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Research Associate (African Network for Internationalization of Education)
Name: James Otieno Jowi
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About Dr James Otieno Jowi
James Otieno Jowi is the principal education officer at the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat where he coordinates the development and implementation of regional education programs. He is the founding executive director of the African Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE), a pan-African organization focused on internationalization of higher education in Africa. Jowi is currently a member of the ANIE Board and chairs the research committee. Before joining the EAC, he was a senior lecturer at the School of Education, Moi 欧美福利100000, Kenya, where he taught comparative and international education.
Jowi sits on several international boards including the Inter-欧美福利100000 Council for East Africa (IUCEA), Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education & Research for Development (APPEAR), Norwegian Partnership Programme for Global Academic Cooperation (NORPART), Association of Studies in International Education (ASIE), the technical committee of AUs Committee of Ten Heads of States on Science & Technology, and the IAU Expert Committee on Internationalization. He has published extensively on internationalization in Africa and undertaken several studies and consultancies on higher education in Africa. Jowi holds a BEd and a master鈥檚 in linguistics from Moi 欧美福利100000, Kenya; a master鈥檚 in comparative & international education, 欧美福利100000 of Oslo, Norway; a PhD from the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), 欧美福利100000 of Twente, Netherlands