About
Hans de Wit is Distinguished Fellow of the ‘Center for International Higher Education’ (CIHE) at Boston College, USA, and Emeritus Professor of the Practice in International Higher Education, Boston College. From 2015-2020 he was full-time director of CIHE.
He is IAU Senior Fellow by the International Association of Universities (IAU).
He is a 2026 International Visiting Professor of the School of Management of Zhejiang University in China.
He is a member of the expert team on Academic Freedom and Democratization of Science of the Council of Europe.
He is the Founding Editor of the ‘Journal of Studies in International Education’ (Association for Studies in International Education/SAGE), Co-Editor of the journal Policy Reviews in Higher Education (SRHE), and Co-Editor of the CIHE journal International Higher Education.
He is a founding member and past-president of the European Association for International Education (EAIE), founding director of the Center for Higher Education Internationalisation (CHEI) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, professor of Internationalization at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and Vice-President International of the University of Amsterdam.
He has been involved in quality reviews of internationalisation strategies and of internationalisation as part of institutional and national quality reviews around the globe.
He is (co-)author of many books, academic articles and blogs/essays on internationalization in higher education.
