Klaas Vansteenhuyse is the head of the International Office at UC Leuven-Limburg (UCLL) in Belgium. He is currently part of the board committee on Internationalisation of the Flemish universities and universities of applied sciences (VLUHR). In 2011, he co-authored a major report on the impact of Flemish university colleges in development cooperation. Between 2013 and 2017 he served on the board of VLIR-UOS, Development Cooperation for higher education, as the representative of the Flemish universities of applied sciences (VLHORA). Currently, he acts as chair of the Working Group on Internationalisation of Leuven MindGate. Klaas Vansteenhuyse also keeps a keen interest in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean on which he has published extensively as a Research Fellow of the KU Leuven and UC Louvain.