Coventry University Group, UK. Coventry University Group has appointed Leena Arora Kukreja as Regional Managing Director of its new India Hub, due to open later this year. Leena will be the most senior representative of the university group in the region and will lead the hub’s opening and the development of new collaborations. Alongside hubs in Brussels, Dubai, Africa, China and Singapore, the India Hub will be Coventry’s sixth global centre. Leena has extensive experience in facilitating bilateral and multilateral higher education, science and innovation collaborations, and was previously Senior Advisor at the Office of Science and Innovation based at Embassy of Sweden in New Delhi. She has also as Senior Advisor to the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, where she successfully managed the Australia India Strategic Research Fund, as Senior Advisor to the UK Science and Innovation Network for the British High Commission. Leena also established the Newton-Bhabha PhD placements and Newton-Bhabha Researcher Links Workshops as Head of the Newton fund at British Council India.