Tayyeb Shah, Vice President of the European Association for International Education, and former Deputy Vice Chancellor Global Partnership at the University of Western Australia, tells of his initial involvement in international education as the inaugural international director at Kings’ College University of London. Tayyeb shares his reflections on how academic power is moving east and the implications of this reconfiguration for international student recruitment and TNE.

He emphasises the need to consider the environmental impact of international education and the important work of the Climate Action Network for International Education, as well as the need to promote inclusive internationalisation, such as through collaborative online international learning. He reflects on the growing strategic importance of TNE, increasingly being considered now as an internationalisation strategy also by research-intensive universities, and growing expectations for mutually beneficial TNE partnerships… and the many memorable conversations, often late at night, conducive to deeper reciprocal understanding and international partnership building.