The Institute of International Education is pleased to be participating in this year’s Asia Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) conference, being held in Beijing from March 23–26 at the Beijing International Convention Center. In addition to hosting an IIE booth (C-60), IIE staff will be featured in the following events:

• March 24th, 4:00 PM—Update on Key Trends in U.S. Higher Education (Rajika Bhandari, Deputy Vice President, Research & Evaluation).
• March 25th, 9:00 AM—Asia as the Next Higher Education Destination? Intra-regional and Inter-regional Student Mobility (Rajika Bhandari, Ola Mahmoud, Research Officer, and Paul Turner, Regional Director for East Asia).
• March 25th, 4:00 PM—National Strategies to Enhance Outbound Mobility: Case Studies of Germany, Japan, and the U.S. (Rajika Bhandari).
• March 26th, 9:00 AM—Building Sustainable Asia-to-Asia Institutional Partnerships: Criteria, Configurations, and Case Studies (Diana Kartika Jahja, Executive Director, Indonesian International Educational Foundation (IIEF), Clare Banks, Assistant Director, International Partnerships and IIE Initiatives, Jonathan Lembright, Director for Southeast Asia, and Namrata Jha, Director, IIE-India).

IIE will also be holding an Asia launch of a new publication, Asia: The Next Higher Education Superpower? Edited by Rajika Bhandari and Alessia Lefébure, this publication critically examines the local and global trends driving higher education policies in Asia and their impact on the local and regional knowledge economies. IIE will be co-hosting a book launch event with EducationUSA at the EducationUSA booth (numbers C28, C29, C34, C35) from 12:30–2:00 PM on March 25th. The publication will also be sold at the IIE booth. 

If you are attending APAIE, please feel free to stop by the IIE booth to meet IIE staff members and learn more about the work we do in Asia and worldwide.