StudyPortals, The Netherlands. Thijs has taken up the role of Director Analytics and Consulting Team (ACT) at StudyPortals in Eindhoven. From 2006 until 2016, Thijs was Director and Partner of iE&D Solutions, and international education consulting firm in the Netherlands and of StudyWorld (Netherlands), a recruitment agency and IELTS testing centre. Before then, Thijs worked for Tilburg University, the ERASMUS bureau in Brussels and for Sheffield Hallam University. He is the founder of the Professional Section on Marketing and Recruitment of EAIE, was the chair of M&R from 2002 until 2008 and was a member of EAIE’s executive board for four years. In September 2009, he was awarded the Bo Gregersen Award for Best Practice of the EAIE.