About the speaker
Hanneke Teekens brings more than forty years of experience in education as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and manager. She retired in 2013 from the Board of Directors of NUFFIC, the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education. At NUFFIC, Hanneke was responsible for a wide range of activities, including the international NESO offices in ten countries. She was director of the Socrates National Agency and Erasmus Mundus. Before joining NUFFIC, Hanneke worked at Twente University, the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, and the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning of the University of Amsterdam. She is the founder of Climes, her own consultancy company for coaching and advise in international education.
One focus of her research regards ways to support teaching staff in ensuring and demonstrating international, intercultural, and global learning outcomes. Hanneke has worked in many countries around the world in projects and training, and has published on various aspects of international education, in particular on Internationalization at home.
Hanneke is a frequent speaker at international seminars and conferences and is currently a senior fellow of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. She is Chair of the Board of AFS Netherlands, the organization that brought her to the U.S. as an exchange student in 1966. She studied at Leyden University and holds graduate degrees in History and Education.
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