Anne Pakir, Associate Professor of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore (NUS), earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She also has an M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley under a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship. Her numerous publications span many areas, she serves on several editorial boards and she is a well sought after conference speaker. She is currently the Director of the International Relations Office at NUS.

The NUS International Relations Office (IRO), established in 1996, has developed deep international engagements with many peer institutions and fostered interactions and collaborations in education, research and technology. They work actively with more than 200 partner universities to provide exciting exchange programmes for their students in their mission for globalization and thereby helping to mould global citizens among their youth. Besides the Student Exchange Programme (SEP), IRO also works with NUS faculties and schools on other overseas attachments including summer schools, study visitations, research exchanges, industrial attachments, administrative staff exchanges, and international conferences.

Professor Anne Pakir presented during the 4d - Student mobility - critical success factors session.