Mervin Bakker has been working in international education for 25 years. Immediately before joining the EAIE as Executive Director, he was Director International Strategy and Relations at the University of Groningen. Earlier in his career, Mervin was Regional Director at Nuffic’s Netherlands Education Support Offices in South Africa and Indonesia. Prior to this, Mervin worked at the University of Amsterdam as Manager International Programmes and as Head of Marketing & Communications for the Faculty of Economics and Business. He has also worked for an education agent
in Thailand and ran a student related business in the Netherlands. Mervin holds an MSc in International Economics and Economic Geography from Utrecht University, and an MBA in Higher Education Management from the Institute of Education in London.
