Kevin Van-Cauter is Higher Education Adviser at the British Council. Kevin advises on Higher Education policy in the UK, and specialises in the areas of Transnational Education (TNE) and education partnerships. He managed the Higher Education partnerships strand of the second Prime Minister's Initiative for International Education (PMI2) until the program ended in March 2011. He was a member of the UK government's e-learning task force 2010-11. Prior to that, Kevin's roles included advising on Distance Learning policy and Marketing UK Education.

Kevin has written several articles on UK Transnational education and student mobility and has presented at numerous conferences on the subject. Kevin co-authored Vision 2020 (published in 2003), the British Council's first attempt at forecasting international student mobility. Kevin's current work in TNE includes the development of a major piece of research on the impact and future of TNE, to be launched at Going Global in Dubai in March 2013.