Hans de Wit is since 2015 Director of the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), based at Boston College, USA, where he also serves as professor.

[4] He was a member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board of the second edition of the Bologna Process Researchers' Conference in Bucharest, on 24–26 November 2014.

A prolific writer and blogger,[11][12] Hans de Wit is widely recognized as an influential scholar in the field of Internationalization of Higher Education.

Hans de Wit is founding member and past president of the European Association for International Education EAIE.

He has received several awards for his contribution to the field of international education: EAIE (1999 and 2008), NAFSA (2002), CIEE (2004 and 2006), University of Amsterdam (2006), AIEA (2006 and 2013) and AMPEI (2014).