Advisory Board

As the previous Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education at the US Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education in the administration of President Barack Obama, Mohamed promoted the study of foreign languages and the study of the cultures of other countries at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels in the United States. Mohamed is a Truman National Security Fellow and the author of a children’s book about stereotypes entitled  “What does a Muslim Look like?”

Shingo Ashizawa serves as an advisor for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) on the UNESCO Tokyo Recognition Convention Committee He is involved in advising governmental bodies related to the internationalization of Japanese universities. As a professor, Shingo Ashizawa teaches courses including “Immigration and Cross-cultural issues” and “International Student Mobility”. Shingo Ashizawa is a Fullbright scholarship grantee and has held positions at the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE).

Carolyn Finck Barbosa is a psychologist and a professor at the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia. She has also served as the director of International Affairs at the university. In the last 2 years, she has designed a virtual course on intercultural competencies and is interested in how students learn and how best to build and design a virtual environment for learning. Carolyn believes intercultural competencies are a means to a better world. 

With more than four decades of experience in international higher education, Dr. Gill served as the Dean for International Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She forged relationships with international governmental and institutional partners to further Harvard’s teaching and research mission. She negotiated scholarship agreements in Latin America, Asia, Europe, Canada, and Australia and partnered with international centers to expand resources for international students. She holds an undergraduate degree in History, an MA in Anthropology and following field work in East Africa, she completed a PhD in African Archaeology at Boston University.

In 2011, Julia González Ferreras received the Bo Gregersen Award for designing the Tuning Educational Structures in the World project with Robert Wagenaar. This innovative project has contributed to the improvement of higher education by developing and implementing curricula using the student-centered approach and the concept of key competencies as linchpins. Julia González Ferreras was Vice-Rector for International Relations at the University of Deusto at the time that she received this award.

Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans formerly served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-Principal (International) at GCU. She has worked at the University of Hull, UK, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and Maastricht Education and Research Centre, India. Jeanine holds a PhD in Internationalization of Higher Education. She publishes on intercultural competence and internationalization of higher education and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Studies in International Education (JSIE). Jeanine won the Bo Gregersen Award for innovative contribution to international education in 2008.

Keiko Ikeda is a Professor in the Division of International Affairs, and KU-COIL Coordinator at Kansai University. Recently, she has taken the role as the principal project manager for the Inter-University Exchange Project funded by MEXT, 2018-2022 ("COIL Plus Program to Develop Global Career Mindset"). Keiko is Vice-Director for the newly established organization at Kansai University, Institute for Innovative Global Education (IIGE). She has a Ph.D. from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, specializing in Japanese linguistics, foreign language education, and conversation analysis. Her interests in the international education field are internationalization at home, constructing active learning programs collaborating with universities overseas. Keiko also plays a vital role in another line of the on-going government-funded project, SUCCESS-Osaka Project (2017-2021). It promotes the employability of international students who have studied in Japan.

Francisco Marmolejo is currently the Education Advisor of the Qatar Foundation, where he advises the education strategy department. Prior to this role, Francisco served as the Global Lead Higher Education Specialist of the World Bank. At the World Bank, he supported country-level related projects in more than 60 countries. He was also a founding Executive Director of the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration, a network of more than 160 higher education institutions primarily from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.

Dr. Peter Nwosu (the “N” is silent), American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, started his tenure in 2019 as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success at the Herbert H. Lehman College, a Hispanic and Minority Serving Institution and a senior college of the 25-member colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest urban public university system. Prior to this role, he served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Clark Atlanta University (CAU), Atlanta, Georgia, a private Historically Black College and University, and Associate Vice President for Academic Programs and Accreditation Liaison Officer at California State University, Fullerton, a Hispanic Serving Institution. A passionate advocate for access to high quality education for our nation’s increasingly diverse student body, and a systems thinker and strategic planner with a strong belief in the power of collaboration and shared governance, he has led strategic initiatives to foster institutional effectiveness, advance student success outcomes, and enhance these institutions’ national reputation and visibility as engines of upward mobility and community
engagement.

Seun Bello Olamosu currently serves as Director of International Student Experience at Dartmouth College. Having worked in international education and higher education administration for over two decades, Seun is passionate about creating and providing access to transformative spaces where people can thrive and grow. Seun has been at the forefront of inclusive learning and internationalization efforts in her former roles, supporting the adjustment of students to academic environments and increasing the awareness and growth of staff, faculty, and administrators to their roles as change agents. Her own personal journey of navigating spaces, having been raised in Nigeria but living in the U.S for most of her life, makes her passionate about intercultural awareness and development. Seun earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development with a focus on Leadership in Intercultural and International Education from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research interests include student engagement, globalization and internationalization of education, intercultural development, and leadership.

Seema is a distinguished philanthropic leader with over 25 years of global expertise in spearheading international development initiatives. Her career has been marked by transformative contributions to social impact and policy reform across critical sectors, including public health, climate action, education, democratic governance, human rights, and justice.
Her exceptional expertise lies in developing innovative, sustainable solutions that elevate business practices and fortify communities. Seema is renowned for her successful track record in coaching organizations to enhance operational and financial efficiencies, build inclusive and culturally adept global teams, and implement ethical business practices.
Currently, Seema is a partner at Mpwr Solutions, where she designs and executes high-impact business performance and leadership programs for a diverse clientele. Her previous roles include President and CEO of Up with People, and senior positions with United Nations Development Program, The Aspen Centre, the Global Education & Leadership Foundation, the World Bank, and the Desai Foundation. Seema’s commitment to inclusion and equity extends to her service on the Advisory Boards of the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence and the Yakjah Reconciliation and Development Network. She advocates for dialogue-based peace interventions and serves as a Consulting Advisor to Apna Ghar Inc., focusing on cultural competence and transformative justice in gender-based violence response.