Sara López Selga

Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain

Sara joined Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, in 2007, where she is currently Director of International Relations. She is responsible for influencing and implementing internationalisation strategy, promoting agreements and projects for mobility and academic cooperation worldwide, supervising international student services and programme development. Previously, she gained professional experience at the Teaching and Learning Institute of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – UPC) and in Brussels, thereby becoming involved in coordinating an EU capacity building project with Latin America. In 2014 Sara conducted research in international education as a Schuman-Fulbright Scholar in the USA and received the EAIE Bo Gregersen Award for Best Practice as part of the Network of Catalan Universities. She holds a dual Bachelor’s degree in political sciences and sociology and a Master’s in public and social policies from UPF and has received executive training at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). 

Piet Van Hove

University of Antwerp, Belgium

Piet Van Hove is President of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) and Director of the International Relations Office at the University of Antwerp, where he previously obtained a Master of Laws. He has been active in internationalisation since 1995 and today manages a team of 18 staff members, dealing with university-wide policy formulation and execution in the area of internationalisation, international cooperation and networking. This ranges from student and staff mobility to development cooperation, services for international staff and students, international educational projects and strategic networking.
Piet has been active in the leadership of several professional associations and nonprofits at the national and international level for many years, such as Flanders Knowledge Area, ACA, the NGO APOPO and the EAIE. He presents frequently on the different aspects of internationalisation of higher education. Piet's term as President of the EAIE is from September 2022 to 2024.