The Senior International Officer as Change Agent (PDF)

John D. Heyl is founder and editor of IELeaders.net, a website focusing on Senior International Officer (SIO) leadership issues. He was professor of history at Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL) and SIO at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Old Dominion University (VA). Heyl is former president (2000-2001) of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), author of The Senior International Officer (SIO) as Change Agent (AIEA, 2007) and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of International Higher Education (2012). He holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a PhD in European history from Washington University-St. Louis. Fiona J. H. Hunter is based in Italy where she works as Associate Director at the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation (CHEI) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. She is Co-Editor at the Journal of Studies for International Education (JSIE) and Past President of the European Association for International Education (EAIE). Alongside her role as a researcher, she also works as a consultant and trainer supporting higher education institutions around the world in their internationalization and strategic planning efforts. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Higher Education Management from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.