Philipp Reichert is an RCIC and the Coordinator of Immigration Advising Services at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Philipp has over 10 years’ experience studying and working internationally, most recently at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), with their International and Executive MBA programmes and the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) in the Netherlands. Growing up as an international student and attending educational institutions in Canada, USA, Germany and the Netherlands has led to his interest in the area of internationalization of higher education. He is a NUFFIC Huygens scholar and received his Master’s degree with honours in International Relations from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Currently he is a doctoral student at the University of Calgary with his research focusing on the internationalization of higher education and the nexus of government policy, institutional programming and international student career transitions. Philipp is also the lead instructor of the Canadian Bureau for International Education’s  (CBIE) International Students and Immigration Education Program (ISIEP) and is the 2016 winner of the CBIE North Star Award.