Jocelyne Gacel-Avilà is a tenured professor in charge of the internationalisation process at University of Guadalajara. She is Vice-president of the Governing Board of the IMHE of the OECD, a member of the National System of Research of Mexico (SNI) level 2, a NAFSA Senior Fellow in Internationalisation, founding member and President of the Mexican Association for International Education (AMPEI), vice-president of the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC) for Mexico and member of the Global Advisory Council of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education. She has collaborated with different international organisations such as the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the European Commission, the International Association of Universities and the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education. She is the recipient of the CONAHEC Award of Distinction 2010 for her contribution to academic collaboration in North America and AMPEI prize 2006 for her contribution to Mexican Higher Education Internationalisation. She is founding director of international education magazine Educación Global and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Studies in International Education.