Appointed Head of International Relations for the School of Business FHNW in 2008, Robert Buttery's work portfolio includes international issue monitoring for key operational and strategic decisions and their implementation. Robert lectures in Management and International Studies at the FHNW. He represents and promotes his university at Swiss and major international conferences, events and meetings, at which he gives presentations and runs workshops on student and faculty mobility, the use of social media, study destination marketing and higher education international networking strategies. In 2008, in joint partnership with Canadian universities, Robert successfully launched an intensive and ground-breaking programme (Canadian Academics Studying Europe-CASE) for faculty from Canadian business schools. CASE was awarded the BCCIE Award for Outstanding Programme in 2013 and the CBIE Panorama Award for Outstanding International Education Program in Capacity Building in 2014. Robert has lead several student and faculty mobility programs within university international consortiums and is an expert for program innovation, curriculum internationalisation and mobility. Robert sits on the EAIE Joint Leadership Board (2016-2018) as the elected Chair for the EAIE Business Education Expert Community. He is an active member on various international higher education committees.

• EAIE
• EAIE, Chair of Expertcommunity Business Education
• NAFSA
• APAIE
• Swissuniversities IRUAS