I spent 5 years as inaugural Head of Study Abroad at King’s College London. I wrote a white paper on the possibilities of creating study abroad programmes which was well received. A green paper followed and I put together a team to realise my proposals.

Over those years, hundreds of students joined the university on semester-long programmes, joining King’s degree students in their classes, taking the same assessment and receiving credit which they could transfer home to their own degrees. With them came financial properity for the university.

Simultaneously, I expanded student exchanges and travelled across the globe meeting colleagues from other successful universities and signing partnerships with them. This enabled us to send King’s students for free to study elsewhere, and in return King’s would teach partners’ visiting students.

I negotiated and agreed partnerships with universities in: South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, USA, Canada, Chile, Mexico, the Caribbean, Australia, across Europe.