Tia Loukkola is Director for the Institutional Development unit, which encompasses various activities with particular focus on providing services and supporting EUA’s members: Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP), EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE), EUA Solutions, EUA’s Annual Conference and the most recent addition, EUA”s Learning and Teaching Initiative. Tia and her unit also are in charge of EUA’s quality assurance and rankings activities, which include organising the European Quality Assurance Forum and carrying out projects in the field of QA and representing EUA in various European level higher education and quality assurance policy discussions, including the E4 Group cooperation.

Before joining EUA in April 2008 she worked at the University of Turku for ten years in various capacities both in faculty and central administration. Most of her work was related to study and international affairs of the university, while she also gained experience in budgeting and human resources. Before moving to EUA, she worked as Planning Officer on strategic management and as Quality Manager of the University.

Tia Loukkola holds a Master’s degree in French language and culture with minors in journalism, Spanish language and culture, and comparative literature from the University of Turku.