Global Experience Team
Global Experience Team
The Global Experience Team co-ordinate all the mobility programmes here at NCH. They are responsible for the smooth running of these programmes and deal with day- to-day operations including quality assurance, pastoral care, housing and extra-curricular activities.
Valentina Parrinello
Global Experience Manager
Valentina is responsible for the day to day oversight of the administrative support to the student mobility programs facilitating and promoting excellent student services.
Valentina has over 10 years’ experience in education. Prior to NCH she worked as Head of Student Services at Hult International Business School for over 5 years and in language schools before that.
She is passionate about creating a great student experience and enjoys building relationships with individuals from all backgrounds and cultures.
Valentina is from Rome, Italy and also lived in Brazil and the USA before moving to London in 2008. She is fluent in Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish and holds a BS degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology.
Matthew Greenwood
Residence Life Manager
Matthew has been working with international students for the last seven years working with over fifty organisations and universities and over four thousand students. Matthew has a real passion for helping students stay engaged and connected whilst they undertake the sometimes dizzying array of experiences students can experience whilst abroad; recognising that for some students this can be an incredibly tumultuous time period. His main goal is for students to always feel supported and able to achieve their individual goals. A keen historian Matthew has an MA in Eighteenth Century Studies from an interdisciplinary program part run by the British Museum and can often be found cycling around admiring all the sights of London!
Phillip Brookes
Global Experience Administrator
Phillip is originally from Birmingham and has recently moved to London. Feel free to ask him any questions about England’s second Capital.
During his time at University he studied International and Business Management. He is passionate about international education and was an international ambassador at the University of Worcester where he graduated. Philip has also done an exchange semester in PA, USA.
He is the first point of contact for mobility students, provides administrative support for the different programmes, helps with planning and delivering Global Experience events and activities and will make sure students will have a fantastic time!
Maja Sciuto
Pathway Programme Supervisor
Maja is responsible for supervising the team of Pathway Programme Coordinators, creating a supportive and welcoming environment for students while ensuring a smooth run of all mobility programme events.
Maja is originally from Copenhagen in Denmark but moved to London in 2019 to finish a masters degree in Anthropology and Cultural Politics at Goldsmiths University. Throughout her undergraduate degree, she did two study abroad semesters, one in Illinois in the US and another in Cambridge in the UK.
With a great passion for International Education, Maja’s main goal is to make sure mobility students have a great experience and feel supported and encouraged throughout their time studying abroad.
Patrick Tatarian
Pathway Programme Coordinator
As a Pathway Programme Coordinator, Patrick is responsible for delivering an engaging, empowering, and enriching experience for study-abroad students enrolled on the Northeastern University mobility programmes. Patrick ensures our students have a welcoming time in London whilst providing pastoral care, support, and supervision during their stay in the UK.
Patrick graduated with a BEng degree in Aerospace Engineering at Kingston University, but became passionate about higher education when he was elected as one of the student sabbatical officers at Kingston’s Students’ Union for two years. There he provided representation for students hailing from over 150 countries around the world, and has garnered a lot of knowledge of the International student experience in particular through his previous work at the Students’ Union of Kingston and CU London (part of Coventry University) respectively.
Patrick also took part in a foreign exchange project as part of a wider undertaking by the British Council and the Erasmus+ Programme, where he helped lay down the framework for the Student Representation, Self-governance, and Advocacy systems in partnership with student leaders at the Lviv State University of Life Safety in Lviv, Ukraine.
Being born and raised in London, Patrick is more than happy to impart his local knowhow to anyone who could find it useful, and enjoys making strong connections with people from all backgrounds and cultures. He is passionate about helping students to feel supported during their time overseas, and wants to make sure that their stay in the UK will be an enjoyable experience.