Transnational Education Conference 2023

Emma’s professional career spans more than 30 years’ experience across all aspects of internalisation having held roles as strategic lead for international student recruitment, international partnership building and outbound student mobility.  She is an active member of international advisory boards and networks, works closely with the University’s senior leadership team to deliver institutional strategic objectives, has worked abroad as Head of International Development and Head of International Recruitment, and cites her study abroad year at Louisiana State University as the flame that kindled her life-long passion for international education.

Kaozara Oyalowo is the Policy Officer for Africa and the Middle East at Universities UK International. She leads UUKi's policy and engagement work with Africa and the Middle East, supporting UK institutions to achieve their international aims and has worked in Higher Education since 2018.

Jamie was appointed Director of Universities UK International (UUKi) in November 2022. Prior to taking on this role, Jamie led Universities UK’s research and innovation policy programme (2014-2017) before becoming Assistant Director for Policy Engagement at UUKi (2017-2022).  Before joining Universities UK in 2010, Jamie was a research associate and ESRC research fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Education and Social Research Institute. 

Janet Ilieva is the founder and director of Education Insight, a research consultancy specialising in international higher education. Janet's research focuses on global student mobility, university partnerships, transnational education, national policies for global engagement and sustainable development. 

Education Insight launched the Global Engagement Index (GEI), which is an open-access resource which captures the state of internationalism across UK higher education institutions.   Janet regularly undertakes research in higher education engagement for government departments, international organisations and universities. 

Professor Judith Lamie is Pro Vice-Chancellor International at Swansea University. Professor Lamie has spent over 30 years in higher education and held a number of senior executive positions at UK universities. Professor Lamie has published and presented widely in the fields of applied linguistics, change management and transnational education.

Professor Lamie’s latest book, with Chris Hill, ‘The Evolving Nature of Universities: What Shapes and Influences Identity in International Higher Education’, is due to be published by Routledge in August 2023. The book explores the very nature of a university – where does it sit at home and abroad – and uses international case studies to discuss growth, sustainability and risk as universities navigate their role, value and purpose. 

Latisha has spent the last five years as a public policy professional in the charity and non-profit sector, specialising in education, science, and global health policy. In her current role, Latisha supports UUKi’s policy influencing and global engagement activity on two key thematic areas – Transnational Education and Global Research & Innovation.

She is a champion of diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace, having led the Race Equity Network for over 3 years in her previous role. Prior to this, she studied Politics & International Relations at the University of Sussex.

Matt Western is the Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington. In March 2021, he was appointed as Labour’s Shadow Minister for Higher Education.  

Matt is also Chair of the APPG on Electric Vehicles and of the Motor APPG. 

Prior to entering Parliament, Matt studied at the University of Bristol. He then embarked on a 24-year career in industry both in the UK and Paris. Before his election as MP for Warwick and Leamington in 2017, he served as a Labour Warwickshire County Councillor from 2013 to 2018.  

He is a lifelong supporter of Arsenal Football Club and is a keen cyclist

Susanne has eighteen years of professional experience in international higher education with the DAAD. Since 2011, she has worked on transnational education in different roles, (co-)authored several articles on different aspects of German TNE activity and managed study projects on international TNE, its impact and terminology for the DAAD. In her current role, she and her team, with funds from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, support the activities of a German university consortium which is dedicated to the development and further expansion of the Vietnamese-German University, an autonomous public Vietnamese HEI based on the German university model.

Ian Storey has over twenty years of experience in the creative arts higher education sector; starting out teaching graphic design, Ian has subsequently held a range of leadership roles across areas such as Outreach, Access and Participation, Academic Development and Quality Assurance, and since 2014, in international partnerships and student recruitment. Since January 2023, Ian has been the Director of Global Engagement at University of the Arts London where his focus in on delivering inclusive and transformative experiences for UAL’s students and staff through international partnerships.

LSBU Global is led by Stuart Bannerman, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor International of London South Bank University (LSBU). Having taught at the universities of St Andrews and Glasgow, he launched the first International Study Centre in the UK at Queen Margaret University in 1998, introducing Graduate Diplomas for the first time as a pre-masters award for international students. He was also Head of EFL and Director of the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Dundee, and worked at the University of Essex, setting up and running the International Academy. He then took up the post of Director International for the launch of the new University of Suffolk. In 2016, he moved to London South Bank University, where he combined all the international functions into one Directorate and established, with QS Enrolment Solutions (QSES), the first comprehensive enquiry to enrolment assist service. As Associate PVC, he is now focussed on combining the online with traditional TNE in the newly created LSBU Global.

Professor Simon Guy’s remit is to develop, connect and lead Lancaster University’s digital, international and sustainability plans. He is leading on the growth of Lancaster University Leipzig, while continuing to develop Lancaster’s partner campuses in Malaysia, China and Ghana, and intensifying their inter-connectivity. He is currently working to establish a fifth campus in Indonesia in collaboration with Deakin University. He also he executive lead on Lancaster’s programme of digital transformation and is responsible for delivering on plans for de-carbonisation to meet Lancaster’s climate emergency declaration.