Aparajita Dutta, Head of International Affairs at the Royal Academy of Art/Royal Conservatoire/ University of the Arts, The Hague, has been working in the field of internationalisation in higher education since 1999. She has worked for marketing and recruitment and gradually moved into policy, advising and research into the many facets of internationalisation and education, now also including diversity and inclusion. Aparajita is one of the founders and chair ofthe Platform Internationalisation ELIA(PIE) in 2018 and founder and chair of All Netherlands Art Academies International Relations Network (2013).

She has been the Chair of All Netherlands University of Applied Sciences International Relations Group (2019 – 2021) and member ofthe Agenda Committee forthe last 10 years. Aparajita has been giving keynote speeches and workshops on intercultural understanding and communication and internationalisation in art education. Since 2021 she is a member of the Advisory Board of International Research Project Lucerne Art Academy, Switzerland and National Institute of Design Ahmedabad India. Currently she is doing her PhD on internationalisation offine arts and design higher education in Europe at Leiden University, Department of Academic and Performing Arts.