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Gyöngyi Horváth (GÉANT) is the Community Support Officer at the Amsterdam office of the GÉANT Association - formerly the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association, (TERENA) working with the organisation since 2007. Gyöngyi was born in Hungary and graduated from the University of Miskolc in 2002, with a Masters Degree in Sociology. Working with the community for over a decade and being responsible for organizing the community’s annual conference TNC she gained view on many future initiatives. GÉANT recognized the importance for our community to address the needs of students and educators with it supporting the educational institutions. For this a new role of Community Support Officer was created. With it lies the responsibility of working with the NREN community to support their efforts in enhancing their activities for education. Emailgyongyi.horvath@geant.org 


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Dragana Kupres (CARNET) is a project manager with 20 years of experience in educational technology. Her strong areas are strategic planning and project management in education, education research, innovation and policy related to educational technology. She was a chief editor of CARNET’s edu-tech journal Edupoint, leader and trainer in the E-learning Academy programme and is a main author and designer of the national e-Schools project with a proven track record in winning a 40million € contract. She is an advocate of participatory methods and is a practitioner of the art of hosting conversations that matters methodologies. Her educational background is in philosophy (University of Zagreb), educational technology (University of British Columbia) and is (for a quite some time) a PhD student at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She loves talking and thinking about the future. Email: dragana.kupres@carnet.hr


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Esther Wilkinson (Jisc, United Kingdom)

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Dr Esther Wilkinson is a specialist in international education in the UK, and the Head of International at Jisc, the body powering the UK’s higher and further education’s teaching, learning and research and inspiring its digital transformation. Esther leads Jisc’s international strategy and strategic development of Jisc’s transnational education support programme. A key part of Esther’s role is supporting the Global Research and Education Network CEO Forum, a strategic group of Chief Executives from a number of research and education networks around the world delivering global collaborations. Esther has worked in various roles in higher education, as Assistant Director at Universities UK International; the UK Research Councils for over 13 years; the Open University and a brief spell as a police officer. Esther has a BSc Hons, DIC and PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College, London. Email: esther.wilkinson@jisc.ac.uk 


Tomi Dolenc (ARNES, Slovenia)


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Birgitta Hemmingsson (MIUN, Sweden)

Jasmijn Jacobs-Wijn (SURFnet, Netherlands)

Swedish Council for Higher Education, UHR) is currently working with quality of distance education at national level (https://www.uhr.se/en/start/). She was the chair of the Swedish Network for IT in Higher Education (ITHU) for four years. and she has been working with educational services and technology development as well as community building for 10 years. She has also been working with development of design for sustainable digital conferences. Birgitta worked as Product Owner of media services for the Swedish NREN, Sunet, for several years, and it was within that work she became a member of the NREN educational expert group, that later transformed to TF-EDU. Email: birgitta.hemmingsson@uhr.se



Vegard Moen (UNIT, Norway)

Nathalie Roth (SWITCH, SwitzerlandVegard Moens (UNIT, Norway)