26th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
20-23 AUGUST 2024

NAVIGATING INTERNATIONALISATION IN CHALLENGING TIMES

Speakers

Valile M Dwayi

Dr Valile M Dwayi (MCom, PhD)Director, International Higher Education, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa. His research interests, wherein he has 21 accredited publications to date, include transformation project in university education, focusing on quality, impact and transformative leadership.

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Nyarai Simbarashe

Dr Nyarai Simbarashe is an academic currently serving at the Women’s University in Africa (WUA), where she lectures and mentors students in Business Science at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She holds a PhD in Business Management from the University of Pretoria, where she focused on innovation and strategic management.

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Kari Knutson Miller

Dr. Kari Knutson Miller is Dean of Professional and Global Education, Senior International Officer, and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Stanislaus. Her portfolio includes International Education and Global Engagement (IEGE) and Continuing and Professional Education (CaPE) units. Signature academic programs at Stan State include those focused on Education, Health, and Wellness.

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Relebohile Moletsane

Relebohile Moletsane is Professor and the JL Dube Chair in Rural Education in the School of Education and Pro Vice Chancellor: Social Cohesion at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Using participatory visual methodology, her research focuses on rural education and development, girlhood studies, gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in South African

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Clarissia Bourdeau

Clarissia Bourdeau is a Program Associate with the Membership and University Relations team at Scholar at Risk (SAR). SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. The SAR Network is composed of over 600 universities from 42 countries working collaboratively to promote academic freedom

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Anaïs Georges

Anaïs Georges is a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. She holds a Master’s degree in Education and Globalisation from the University of Oulu. During her master’s studies, she contributed to a joint initiative of the Finnish University Partnership for International Development and the Global Innovation Network for Teaching and Learning in collaboration with

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Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela

Prof. Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela is the Associate Chancellor and Vice-Provost for Global Affairs & Strategies and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BA in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.  She received a Master’s in Labor & Industrial Relations and a

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Philina Wittke

Philina has been working in development cooperation contexts for the last ten years. Between 2013-2017, she was the director of the DAAD Information Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, for Southern Africa. In that capacity, she promoted international student and research exchange as well as funding opportunities for students to study in South Africa, Africa and

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