students at Uppsala University. A hobby that became a career. 

Karin is creative, innovative, pragmatic and problem-solving!

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Christelle Cronje

Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa

Christèlle Cronjé is the Manager of Alumni and Stakeholders at Stellenbosch Business School, an alum of the business school, and alum of both Stellenbosch University and University Pretoria, SA. Her focus is on strategic integrated stakeholder management and engagement to optimize mutually beneficial relations and impact for the school and alumni in business and society.

 

Sandra Rincon

ALDEAS, Netherlands

Sandra is a trainer, researcher and author on global engagement. She believes in building communities to promote diversity as pillar in innovating a more inclusive, sustainable, and kinder world.
She authored Engaging International Alumni as Strategic Partners, (NAFSA, 2021), edited Alumni Connection (Hivebrite, 2023), hosted Brite Ideas, a podcast for advancement professionals and founded the Holland alumni network-NL, to support international alumni who stay to work after graduation. She is finalizing her PhD research at Tilburg University on the SDGs and international student-alumni engagement.
As a recognized leader on international education in Europe (PIE, 2023) and consultant with more 30 years of experience in the field, Sandra advises and trains professionals in governments and higher education institutions in building engaged global communities. She was senior consultant for EU Alumni initiative and director of international alumni relations at Tilburg University. 
Sandra serves as member of CASE Continental Europe Cabinet,  chair of EAIE’s Alumni Relations Expert Community and as research committee member of ICARe-Alumni. She presents annually at the CASE-EU, EAIE, ICARe-Alumni and NAFSA conferences and publishes often in professional literature on global engagement.  She is a life-time alumni member of UC Davis and an alum of UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton in USA. She divides her time between Tilburg, the Netherlands and Malaga, Spain.

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