Douglas Proctor has been Director, UCD Global at University College Dublin (Ireland) since January 2017, and will shortly be returning to Australia to take up the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

A Senior Fellow of the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA), Douglas holds a PhD in international higher education from the University of Melbourne, where his doctoral research investigated the ways in which internationalization has influenced the international dimensions of academic work in Australia. Douglas is also co-editor (with Dr Laura Rumbley) of a 2018 Routledge book entitled “The Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education” offering new perspectives from a younger generation of scholars and practitioners on the future of internationalization in higher education.

Currently Chair of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) Publications Committee, Douglas has edited recent EAIE Forum magazines on the topics of Brexit, digitalization, employability, and resilience in uncertain times.