Professor Alex de Ruyter

Alex is a Professor at Birmingham City University and Director of its Centre for Brexit Studies, where he researches, gives public lectures and supervises doctoral students. He brings a wealth of research experience and academic engagement on Brexit and the related areas of regional economic development, skills and labour market issues. He has published over 60 academic outputs in leading national and international journals such as Work, Employment and Society, European Journal of Industrial Relations and Urban Studies, and been a recipient of external research funding. Originally Australian, Professor de Ruyter has been in the UK for 18 years.

Dr Vangelis Tsiligiris

Vangelis is a Principal Lecturer at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK; Visiting Professor at the Centre for Brexit Studies, Birmingham City University, UK; and Honorary Lecturer at the School of Management, University of Liverpool, UK.He has broad experience in European transnational education and internationalisation of higher education and he has acted as higher education policy advisor to the Ministry of Education and Employment of Malta, and the Ministry of Education of Greece.  Vangelis is the founder of the TNE-Hub (www.tnehub.org), a growing community of researchers and practitioners in transnational education.