Maria Kelo is currently serving as the Director of the Secretariat of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and has a wide range of experience related to higher education. Her tasks within ENQA include: management of the ENQA Secretariat, act as Secretary to the ENQA Board, support and coordinate ENQA member agencies, manage projects, and represent the Association. She has previously worked as Senior Officer for the Academic Cooperation Association where was actively involved as an expert in Higher education policy developments and reforms at national and European level (Bologna, ET2010); higher education internationalisation and international cooperation; mobility; student services and attractiveness of European higher education; trans-national education. Maria is currently actively involved in quality assurance in higher education, European Higher Education area and the Bologna process, and internationalisation of higher education.