Global Experiential Learning & Employability: The Benefits of an International Experience on your CV

This panel will discuss how employers view an international experience on a CV and the unique advantages an international experience gives employees in the workplace. 

• André-Philippe Chenail, Senior Project Director, Foreign Direct Investment, Asia-Pacific and Middle East at Investissement Québec   

• Phil Cole, Vice President, Business Development, Marinvent Corporation

• Hawa Keita, Lead Concordia Africa Initiative

• Thi Be Nguyen, Executive Director of the Canada ASEAN Business Council
  

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*Note: Field School Tables are present from 10am - 2pm

Student Panel: Global Experiential Learning

Students will share how their experience abroad contributed to their academic studies and their personal development.

• Alex Oster, Coordinator Student Engagement, Dean of Students Office      

• Jimmy Barco Burrors, Ph.D. student, Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Mitacs Globalink Research Award for a research project in Mexico with the Universidad de Guanajuato 

• Christine White, MA student, Art Education, Fine Arts participated in the New Music and Media Arts Field school in Mexico 

• Andrew Keleny, Undergraduate student, Aerospace Engineering, participated in the Concordia Student Exchange program & International coop

• Marco Meneghin, Ph.D. student, Film & Moving Image Studies, participated in the New Music and Media Arts Field School in Colombia 
  

Faculty Panel: Value of Global Experiential Learning

The panel will discuss the value of a global experiential learning experience. Panelists will discuss why they lead these initiatives and the benefits they have seen to the students participating in experiential learning programs. 

• Aphrodite Salas, Professor, Journalism        

• Ricardo Dal Farra, Professor, Music

• Raymond Marius Boucher, Senior Lecturer, Theatre

• Luke Ofungi, Deputy Director, CEED Concordia

• Mark Sussman, Associate Professor, Theatre

• Linda Swanson, Assistant Professor, Ceramics
  

Faculty Panel: Research Collaboration - Standing out, stepping up!

The panel will discuss their international research collaboration and will examine how students can benefit from it!

• Monica Mulrennan, Associate Vice President, Research, Development and Outreach

• Tristan Glatard, Co-director, Applied AI Institute, Associate Professor Computer Science and Software Engineering

• Cédric Lesage, Associate Dean, Research & Impact, Professor, Accountancy, John Molson, School of Business

• Sarah Turner, Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment