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Cornelius Hagenmeier currently serves as Head of Internationalisation at the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences and is also a Research Fellow of the University of the Free State. Hagenmeier held the position of Director for the office of International Affairs at the University of the Free State from 2017 until July 2023.
Hagenmeier is an international education administrator and legal academic, rooted in the German and South African jurisdictions. He was born in Darmstadt, Germany on 15 June 1971. He obtained his qualification to be appointable as a judge in Germany (assessor juris) before he decided to settle in South Africa in 2002. He holds South African LLB (UNISA) and LLM degrees (UCT) and is a non-practising attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
He serves in a voluntary capacity on the Board of the African Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation (AfriC). From 2015 to 2018, he was treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA). In addition to his managerial, administrative, and legal skills, he has extensive expertise in international higher-education partnerships and internationalisation strategy development. He has taught various short learning programmes in this field and facilitated relevant workshops.