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International Advisory Board Members (Evolving list)

Our esteemed International Advisory Board Members include the following Professors/ Scholars:

Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed

President, Healthcare Paradigm

Medical Director, PharmEvo

CEO, eHealth Services

COO, Smart Health Care

CEO, Medical Voice

• Visionary strategist, entrepreneur & a physician leader who specializes in developing sustainable, scalable and innovative solutions in Healthcare through information technology
• Areas of interest, expertise & experience are eHealth, mHealth, Healthcare Quality, Medical Ethics, Healthcare Marketing, eLearning, CME/CPD & Medical Tourism
• President of Healthcare Paradigm & CEO of eHealth Services Pvt. Ltd and holds leadership positions in many companies including Smart Health Care, Medical Voice, Health Asia, PharmEvo Pvt. Ltd and Center for Type Development
• Current President of OPEN ( Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America) Karachi, National Convener of Quality in Healthcare chapter of QPSP, former National Coordinator for Telemedicine & eHealth, MoH, Government of Pakistan & Focal Person for eHealth for WHO
• As a globally recognized speaker, Dr. Zaki has been presenting at many eHealth / mHealth international conferences around the world in the last 10 years and serves on the boards of various international conferences and organizations
• In his “Country’s Firsts” include the first “Medical Call Center”; first “Hub & Spoke” Telemedicine Project; first Family Health Membership Program; first Videoconferencing Studio and Services; first National & International Telemedicine / eHealth Conference and Exhibitions; first TeleRadiology project; among many others

Professor Ejaz Akram

Associate Professor (Religion, Politics, Philosophy)

Humanities & Social Sciences Department

Lahore University of Mgmt Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan

• Faculty, American University in Cairo
• Summer Faculty of Franklin College, Switzerland
• Research and teaching focuses on Islam and the Muslim world, but also the religio-political issues and political philosophies of Judaism, Christianity and Hinduism (teaches a variety of courses such as: Religion and World Politics, Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Islamic Political Philosophy, Western Political Philosophy, Islam and the West, and Global Politics of the Environment)
• Research interests: Political Philosophy; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Dialogue; Environmentalism
• Published several books, scholarly articles, reviews and editorials, and appeared on several radio and television programs in North America, the Middle East and South Asia
• Some of his recent monographs/ articles are Political Philosophy of Iqbal in the Light of Tradition, Islam-Christian Relations: Impact of Western Missionary Activity on Coptic-Islamic Relations in Egypt; Crisis of Parliamentary Governance in Pakistan: An argument for Presidential Federalism, Globalization and the Muslim World: Modernity and the Roots of Conflict in Islam and Ummah and Transnational Muslim Solidarity
• His other scholarly works (Journal articles and Book Chapters) have focused on subjects relating to the interface of religious studies and political philosophy; religion and the dialogue of civilizations; and religious resurgence and fundamentalism
• Contributed to numerous dictionary and encyclopedia articles and has held editorial and academic positions in Europe, United States, Middle East and South Asia
• Also engages in ‘academic journalism’ on television – hosts weekly television show Discourse on Express TV Channel, which offers scholarly analysis and discussions on various subjects

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Professor Stephen E. Anderson

Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)

University of Toronto, Canada

• Research and consulting experiences situated in Canada, the United States, Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), Pakistan, and Chile
• Current research projects: A comparative study of school effectiveness in 22 high and low performing Ontario elementary schools; a study of school leadership in Chilean primary schools; an investigation of leadership practices affecting teaching and learning in the United States (9 states, 45 schools districts, 180 schools), a pan-Canadian study of policies affecting teachers work, case studies of school district efforts to develop teacher capacity to improve student learning in the United States, and evaluations of school and school district-wide school improvement projects in Pakistan and in Kenya
• Recent publications include journal articles and contributions to a book of findings from a large scale investigation of leadership in US schools; an edited book on school improvement in East Africa (Improving Schools Through Teacher Development: Case Studies of the Aga Khan Foundation Projects in East Africa), and a research report on the school district role in school improvement (Beyond Islands of Excellence: What School Districts Can Do to Improve Instruction and Achievement in All Schools)
• Research interests: implementation of education policy and program change, school improvement and teacher development (classroom, school, and school district levels), and program evaluation

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Professor Zaheeruddin Asif

Center for Computer Studies

Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Pakistan

• Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Computer Mediated Communication; Coordination; Deliberative Communication; Open Source, Social Software (Specialization in Online Communities of Practice)
• Teaching: Systems Analysis and Design, Management Information Systems; Database Management; Programming Language RPG II; Programming Language Visual Basic; Information Systems Management; Computer Applications to Business; Computer Concepts; Business Mathematics
• Project Manager, NETS (National Education Testing Service, similar to ETS, USA) – responsibilities included systems development, project management, evaluating technical and financial feasibilities; also training of staff, planning and organizing field tests for up to 10,000 students at the same time at different locations; liaison with the Ministry of Education for nationwide implementation of the scheme
• Project Manager, POF Enterprise Integration – involved requirements specification for the enterprise integration of POF (a large defense equipment manufacturing firm, having over 30,000 employees); objective was to implement fully integrated ERP system in a network of fourteen geographically dispersed factories
• 1990 –1991 IBM World Trade Corporation, Karachi, Pakistan
• Marketing Apprentice: Successfully connected for the first time in Pakistan, NBP S/36 to LAN 3270 ‘TRUE’ Remote Gateway; supported Banking Sector team

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Professor Dato’ Dr. Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid

Professor of Management, Education and the Social Sciences, Malaysia

Deputy Vice Chancellor, INTI Laureate International University

President, Malaysian Association of Educational Management and Leadership

• Former Director, Regional Center for Educational Planning (UNESCO-RCEP), Al Sharjah, U.A.E.
• Former Director, National Institute of Educational Management and Leadership (IAB), Malaysia
• Member of the Committee to study, review and make recommendations for the Reform on Higher Education in Malaysia
• Member, National Advisory Council for Education
• Fellow, Council of Educational Administration in Commonwealth Countries
• Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia
• Provided consultancy services in policy-making governmental committees, private sector and NGOs
• Recipient of the National Educational Leadership Award for distinguished and exemplary leadership across institutional, national and international contexts
• Recipient of the “Tokoh Kepimpinan Pendidikan Kebangsaan” the National Educational Leadership Award, the highest Educational Leadership Award in Malaysia awarded only to a few individuals who have demonstrated distinguished and exemplary leadership across institutional, national and international contexts

Professor Bijoy Barua

Former Dean (recently completed tenure),

Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

East-West University, Bangladesh

• Worked as researcher, teacher, trainer, program manager and consultant in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Ghana, Switzerland and Canada
• Recipient of the 2002 CASAE (Canadian Association for Study of Adult Education) Student Paper Award
• Senior fellow of the Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, Guild Independent Scholars, USA
• Offers courses at both Graduate and Undergraduate levels in the areas of Development Studies, Research Methodology, Civil Society, Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge, Development Management, Gender and Development and Sociology
• Published in various academic journals and contributed to the edited collections: Global Perspectives on Adult Education (Palgrave Mcmillan, 2009), Education Decolonization and Development (Sense Publishers, 2009) and Education, Participatory Action Research and Social Change: International Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
• Published book: Western Education and Modernization in a Buddhist Village: A Case Study of the Barua Community in Bangladesh (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009)
• Co-edited a book entitled, ‘Globalization, Culture and Education in South Asia: Critical Excursions’ (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2012)

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Professor Brian J. Caldwell

Managing Director & Principal Consultant, Educational Transformations Pty Ltd

Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia

Deputy Chair of Board, Australian Council for Educational Re-search (ACER)

• International work (last 25 years +) includes more than 500 presentations, projects and other professional assignments in/ for 40 countries or jurisdictions on six continents
• Approximately 180 published papers, chapters and monographs – author or co-author of books that have helped guide educational reform in several countries
• Appointed Professorial Fellow and Emeritus Professor in 2004
• Dean of Education, University of Melbourne (1998 to 2004)
• Head, Education Policy and Management, University of Melbourne (1995-1998)
• Head, Teacher Education (1988-1989) and Dean of Education (1989-1990), University of Tasmania
• Research Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, Canada (1979-1981)
• Held leadership positions in schools in Australia (1963-68) and Canada (1968-1977)
• Former Chair of the Advisory Board of the Asia Education Foundation from 1998 to 2004.
• Former Member of the Board of Patrons of Foundation for Young Australians (FYA)
• Fellow and Life Member, the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL)
• Fellow and Life Member, the Australian College of Educators (ACE)
• President, ACEL (1990 to 1993; patron of ACEL (Victoria) – Awarded its Gold Medal in 1994
• Awarded the College Medal of ACE (2005)
• Awarded the Sir James Darling Medal of ACE (Victoria) – 2004
• Awarded the Hedley Beare Educator of the Year Award of ACEL (Victoria) – 2004
• Most recent book (with Tanya Vaughan): Transforming Education through the Arts’ (Routledge, 2012)
• Forthcoming book (with Jim Spinks): ‘The Self-Transforming School` (Routledge, 2013)

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Professor Elias G. Carayannis

Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Director, Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the European Union Research Center (EURC),

George Washington University School of Business, USA

• Editor-in-Chief, the Book Series on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar)
• Editor-in-Chief, the Book Series on Technology, Innovation and Knowledge Management (Springer)
• Editor-in-Chief, the International Journal of the Knowledge Economy (Springer) and the International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (IGI Global)
• Associate Editor, the International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development
• Editorial Board Member, IEEE TEM and the International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management
• Member, Board of Directors, the International Association for the Management of Technology (IAMOT)
• Published eleven books to date on science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship
• Consulted for several technology driven government, private and large organizations, as well as small organizations such as the World Bank, the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank, the US Agency for International Development, the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Program

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Professor Tien-Hui Chiang

Chairperson, Department of Education

National University of Tainan, Taiwan

Director, Chinese Comparative Education Society

• Research Interests: Sociology, Sociology of Education; Sociology of Curriculum Knowledge; Comparative Education; British Education; History of Education, Teacher Education
• Primary teacher (1983-1991)
• Part-time Lecture (1993-1995)
• Part-time Associate Professor (1996-1997)
• Associate Professor (1997-2002)
• Professor for 6 years (2002~)
• Head & Director, Department of Comparative Education, Chi-Nan University (2004-2005)
• Dean, The Office of Research and Development, National University of Tainan (2006-2007)
• Member, Secretary-General Chinese Comparative Education Society – Taipei (2004~5)
• Executive Committee Member, Chinese Comparative Education Society – Taipei (2005~)
• Executive Committee Member, Taiwan Association for the Sociology of Education (2000~2006)
• Senior Executive Committee Member, Taiwan Association for the Sociology of Education (2006)
• Editor, Taiwan Journal of Sociology of Education (TSSIC) (2002~6)
• Editor in Chief, Taiwan Journal of Sociology of Education (TSSIC) (2006~)
• Editor, Journal of Education Studies (2006~2007)
• Editor in Chief, Journal of Education Studies (2007~)
• Editor Comparative Education (2007~)
• Editor, Journal of Research on Elementary and Secondary Education (2007~)
• Editor, Educational Review (TSSCI) (2007~)

Professor Jagdeep S. Chhokar

Professor, Manager and Engineer, India

Citizen-activist for improving democracy and governance

A bird watcher and conservationist

A trained lawyer

• Founder Member, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR, www.adrindia.org)
• Formed Professor (teacher, trainer, researcher, and advisor) of Management and Organisational Behaviour, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1985-2006)
• Former Dean, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
• (A concerned citizen, lawyer, and a birdwatcher)
• Engineer-manager, Indian Railways (former)
• Taught in several countries including Australia, France, Japan, and the US
• Professional interests cover all aspects of organisational functioning, cross-cultural management; international marketing; international management; international business; human resource management; business strategy and policy; management in government, and in public systems/sector; and industrial and occupational safety
• Broader interests include electoral and political reforms, informed choice (freedom of information), world affairs, and ornithology (bird watching)
• His research has appeared in several international journals
• Contributed chapters to edited books and has written several teaching cases
• Lead Editor of a volume titled Culture and leadership across the world: The GLOBE Book of in-depth studies of 25 societies, brought out by the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Research Programme, and published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, N.J. (now Routledge/Psychology Press), in 2007

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Professor Ricardo Chiva

Department of Business Administration and Marketing

University Jaume I, Spain

• Teaches subjects related to human resource management; his main area of interest is organizational learning

Professor Aziz Choudry

Department of Integrated Studies in Education

McGill University, Canada

• Research Interests: Focuses on learning in social action and knowledge production in activist/social movement milieus. He is interested in examining issues of power, knowledge and social relations in local and transnational community organizing/NGO/trade union/social movement networks, and histories, knowledge and theory ‘from below’. He explores questions of education, development, social justice and resistance through a critical, interdisciplinary, anti-colonial lens which connects theory to practice; also works on immigrant and migrant labour issues
• Involved in community and social justice activities (such as, board member, Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal)
• Principal investigator on two funded research grants: 1) a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) standard research grant, and 2) a Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS) Fonds des services aux collectivités grant, in partnership with le Centre international de documentation et d’information haïtienne, caribéenne et afro-canadienne (CIDIHCA), Montreal
• Collaborator (with Principal Investigator, Dr Jill Hanley, McGill School of Social Work) Les droits sociaux des travailleurs migrants en régions : un projet de développement de compétences des intervenants communautaires, in partnership with the Immigrant Workers Centre/Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrant(e)s, Montreal
• Board Member/North America Regional Representative, Research Committee on Labour Movements (RC44), International Sociological Association,
• Co-editor (with Anila Asghar and Teresa Strong-Wilson), McGill Journal of Education
• Member, the global spokescouncil
• Regional editor, Interface – a journal for and about social movements
• Member, editorial boards of the journals Labour, Capital and Society and Socialist Studies.
• Co-organized, the New Voices in Labour Studies conference held at L’Université du Québec à Montréal (March 2012)

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Professor David Collinson

Chair, Head of Department,

Management Learning and Leadership

Management School, Lancaster University, UK

• Founding Co-Editor, the international journal: Leadership (Sage)
• Co-organiser, ‘International Studying Leadership Conference’
• Appointed Chair in Leadership and Organisation at Lancaster (2002)
• Previously, worked at the Universities of Warwick, South Florida, St. Andrews and Manchester
• Elected as the Hallsworth Visiting Professor at Manchester Business School (In 2001)
• Published nine books (with a four volume set on ‘Major Works in Leadership’ forthcoming) and over one hundred articles, chapters and research reports that seek to contribute to the development of critical approaches to leadership, management and organization studies
• Awarded ‘2008 Lancaster University Research Prize (Established Researchers)’ for ‘excellent work in the field of leadership’
• Conducted empirical research (over the past thirty years) on various leadership and management practices within diverse private and public sector organisations from computing, insurance and engineering companies to North Sea oil installations
• National Research Director (2006-2009) for the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL)/Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), leading over 90 HE and practitioner research projects in the UK learning and skills sector
• Lead investigator on five research projects funded by CEL/LSIS (2003 and 2009)

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Professor Christopher Day

Emeritus Professor of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences

Co-Director, Teacher and Leadership Research Centre (TLRC)

University of Nottingham, UK

Adjunct Professor, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Visiting Professor at the InHolland University, The Netherlands

• His particular concerns centre upon the continuing development of teachers, teacher effectiveness, teachers’ lives and work, successful school leadership, learning networks, action research and change
• Leads the Teachers’ Work and Lives and School Leadership Research groups in the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities
• Worked as a teacher, lecturer and local education authority adviser
• During the last twenty years, he has extended his writing and international experience through national, European and international research projects and consultancy in Europe, the Americas and Australasia, including keynote addresses and paper presentations at several national and international conferences.
• Editor, ‘Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice’
• Member, Editorial Board, The British Educational Research Journal
• Recently completed directing a four year DfES funded research on variations in teachers’ work, lives and effectiveness; and co-directing a DfES project on the evaluation of CPD; a nine country European project on successful principals in schools in challenging urban contexts; a national project on school leadership and pupil outcomes; and a national project on effective classroom teaching
• Currently directing an 15 country project on successful school principalship
• His books have been published in several languages and include: The International Handbook of Teacher and School development (2012) ; New Understandings of Teachers’ Work: Emotions and Educational Change (2011); The New Lives of Teachers (2009) Teachers Matter (2007) Open University Press; Successful Principalship: International Perspectives (2007); A Passion for Teaching (2004) London: Falmer; International Handbook of the Continuing Professional Development of Teachers (2004), Maidenhead, Open University Press and others
• Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linkoping, Sweden (1993)
• Awarded the Michael Huberman Award for excellence in research on teachers by the American Educational Research Association (2010)

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Professor Sanjay Govind Dhande

Director,

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur

• A brilliant academician of high caliber
• Extending his services in the field of technical education and research for the past 30 years
• Under his leadership, IIT Kanpur has become an internationally acclaimed Institution for its excellence in engineering education and research
• Founder Director of PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur
• Served as Director, ABV-IIITM, and Director-Mentor, IIT Rajasthan
• Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (PM-SAC), February 2005 to November 2009
• Served as a part-time member of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
• Presently, member of various Governing bodies of many Institutes and Research Organizations
• Served as Chairman as well as member of various Task Forces, Committees constituted by the Government of India (Electronic Depository of Academic Qualification & Certificates, Faculty Shortage and Design of Performance Appraisal systems, Anti-ragging committee, National Legal Knowledge Council set up by the Bar Council of India)
• Member, National Innovation Council set up by the Prime Minister of India
• Non-official part-time Director on the Board of Nayveli Lignite Corporation and ONGC Videsh Limited
• Awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) by the Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun in recognition with his contributions in the fields of technical education and engineering research & technology
• Regarded as the pioneer of the field of Computer Aided Design (CAD) in India
• Has been spear-heading the growth of CAD for the benefit of Automobile and Aerospace Engineering as well as Software industry, besides grooming valuable human resource in this area
• Also credited with his pioneering work in the fields of Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Tooling and Reverse Engineering (AUTOLAY, an innovative CAD technology, developed for Aeronautical Development Agency by Professor Dhande is being used actively by the leading aircraft manufacturers of the world
• As Director of IIT Kanpur, he has undertaken several bold and innovative steps in the field of technical education (e.g. PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur; Indian Institute of Saddlery Technology and Export Management – IISTEM; new initiatives like Biological Sciences and Bio Engineering, Environment and Earth system Sciences under MP LAD Scheme undertaken at IIT Kanpur; Development of Samtel Centre for Display Technology; projects like Nano-technology Centre, Frontiers of Engineering, RFID, Computer Security, Homeland Security, Focused Ion Beam (FIB), IDFC Infrastructure, etc.)
• The Railway Technology Mission is propelled under his Chairmanship with a vision plan for development of indigenous technologies for the Railway safety system.
• Has been extending the executive help in preparing the vision documents, charters and background papers for helping the Govt. of India in establishment of Indian Institutes of Science for Education & Research (IISER) at Pune and Kolkota
• Contributed extensively as a member of the Governing Body of the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Indo-French Cooperation Program, Indo-Japan Coordination Programs and International Academic Advisory Panel of Government of Singapore, etc.
• Actively participated in the efforts of Government of India for establishing Indo-French Cyber University
• Helped in spelling out Information Technology policy of the Government of Uttar Pradesh as a member of the IT Sub-committee UP Development Council for the balanced development of the slow-paced regions of the state
• Always contemplated on harnessing the technology for the benefit of rural Indian folks by designing different innovative projects like Infothella and Digital Mandi for agriculture farmers, technology development for Footwear industry and handicrafts, Tele-medicine for healthcare of rural masses, indigenous Saddle Tree designing etc. (under the initiative of Media Lab Asia as its Technical Director)
• His achievements as an academician, researcher, administrator and visionary are all directed towards meeting the ultimate societal objectives of balanced growth in all spheres with the help of the powerful tool of technical education and research.

 

Professor Yrjö Engeström,

Professor of Adult Education

Director, Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research, University of Helsinki, Finland

Professor of Communication at University of California, San Diego

Honorary Professor, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK

• Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California, San Diego (990 to 1995)
• Interested in Cultural-historical Activity Theory and developmental work research in general. Currently, focusing especially on co-configuration as a new way of organizing work, and expansive learning in multi-activity settings
• Works within the framework of cultural-historical activity theory – known for his theory of expansive learning. Studies transformations in work and organizations, combining micro level analysis of discourse and interaction with historical analysis and modeling of organizations as activity systems working through developmental contradictions
• His research groups use intervention tools such as the Change Laboratory, inspired by Vygotsky’s method of dual stimulation, to facilitate and analyze the redesign of activity systems by practitioners
• Current research is focused on health care organizations, a bank, and a telecommunications company striving toward new forms of co-configuration and knotworking
• Recent books include: Cognition and Communication at Work (edited with David Middleton, 1996), Perspectives on Activity Theory (edited with Reijo Miettinen and Raija-Leena Punamäki, 1999), and Between School and Work: New Perspectives on Transfer and Boundary Crossing (edited with Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn, 2003)
• New book: Collaborative Expertise: Expansive Learning in Medical Work (to be published by Cambridge University Press)

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Professor Nina Evans

Associate Head, School of Computer and Information Science (CIS),

University of South Australia, Australia

• Teaches courses in the areas of Knowledge Management and ICT Leadership on Masters’ and Doctorate level and undergraduate courses in Business Information Systems and IT Stakeholder Engagement
• Research interest is related to the business-ICT interface
• Conducted diverse research projects on Knowledge Management, Business-IT fusion, ICT Education, Women in ICT, Information Asset Management and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Published in numerous international journals and delivered presentations at international conferences.

 

Professor Colin Evers

Professor of Educational Leadership

School of Education

University of New South Wales, Australia

• Prior appointment: Professor of Education at The University of Hong Kong
• Research interests include educational leadership, administration and policy, philosophy of education, and research methodology; his interest in research methodology flows from a perspective on epistemology that is naturalistic and coherentist
• Currently, co-editing a Special Issue of the journal, Comparative Education devoted to an examination of the relationship between Confucian heritage cultures and methodology
• Journal Co-editor International Studies in Educational Administration (1999 – 2006)
• Published around seven books, including: Leadership for Quality Schooling: International Perspectives (Routledge/Falmer, London), Doing Educational Administration (Pergamon Press, Oxford), Exploring Educational Administration, (Pergamon Press, Oxford), Educational Administration: An Australian Perspective, (Allen & Unwin, Sydney), Knowing Educational Administration, (Pergamon Press, Oxford) and others
• Special issues of journals: Comparative Education (2011); Journal of Educational Administration (2001); Educational Administration Quarterly (1996); Educational Philosophy and Theory (1987)

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Professor Alex Faria

Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration

Getulio Vargas Foundation (EBAPE/FGV), Brazil

• Areas of interest and professional experience include: Corporate Strategy and Strategic Management, Decision-making Processes, Marketing Strategy, Critical Studies in Organizations
• Adjunct Professor, Candido Mendes University (1993-1999)
• Adjunct Professor on the Masters Program in Administration, Pontifícia Universidade Católica of the State of Paraná (PUC-PR) (2000-2002)
• Adjunct Professor, the Institute of Administration and Management of Pontifícia Universidade Católica of the State of Rio de Janeiro (IAG/PUC-Rio) (2003)
• Researcher for CNPq (Brazilian Scientific and Technological Development Council)
• Member, Organizing Committee of the 1st Strategy Studies Meeting (3Es) – 2003
• Professional experience in the area of marketing and consultancy in the area of corporate strategy

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Professor Steve Fuller

Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology

Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (since 1995)

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

• Founder of the research program of ‘Social Epistemology’ – a quarterly journal he founded with Taylor & Francis (in 1987)
• Organized two global cyberconferences for the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council: one on public understanding of science (1998), and another on peer review in the social sciences (1999)
• Has spoken in 30 countries, often keynoting professional academic conferences,
• Awarded a D.Litt. by Warwick in 2007 for significant career-long contributions to scholarship
• His writings have been translated into twenty languages
• His book ‘Kuhn vs Popper’ – named book of the month (2005) by the US magazine
• His book ‘Popular Science, The Intellectual’ – named book of the year (2005) by the UK magazine New Statesman
• His book ‘Dissent over Descent’ – named book of the week by Times Higher Education (2008)
• Fuller was UK partner for a Ford Foundation project on the future of higher education, UK partner for an EU FP6 project on the Knowledge Politics of Converging Technologies, and Principal Investigator for an ESRC project on Mimetic Factors on Individual Behaviour
• He welcomes students working in the sociology of knowledge, history, philosophy and sociology of science, the nature the university and intellectual life, and normative issues relating to recent developments on the impact of science and technology on the political order, especially concerning our changing conceptions of the biological and what it means to be human
• Some of his recent books: Humanity 2.0: What It Means to Be Human Past, Present and Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); Science: The Art of Living (Acumen, 2010); The Sociology of Intellectual Life (Sage, 2009); New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies (Polity, 2007); Science vs Religion? (Polity, 2007); The Knowledge Book: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Science and Culture (Acumen, 2007); The New Sociological Imagination (Sage, 2006); The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies (Routledge, 2006); The Intellectual (Icon 2005); Knowledge Management Foundations (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002); Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times (University of Chicago Press, 2000); The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (Open University Press, 2000).

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Professor Ayla Goksel

CEO, Mother Child Education Foundation, Turkey

CEO, Hüsnü M. Özye?in Foundation

Trustee, Ozyegin University

• As CEO of Mother Child Education Foundation, a Turkish NGO working in early childhood, female literacy and parent training, she has led the growth of ACEV to become one of the most effective NGOs in Turkey by providing education services for over 550,000 individuals and training of 6,500 teachers and volunteers – ACEV’s programs are also implemented in nine other countries in the Middle East and Europe
• Contribution as CEO of Hüsnü M. Özye?in Foundation: A foundation that has provided financial aid for over 10,000 students, constructed and donated 65 schools, dormitories and social facilities, undertaken cultural restoration projects and founded Özye?in University
• A Trustee of Ozyegin University
• Serves on the Boards of the Education Reform Initiative, TOHUM Foundation for Autism and Women’s Fund, KAG?DER
• She was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008

Professor S. Gopinathan

Professorial Fellow at the Policy & Leadership Studies (PLS) and Curriculum, Teaching & Learning (CTL)

Associate Dean, Office of Education Research (Former)

National Institute of Education, Singapore

Adjunct Professor, UniSIM

• Head, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (2008-2009)
• Dean of former Foundation Programmes Office (2000-2003)
• Dean, School of Education (1994-2000)
• Played a key role in the establishment and transformation of Singapore’s education system, pioneering many programmes and advising on policy both nationally and internationally; extensively involved in the development of teacher education in Singapore (Considered as a pillar of teacher education in Singapore)
• Involved in setting up the Singapore Centre for Teaching Thinking and the Principals Executive Centre
• Contributed over 25 books (authored, co-authored and edited) and 115 articles and book chapters to the field, and continues to inspire and empower younger colleagues in the region to challenge the cause for excellence in education and education reform
• Founding editor of the Singapore Journal of Education re-named as APJE later); serves on the International Advisory Board of the Asia Pacific Journal of Education (APJE)-Taylor & Francis
• Co-editor, Critical Studies in Asian Education (Routledge)
• Served on various Ministry of Education (MoE) review committees
• Resource Specialist for the Government Parliamentary Committee on Education
• Founder member, the Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS)
• Board Member of the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board
• Consultant to the Singapore Teachers Union
• Advisor to the Ngee Ann Polytechnic
• Involved in projects to establish teacher training facilities in Abu Dhabi, in Bahrain and in Indonesia
• Served as a consultant to the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, the Commonwealth of Learning, the Hong Kong Institute of Education, University Brunei Darusaalam and the Aga Khan University Institute of Education

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Professor Anil K. Gupta

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India

Founder & Coordinator, Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI)

Founder, Honey Bee Network

Executive Vice-chair, National Innovation Foundation, India

Founder, Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN)

Honorary Professor, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, China

• Visiting Professor of Innovation Management in Emerging Markets, European Business School
• Guest faculty, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• Berlin Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences
• Fellow, The World Academy of Art and Science, California (2001)
• Member, National Innovation Council
• Member, National e-Governance Advisory Group, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, New Delhi
• Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Sustainable Development
• Editorial Board, of International Journal of Commons, IASCP

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Professor Md. Mamun Habib

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Operations Management, Faculty of Business Administration,

American International University (AIUB), Bangladesh

• Graduate School of Business (GSB) Thesis/Dissertation Committee Member at Master Degree/Ph.D. Level, Assumption University of Thailand
• Ph.D. External examiner, Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) – Deemed University, India
• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM), Exceling Tech Publisher, London, UK
• Editorial Board Member/Reviewer, Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) – Wiley Blackwell, Journal of Operations Management (JOM) – Elsevier, International Journal of Engineering Business Management (IJEBM), Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management (JOSCM), International Journal of Business Research and Management (IJBRM), China-USA Business Review, The Global Journal of Management and Business (GJMBR), Global Journals Inc. (US), and so on.
• About 40 research publications, including 21 International Conference Proceedings, 11 Journals, and 8 Books/Books Chapters. Books published from India, Croatia, and Germany. Published 3 books are available at Amazon.com.
• Supply Chain Management is his main research area. Supply Chain Management model for Tertiary Educational Institutions was developed during his Ph.D. level.
• Serving as Organizing Committee Member, Technical Committee Member, Track Chair, Session Chair as well as Reviewer of different International conferences, namely IEEE ICMIT’2010 (Singapore), IEEE ITMC’2011 (San Jose, CA,USA), IEEE IEEM’2011 (Singapore), IEEE ICMIT’2012 (Indonesia), IEEE ITMC’2012(Dallas, TX, USA), INFORMS IEOM’2012 (Istanbul, Turkey), IEEE IEEM’2012 (Hong Kong), etc.
• Received “2012 IEOM Best Track Chair Award” at International Conference Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)
• Nominated for “Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Management” by Prestige Institute Management Dewas (PIMD) in International Conference ProCON’2012

Professor Philip Hallinger

Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change,

Hong Kong Institute of Education,

Hong Kong, China

• Internationally recognized scholar in the field of Educational Leadership and Change, as an innovation leader in the areas of instructional leadership, educational change, leadership development, and school improvement in leadership development – a prolific author, trainer and consultant
• Has lived in Asia for the past 18 years and works extensively with both private and public sector organizations
• Chief Academic Officer and Professor of Management, College of Management at Mahidol University, Thailand (2000 -2008)
• Professor of Leadership and Organization and Director, Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Leadership at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, USA (1987-2000)
• Published 10 books, 35 book chapters, over 100 journal articles on leadership and management including 30 in SSCI journals and twice serving as a Senior Co-editor of the International Handbook of Research in Educational Leadership and Administration; has co-authored the most widely cited series of reviews of empirical research on school leadership published in the field
• Authored the Principal Instructional Leadership Rating Scale (PIMRS), the most widely used survey instrument in the world employed internationally by researchers for measuring school/ instructional leadership (more than 125 doctoral dissertations have used the PIMRS internationally)
• With collaborator Prof. Edwin Bridges, pioneered the use of problem-based learning in management education and has trained professors from throughout the world in the use of PBL
• Most recently, led in design and implementation of a “problem-based learning track” in a large Master of Management degree program in Asia
• Authored a series of problem-based, computer simulations for use in management education that have been translated and adapted into Thai, Korean, Malay and several European languages
• Has been instrumental in stimulating the initiation and development of school leadership development centers in the USA, Canada, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia
• Has been selected by education ministries in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand to be personally responsible for designing and implementing (i.e., training) induction and professional development programs for large numbers of school principals
• As Chief Academic Officer of the College of Management, Mahidol University, led the development of a highly successful student-centered graduate program in management education

Professor Jamaliah Abdul Hamid

Faculty of Educational Studies

Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

• Teaching and research interest are principalship studies, school management, and student leadership development
• As a former teacher and eighteen year experience working as a deputy director in various divisions in the Ministry of Education, has enabled her to develop the curriculum content of the leadership courses offered in the university
• Worked sat the following Ministry Divisions: Curriculum Development Centre, Institut Aminuddin Baki (also called the Institute of Educational Leadership Training), and the Educational Technical and Vocational Division
• In addition to her expertise in Administration, Management and Leadership, she has also actively developed another expertise in the area of Knowledge Management as a natural extension of how organizational management can benefit from information systems
• Deputy Director, Knowledge Management Centre, University Putra Malaysia (till 2006) – planned and implemented the development, sharing and use of knowledge in the university
• Invited speaker on Knowledge Management in several seminars organized by local and international agencies and has also conducted training on knowledge management strategies locally and internationally
• Delivered specific knowledge management architectural plan and knowledge use in workflows, client/customer management, and human resource management for Anti Corruption Agency, Malaysia and Malaysian Civil Service (JPA) Senior Officers Strategic Meeting
• Led several teams in several knowledge technology innovation, including automatic systems for multi-faceted staff appraisal and automatic extraction of knowledge ontologies from texts
• Published several books and articles, led research projects, presented papers, supervised doctoral and masters research, and examined theses in educational administration, leadership, and knowledge management
• Current research interests: Educational Administration, Management and Leadership, Knowledge Management, Educational Policies

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Professor Harukiyo Hasegawa

Professor of Business Studies

Graduate School of Business

Doshisha University, Japan

Dean, Global MBA at DBS

Honorary Professor of Japanese Business,

University of Sheffield, UK

• Former Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies (1990-2004), University of Sheffield (UK)
• Dean, Doshisha Business School (2008-2009)
• Honorary fellow of the White Rose East Asia Centre (UK)
• General Editor, Asian Business & Management (SSCI, Palgrave Macmillan)
• Series Editor, Macmillan Asian Business Series
• President, Euro-Asian Management Studies Association (2008-2010)
• Published numerous articles, book chapters and books
• Latest publication: the text book, Asian Business and Management: theory, practice and perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
• Areas of Expertise & Research interests: Global Management, Global Human Resource Management, Corporate labour in Asia

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Professor Izhar ul Haq

Director of Research

American University in the Emirates (AUE)

Dubai International Academic City, Dubai, UAE

• Over 22 years of experience in teaching, research and social services
• Specializes in Computational models for optimization and stochastic processes
• Held several top academic and administrative positions in universities in the UK, Canada, UAE and Pakistan
• President, SZABIST (2009 – 2011), Pakistan
• SZABIST, New York Institute of Technology, Abu Dhabi, Ajman University of Science and Technology (AUST)
• Head of Technosphere and Associate Professor, Ajman University of Science and Technology (AUST), (2001 – 2007), Abu Dhabi
• Head of Corporate training and SME in telecommunication (1998 – 2001) Ottawa, Canada
• Director, BiTA Canada (1995 – 1997) Toronto, Canada
• Assistant Professor, Etisalat, Sharjah, UAE
• Research Associate/Lecturer, University of London (1991 – 1993), United Kingdom
• Established various research centers – launched the Technology Incubation Center at American University in the Emirates to encourage, promote and support initiatives in social and technology entrepreneurship
• Mostly worked on the following: Accreditation; Applied Research; New program development;
• Won several awards for community services (OneDirham – a charity organization to provide free education for the underprivileged); research award (Sheikh Khalifa Funds in RFID)
• Passionate about advocating the OneCoin Initiative dedicated to providing education for the underprivileged children around the world; OneCoin initiative is to solve the United Nation Millennium Goal 2, as it leverages on technology and social media to tackle the UNMGs; it involves radically new concept of engaging masses and millennium leaders to provide the framework to accomplish the task
• Proposing the launch of a Global MicroCharity Day, dedicated to the poor, suffering and hungry children around the world

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Professor Ruth Hayhoe

Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto, Canada

• Appointed to serve on the international advisory board of the University of Macao (most recently)
• Director, Hong Kong Institute of Education (1997-2002)
• Associate Dean for Graduate Studies (1996-1997)
• Visiting Professor at Nagoya University, Japan (1996 for six months under a Japan Foundation Fellowship)
• Chair of the Higher Education Group at OISE (1993-1995)
• First Secretary for Culture and Education at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing (1989-1991)
• Academic career at OISE (since 1986)
• Postdoctoral work at OISE (1984-1986)
• Lecturing at the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education in London (1983)
• Undergraduate teaching at Fudan University in Shanghai (1980-82)
• Professional career began as a secondary school teacher in Hong Kong (1967-1978)
• Exposure to East Asia, and especially Hong Kong and China, has given her a lifelong fascination with Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions, and a desire to bridge the contrasting educational and philosophical worlds of East Asia and North America
• Has had a particular interest in the “Dialogue among Civilizations” and has organized a number of large-scale conferences relating to this
• Trustee for the historic New York-based United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (2000-2010), and Secretary (2003-2010) – actively involved in an Asianization process that resulted in all of the Board’s Programs and the President’s office being moved from New York to Hong Kong under the leadership of the first Asian Chairman of the Board
• Research has mainly related to Chinese higher education and educational relations between East Asia and the West – has been interested in the ways in which cultural values and epistemologies from Eastern civilizations may provide a resource for new thinking in global higher education development
• Research interests: the intersection between Asian ways of knowing and women’s ways of knowing, and questions of gender in cross-cultural leadership, topics stimulated by her personal experience of institutional leadership in an Asian context
• Completed a study of the lives and ideas of eleven influential Chinese educators in 2005, developing a set of Portraits which illustrate the continuing value of the Confucian educational heritage. Obtained two major grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) in 2011 and 2006
• Made Honorary Fellow, University of London Institute of Education (1998)
• Awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government (2002)
• Awarded Commandeur dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques by the Government of France (2002)
• Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Education by the Hong Kong Institute of Education (2002)
• Appointed as Zhijiang Honorary Chair Professor in Education at the East China Normal University in Shanghai (2002)
• Holds an advisory professor title at more than ten other universities in different regions of China
• Awarded a Lifetime Contribution Award by the Higher Education Special Interest Group of the Comparative and International Education Society of the USA (CIES) – 2009
• Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the CIES, at the Society’s Annual Meeting in Montreal (May, 2011)

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Prof. Dr. Badar Alam Iqbal

Adjunct Professor

Officiating Vice-Chancellor, A.M.U.Aligarh, India

• Former Dean; Faculty of Commerce; A.M.U.Aligarh; India
• Former Member of University Court, Executive Council and Academic Council; Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
• Adjunct Professor, Monarch Business School; Monarch University; Zug; Switzerland.
• DAAD Visiting Fellow (German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany; Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel, Germany; South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, Germany)
• Visiting Fellow ( Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, Japan; Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Visiting Professor (Ford Foundation, East-West Center, Hawaii, USA; University of Claflin, USA; International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa; KEMAP, Almaty, Kazakhstan; University of Rennes1, France; American Central University, Laramie (Wyoming), USA; University of Agriculture, Business & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Guest Editor; Transnational Corporations Review; Ottawa; Canada.
• Special Advisor; Transnational Corporations Review; Ottawa; Canada.
• Chief Associate Editor-in-Chief; International Journal of Management and Innovation; Taiwan
• Member Advisory Board, Africa and Brazilian Studies;, A.M.U. Aligarh, India
• Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Arts and Social Sciences; Nigeria.
• Member Editorial Board; International Business, Research, Teaching and Practice The Journal of AIB; Rollins, USA
• Patron; AJBMR; Sohar University; Oman.
• Key Note Addresses: 4th Business Leader Conclave, organized by SAARCC Chamber of Commerce, Katmandu, Nepal, October 20-23, 2011; 4th International Applied Business Research Conference, organized by International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. 28th-29 November 2011; International Conference on Knowledge Management and Resource Sharing 2012, organized by WCAS and BIT, Muscat, Oman, 27-28 February 2012; 3rd International Conference on E-Business and E-Government 2012, Shanghai, China, May 11-13, 2012; 1st Networking Conference of Alumni, organized by DAAD and Humboldt Foundation Germany March 29-30 2012.
• Induction into Hall of Fame for Distinguished Accomplishments in Commerce and Management; American Bibliographical Institute; USA

Professor Zafar Iqbal

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences – FAST,

Pakistan

• Worked for several years in the field of Investment Management in some of the top financial institutions in the Middle East and Australia
• His last professional assignment was with the South Australian Government Financing Authority
• His expertise and areas of research interest lie in Portfolio Management, Asset and Liability Management, Islamic Finance, Distributive Justice and Public Finance, and Financial Markets (his doctoral thesis is on Islamic Perspective on Public Finance)
• His publications have appeared in the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Review of Islamic Economics and the International Journal of Islamic Financial Services. He also is the author of Justice: Islamic and Western Perspectives, Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 2007 and joint author (with Professor Mervyn K. Lewis) of An Islamic Perspective on Governance, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (forthcoming)

Professor Dima Jamali

Professor and Chair of the Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Track

Suliman S. Olayan School of Business

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

• Research / teaching revolve primarily around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Senior Lecturer University of Southampton Hampshire, United Kingdom ( 2007-2008)
• Researcher University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, United Kingdom (1997- 2001)
• Research Associate (Full-time), Consulting Psychologists Press California, United States (1994 -1996)
• Expert Consultant for the on Social Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility, Lebanon, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) (2009 – 2009)
• Injaz through OSB Bicharaf Initiative. Cultural Adaptation of Junior Achievement Business Ethics Guide for Volunteers and Teachers. Beirut, Lebanon (2009)
• Leadership Dialogue around Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Social Competitiveness, core steering committee, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2009 – 2009)
• Tamkeen in partnership with the Saudi Government – CSR Guide for the Arab Region, Lebanon (2011)
• The United Nations Development Program and AUB – Beirut, Lebanon.
• Worked for 1-month on compiling best practice policy notes on sustainable livelihoods in Dry (2004)
• The United Nations Development Program and AUB/ IBSAR, Beirut, Lebanon – Designing a Biosafety Policy Framework for Lebanon (2004 -2005)
• Ministry of Economy – Beirut, Lebanon (2003 -2003)
• Lebanese Auto Association, Beirut, Lebanon (2002 -2002)
• Ministry of Culture. Beirut, Lebanon (2002-2002)

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Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala

Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras

Leads, Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT), IIT, Madras

Chair, Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI), IIT Madras

Chair, Mobile Payment Forum of India (MPFI)

Member of Prime Minister’s Scientific Advisory Committee

• Research Interests: Technologies for Rural Areas; Telecommunications and Wireless Systems
• Director in the Board of TTML, Polaris, 3i Infotech, Sasken, Tejas, Tata Communications and Exicom
• Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT), led by him, works with industry in the development of technologies relevant to India; it has incubated over 35 companies in the last twenty years
• Assistant Professor, Washington State University (1979-1981)
• Fellow of World Wireless Research Forum
• Fellow of IEEE
• Fellow of Indian academies including INAE, IAS, INSA and NAS
• Awarded Top Innovator of Top 11 Innovators Challenge (2011)
• Awarded Dronacharya by TiE (2011)
• Awarded Honorary Doctorate by University of Maine (USA, 2010)
• Awarded JC Bose Fellowship by DST, Government of India (2010)
• Awarded “Bharat Asmita Vigyaan –Tantragyaan Shresththa Award” for the best use of Science & Technology through Innovation (2010)
• Awarded Bernard Low Humanitarian Award (2009)
• Awarded Honorary Doctorate by the Institute of Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden, 2008)
• Awarded Honorary Doctorate by the University of Maine (USA, 2010)
• Awarded IBM Innovation and Leadership Forum Award by IBM (2006)
• Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Award by INSA (2006)
• Awarded Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation Award for Science & Technology (2004)
• Awarded H. K. Firodia for ‘Excellence in Science & Technology’ (2002)
• Awarded Padma Shri Award (2002)
• Awarded Millennium Medal at Indian Science Congress (2000)
• Awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (1998)
• Awarded Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award (1997)

Professor Yamuna Kachru

Professor Emerita

Department of Linguistics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Taught at Ranchi Women?s College, Ranchi, India briefly (1956-58)
• Between 1966-58 she attended various linguistic institutes held at Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Pune and other locations in India under the auspices of the Linguistic Society of India, Rockefeller Foundation and Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute,
• Written a number of books and over fifty research papers on various aspects of Hindi grammatical structure; among these are: An Introduction to Hindi Syntax (University of Illinois, Department of Linguistics, 1966), hindii ruppantara Naatmak vyaakaraN ke kuch prakaraN (Topics in a Transformational Grammar of Hindi, Central Institute of Hindi, Agra, 1974), Aspects of Hindi Syntax (Manohar, 1980), hindii kaa samsaamayik vyaakaraN (A Contemporary Grammar of Hindi, Macmillan Co. of India, 1980)
• Done pioneering research on discourse on Hindi
• Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies in India in1967-68, when she organized the first international conference on Hindi linguistics together with Dr. Braj Kachru
• Active in teaching Hindi to speakers of other languages, especially, English; work in this area is reflected in Intermediate Hindi (maadhyamik hindii, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1983); gone through many reprints
• Professor Kachru herself has conducted typological research on Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Kashmiri and other Indian languages
• More than forty scholars have completed their Ph.D. under the direction of Professor Kachru.
• Lectured on linguistic topics related to Hindi at national and international conferences in the USA and India and many other countries, e.g., Australia, Belgium, England, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore. She has also worked on Indian English, and English as used in Asian, African, and other countries around the world
• Member of the Editorial Board of World Englishes (journal, published by Blackwell, Oxford) and Asian Englishes Today? book series (Hong Kong University Press), and the Executive Committee of the International Association for World Englishes

Professor Alan Kantrow

Professor of Management

Director of the SKOLKOVO Infrastructure Research Center (SIRC)

Moscow School of Management, Russia

• Recognized worldwide as a leading scholar with 30 years; experience in the area of strategy, innovation, organizational design, E-learning and technology networks, and infrastructure development in emerging markets
• Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Sloan School of Management
• Prior to joining SKOLKOVO, a Senior Partner and Chief Knowledge Officer at Monitor Group, as well as the Dean of Faculty of Monitor University; board member of the firm’s eLearning and technology expert network business units
• Led a wide range of advisory projects for tertiary education institutions in both the developed and the developing worlds and helped oversee numerous projects in support of non-profit organizations pioneering new approaches to important social issues
• Served as Senior Partner, Board member and Chief Knowledge Officer for Monitor Group
• Before joining the Monitor Group in 1995, was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 8 years (based first in New York, then London, and then Tokyo) the editor of The McKinsey Quarterly and the Director of Communications, Europe and Asia-Pacific
• Before McKinsey, he was the senior editor of Harvard Business Review and also held a research appointment on the faculty of Harvard Business School
• For many years, a member of the Board of Trustees of Poly Prep Country Day School in New York, where he chaired both the Long-Range Planning and the Education Committees
• Member of the Harvard Graduate School Alumni Association Council and of the Editorial Advisory Boards of both Strategy & Leadership and the Sloan Management Review
• Alan led a wide range of advisory projects for tertiary education institutions and helped oversee numerous projects in support of non-profit organizations pioneering new approaches to important social issues.
• Author of several books and numerous articles; published a number of articles in the international professional journals

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Professor Asha Singh Kanwar

President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning (COL)

Canada

• Consultant in open and distance learning, UNESCO’s Regional Office for Education in Africa (BREDA), Dakar, Senegal: To promote and co-ordinate open and distance learning (ODL) in Sub-Saharan Africa and she was instrumental in placing ODL at the centre of ministerial deliberations and the agenda for the development of education in Africa. The West African initiative led to the establishment of an ODL Resource Centre at BREDA and later to the development of a regional Centre of Expertise at the National Open University of Nigeria
• Vice President, COL (April 2006), additionally Programme Director (April 2007), specifically responsible for stakeholder engagement and programme direction
• Education Specialist, Higher Education, Commonwealth of Learning (March 2003), with the major responsibility of working with Commonwealth governments and organisations in policy and systems development, within the context of open and distance learning (ODL)
• Pro-Vice Chancellor, IGNOU, in 1999
• Director, School of Humanities, IGNOU, in 1996
• Appointed as Professor (1992), School of Humanities, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
• Reader, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), in 1988
• One of the world’s leading advocates for learning for development
• Over 30 years of experience in teaching, research and administration
• Has several books, research papers and articles to her credit
• Made significant contributions to gender studies, especially the impact of distance education on the lives of Asian women; studies have established that better educational opportunities and access to new technologies have made substantial differences to the attitudes, values and concerns of Asian women
• Recipient of several awards and fellowships; experience of having studied and worked in different contexts, both developing and developed
• Fulbright Fellow for post-doctoral research at Iowa State University, where she was later invited to teach
• Visiting Fellow, University of Leiden,
• Visiting Fellow, University of Toronto
• Visiting Fellow, the Open University of Hong Kong

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Professor Dip Kapoor

Professor of International Education

Educational Policy Studies

University of Alberta, Canada

Voluntary Research Associate, Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), India

(President/founding member)

• Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education (2006-2008), Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta
• International Development Education (2003-2006), Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Montreal
• Adjunct Associate Professor & Instructor (1996-2002), Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton
• Founder/current President, HELP Society, an Edmonton-based voluntary international development organization with initiatives in India
• Advisory/ Editorial Board Member, Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements (on-line/open access)
• Editorial Board member, Journal of International Education, University of Tennessee, USA
• Editorial Board member, Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, Guild of Independent Scholars (USA) (on-line/open-access journal)
• Book Reviews Editor, Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (on-line/open access journal)
• Research Associate, Center for Research and Development Solidarity, Orissa, India
• Research Interests: Subalterity, education and the politics of domination and resistance in the post colony; Critical studies in international development/globalization and education; Anti/critical colonial perspectives/theory in education; Adult/Popular education, social movements, NGOs and social action; Critical global education (colonialism, capitalism and global problems/responses); Participatory/critical-qualitative research
• Edited Collections – Books and Journals: Globalization, culture and education in South Asia: Critical excursions, Palgrave Macmillan (2012); Critical perspectives on neoliberal globalization, development and education in Africa and Asia, Sense Publishers (2011); Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on development, education, and culture, Palgrave Macmillan (2010); Globalization, development and education in Africa and Asia/Pacific: Critical perspectives, Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences (2010); Learning from the ground up: Global perspectives on social movements and knowledge production, Palgrave Macmillan (2010); Education, participatory action research and social change: International Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan (2009); Education, decolonization and development: Perspectives from Asia, Africa and the Americas, Sense Publishers (2009); Global perspectives on adult education, Palgrave Macmillan (2008); International Perspectives on Education and Decolonization, International Education (2007)

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Professor Nicos Komninos

Professor of Urban Development and Innovation Policy, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Founder & Director, Urban and Regional Innovation (URENIO) Research

• Member, Committee for the design of regional innovation poles in Greece, Board of the ‘Regional Innovation Pole of Central Macedonia’ & Board of ‘Innovation Zone of Thessaloniki’
• Associate Editor, “International Journal of the Knowledge Economy”
• Associate Editor, “European Journal of Innovation Management”,
• Associate Editor, “Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship”
• Research Interests: Innovation Ecosystems & Intelligent Cities (virtual innovation environments, intelligent clusters and technology parks, living labs, smart ecosystems and future Internet)

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Professor Abdul Malek Abdul Karim

Dean, Postgraduate Studies and Research

UUM College of Arts and Sciences

Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia

• Associate Professor, Department of Educational Technology, Ajman University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates (2004 – 2006)
• Deputy Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies), Faculty of Cognitive Sciences & Education, UUM (2006)
• Director, University Teaching Learning Centre (UTLC), UUM (2001-2004)
• Deputy Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies), Faculty of Cognitive Sciences & Education, UUM (1999-2000)
• Areas of Expertise: Instructional Technology; E-learning; Multimedia in Education; Computer based instruction; Teacher Education
• Consultancy Projects: Deputy Chairman, Malaysian Educators Selection Inventory (MEdSI) Panels (Ministry of Higher Education, 2006-2008); An evaluation of information on operation and management of the school division, Ministry of Education (Northern University of Malaysia, July 2004)
• Awarded finalist of the Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards (APICTA) 2003 for LearningCare Learning Management System (LMS); Award Winner at the Research and Development Exposition 2003, PWTC for LearningCare Learning Management System (LMS)

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Professor Azhari Abdul Karim

Director, Centre for Policy Research and International Studies (CenPRIS)

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia

 

Professor Ora Wai-yu Kwo

Faculty of Education,

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

• Research interests stem from professional experiences in teacher education, leading to work on critical discourse for professional learning, empowerment and leadership, narrative inquiry, building of learning communities, values embedded in mainstream schooling, and private supplementary tutoring
• Teaching Areas: English Language teaching; Professional studies; Teacher education and professional development
• Member of International Jury, UNESCO-Hamdan Prize for Outstanding Performance in Enhancing Teahcer Effectiveness (2011-2012)
• Comparative Education Research Centre, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
• Lifelong Honorary Member, International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET)
• International Research Associate, Centre for Study of Teacher Education, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Honorary Professor, Zhejiang Normal University, China (2009-2011)
• Honorary Professor, Hangzhou Normal University, China (2001-2009)
• Member, International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching
• Honorary Advisor, Regeneration Society of Hong Kong
• Chairperson, Organising Committee, International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET) Global Assembly 2004
• Member, Award for Teaching Excellence Sub-Committee of the Quality Education Fund (2003-2005)
• Member, Promotion and Monitoring Sub-Committee of the Quality Education Fund (2000-2003)
• Member, Academic Advisory Committee on Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Centre for the Advancement of University of Teaching, The University of Hong Kong (1998-2000)
• External Member, Advisory Peer Group on a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Primary), The Open University of Hong Kong (999-2000)
• Elected Member, Advisory Management Committee of Hong Kong Teachers’ Centre (1997-2000)
• Advisor, ‘School-based English curriculum development for the enhancement of learning skills and language proficiency of Secondary 1 entrants in a CMI school’ (April-August 1998)
• External Member, Advisory Committee on Primary Teacher Education of School of Foundations in Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education (1998-2005)
• Awards: KC Wong Foundation Visiting Scholar, Beijing Normal University, China (2006); Universitas 21 Fellowship at the University of British Columbia, Canada (1999); University Teaching Fellow of The University of Hong Kong (1997); British Council Hornby Trust Award (1978)

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Professor Kenneth Leithwood

Theory and Policy Studies in Education

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto, Canada

• Research interests: leadership, policy and school improvement; and has widely published on these topics.
• These interests have been pursued through more focused inquiries about alternative conceptions of leadership, the cognitive and emotional processes of leaders, leadership development, organizational learning and leadership for both local and large-scale school reform
• His most recent studies concern leadership in both highly accountable policy contexts and in schools with diverse student populations; through several large-scale, longitudinal studies underway, he is presently trying to better understand the complex practices and processes through which successful leaders improve teaching and learning in their schools
• Senior editor of both the first and second International Handbooks on Educational Leadership and Administration (Kluwer Publishers, 1996, 2003).
• His most recent books include Distributed leadership: The state-of-the-science (2008); Leadership With Teachers’ Emotions In Mind (2008); Making Schools Smarter (3rd edition, 2006); and Teaching for Deep Understanding (2006)
• Recent recipient of the University of Toronto’s Impact on Public Policy award
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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Professor Romie Frederick Littrell

Associate Professor of International Business

Department of International Business,

Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

• Fellow of the Academy of Intercultural Research
• His thesis (“Perceptions of Desirable Leadership Behaviours of Multi-Cultural Managers by Indigenous Chinese Managers and Supervisors”) was published as a special issue: “Desirable leadership behaviours of multi-cultural managers in China” by The Journal of Management Development in 2002; selected as outstanding article of the year for the journal; and subsequently published as a book and e-book by the Emerald Library
• Work in Tertiary Education, USA, China, Switzerland, and Germany: Professor of International Marketing & Management (12 years); teaching courses in leadership, managing cultural differences, introduction to management, international management, marketing, international marketing, introduction to finance in various countries
• Visiting Professor: Leadership, organisational behaviour, marketing, business and culture, computer programming, systems analysis, introduction to business, business communications, hotel management, in the USA, China, Switzerland India, and Turkey
• Lecturer (2 years): statistics, hospitality management
• Industry Experience: 30 years’ experience in sales and management in the IT industry in the Americas and Europe
• Fellowship & Membership: International Academy of Intercultural Research; Academy of Management; Academy of International Business; and International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychlogy
• Teaching Areas: Leadership in International Business; International Business Management
• Research areas: International Management; International Leadership; Business & Culture
• International Human Resource Management
• Current Research Projects: Currently facilitator of a global project studying preferred leader behaviour and individual values across cultures, related to enhancing international business transactions

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Professor Shantha Liyanage

Faculty of Business

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Director of SERIM Australia Pty Ltd

Adjunct Professor, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Australia

• Associate Professor, Business School, University of Auckland, New Zealand (2001-2007), where he worked closely with biotechnology commercialisation with leading biotechnology groups
• Director of Technology Management Centre (TMC), The University of Queensland (1996-2001), where he developed on-line web-based masters program in technology and innovation management
• He was responsible for the development of web-based distant learning program in technology management at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Queensland
• Had several visiting professor appointments, including the International Business School, Nihon University Japan
• Worked as a consultant to many international development assistance agencies, e.g. the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and Governments in Asia and Pacific
• Founder member and the Program Manager of the UNESCO based Science and Technology Policy Asian Network (STEPAN)
• He has contributed to the economic and social development of many nations through his contribution to the management of technological innovation; has contributed to theories of innovation, knowledge and intellectual capital and international business strategies and leadership
• In addition to his academic credentials, Shantha has extensive industry experience in learning and development field; his recent book (published by Praeger, Greenwood Publishers, USA) features innovation management at ATLAS project in CERN, Airbus and Stem Cell research
• Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Learning and Change, UK
• He is an active researcher; his areas of expertise include: Innovation audit, knowledge management, intellectual property management, project evaluation, organisational innovation, and management of research and development

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Professor Jacky Lumby

Professor in Education

Head of the School of Education

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

• Main interests: Educational leadership and management, particularly focused on how some learners and staff may be excluded; this has led her to engage with issues of diversity, gender and power. She is concerned to explore how leaders can be supported to lead people, systems and processes which offer success to all learners and staff in the context of living a life they value
• Work encompasses a range of perspectives, including critical theory and comparative and international perspectives; she is interested in challenging the assumption of the appropriateness of Western-derived concepts, theories and suggested practice in different cultures and in an increasingly diverse UK culture
• Researched and published widely on the leadership and management of schools and colleges in the UK, Ireland, China, Hong Kong and South Africa
• Most recent book (with Professor Fenwick English) explores the use of metaphors in the language of education and its links to the ways we think about and develop education; she has also published books on diversity and leadership and on 14-19 education
• Worked in a Training and Enterprise Council with responsibility for the development of managers in both business and education, managing a network which allowed the cross-fertilisation of skills and experience from education into business and vice versa
• Co-editor of two international handbooks on leader preparation and development
• Research Advisory Panel, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
• Expert Group member, European Policy Network on School Leadership
• Expert Group member, Diversity in HE Leadership, funded by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
• Consultant, The Cyprus Council of Educational Evaluation Accreditation
• Associate Editor, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership (EMAL)
• Member of the British Education Leadership and Management Society (BELMAS)
• Plenum member of the US University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)
• Member, British Educational Research Association (BERA)
• Advisor, Equality Authority of Ireland

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Professor Dr. Mathew J. Manimala

Professor and Chair, , Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management Area

Indian Institute of Management, India

• FPM (Fellow in Management), IIM India (1983-1988)
• Senior Member of Faculty, Human Resource Area, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India (1995-2001)
• Chairman Human Resource Area, Administrative Staff College of India, India (1998-2001)
• Lecturer, School of Management Studies, University of Cochin, India (1978-1988)
• Assistant Professor, and Acting Head of the Department of Business Administration, Bhopal School of Social Sciences, India (1977 -1978)
• Visiting Fellow at the Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK, under the EFMD sponsored Euro-India Cooperation and Exchange Programme (1990-1991)
• Visiting Fellow at the University of Calgary, Canada (January- April 1999)
• Founder-President, Society of Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE)
• Founder-Member, International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF)
• Member, Academy of Management
• Member, National HRD Network
• Member, All India Association for Educational Technology
• Member, Indian Society for Training and Development
• Senior Enterprise Fellow, School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex, UK
• Editor, South Asian Journal of Management (Quarterly journal published by AMDISA, the Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia)
• Member, International Advisory Council of Global Trust Center, Malmo, Sweden
• Member, Editorial Board, Springer Book Series on Innovation, Technology and Knowledge Management
• Member, Editorial Board, Creativity and Innovation Management (Quarterly journal published by Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, (International Journal published by Springer)
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (Published by IGI Global)
• Awarded The Academy of Management (USA) Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Research in the Field of New Enterprise Development (1988-89); IFCI Award for Outstanding Thesis Proposal (instituted at IIMA), for the year 1986-87
• Research Areas: Organisational Behaviour; Small and Medium Enterprises; Entrepreneurship; Organisational Restructuring
• Recent Consulting: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research project, a multi-country research initiative

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Professor R. A. Mashelkar, India

Fellow of Royal Society (FRS)

CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow National Chemical Laboratory National Research Professor, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

President, Global Research Alliance (network of publicly funded R&D institutes from Asia-Pacific, Europe and USA)

• Board of Directors of several reputed companies, including the Scientific Advisory Board of the Microsoft
• Chairman of India’s National Innovation Foundation, Reliance Innovation Council, Thermax Innovation Council and Marico Innovation Foundation
• Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for over eleven years
• President (former), Indian National Science Academy
• President (former), Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK)
• Member (former), Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
• Chairman (former), Standing Committee on Information Technology of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),
• Member (former), International Intellectual Property Rights Commission of UK Government
• Vice Chairman (former), Commission in Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH) set up by World Health Organization (WHO)

Sergio G. Matviuk

Executive Director of Global Affairs

Regent University,USA

• Possess more than 20 years of successful international administrative and leadership experience as an education executive of nonprofits, management and educational organizations
• Designed and led several successful mega education projects worldwide and developed an extensive international institutional and professional network
• Led educational programs in 14 different countries, which has allowed him to gain extensive international and cross-cultural experience
• international consultant, who has served organizations and institutions, such as: Texas Instruments, Lucent Technologies, Fleet Bank, The Paraguayan-American Chamber of Commerce (Paraguay), The Supreme Court of Justice of Cordoba (Argentina), The First Vice-Presidency of Peru and several prestigious universities in the areas of leadership development, international development, cross-cultural leadership and global programs development
• Member of prestigious international organizations, such as the International Leadership Association, the Latin American Council of Administration Schools, the British Academy of Management, the Business Association of Latin American Studies

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Professor Muhammad Memon

Director, Institute for Educational Development

Aga Khan University, Pakistan

Professor Pak Tee Ng

Associate Professor and Head, Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group

Associate Dean, Leadership Learning, Office of Graduate Studies and Professional Learning

National Institute of Education

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Dr. Phuong-Mai Nguyen

Interculturalist and Researcher

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

• Dr Phuong-Mai Nguyen started her career as a journalist in Viet Nam and has lived, worked, and traveled to 80 different countries. She is a freelancer, writing for many newspapers in the world
• She currently teaches Intercultural Communication and Management at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
• Her research interests include: Intercultural studies in business and education; Cooperative Learning; Instructional Design; Islam; and Asian studies
• Her agency www.CultureMove.com delivers consultancy and training in international negotiation and management
• Her latest project is a field research that sees her tracing the development path of Islam, from where it began, city by city, westwards to Africa and eastwards to Asia. More of the project here

Professor Stella M. Nkomo

Professor, Department of Human Resource Management

Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

University of Pretoria, South Africa

• Previous appointment: Bateman Professor of Business Leadership at the University of South Africa’s Graduate School of Business Leadership
• Former Scholar-in-Residence at Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Harvard University
• Visiting Scholar at the Tuck Business School of Dartmouth College (USA)
• Her internationally recognized work on race and gender and managing diversity appears in numerous journals and edited volumes
• She is co-author with Prof Ella L. J. Bell of the critically acclaimed Harvard Business School Press book, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity
• She is listed in the International Who’s Who in the Management Sciences for her pioneering research on race and gender in organizations

Professor Henning Salling Olesen

(Former) Department of Psychology and Educational Studies

Roskilde University, Denmark

• World-famous lifelong education expert
• Research Interests: Socialisation, learning and experience; Adult education and adult learning; Subjective meaning of work and learning in relation to working life; Life history and biographical approaches to learning and education; Integrating psychodynamic and societal approaches to social processes; Professional education and learning in professions; Research into health-related learning; Sociology of education and sociology of knowledge; Lifelong learning and educational policy, cross-cultural comparison
• Chair, ESREA (European Society for Research in the Education of Adults)
• Vice President of Roskilde University (former)
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, the Journal of Workplace Learning

Professor Narcisa Paredes-Canilao

Professor

Associate Professor of Philosophy

College of Social Sciences

University of the Philippines Baguio, Philippines

• She teaches philosophy (Epistemology, Philosophy of Language) and interdisciplinary social
• science courses (Epistemological Issues in the Social Sciences, and Historical and Philosophical Development of the Social Sciences)
• Her research, published works and advocacy are on women and gender, and indigenous knowledge and discourses

Professor Martin Parker

Professor of Management

University of Leicester, UK

• Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Warwick (2011-2012)
• Professor of Organisation and Culture, School of Management, University of Leicester (2003 – 2010)
• Director of Research and Chair of the Faculty Research Committee, University of Leicester
• Worked previously at Staffordshire and Keele universities
• Editor-in-Chief of journal, Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society
• Has worked on a variety of topics, including social and organisational theory, market managerialism and higher education, culture and popular culture, utopianism, conspiracy theory, the Apollo space programme, business ethics, critical management studies and alternative organisations
• Last book (2011), on Robin Hood, pirates and outlaws was Alternative Business (Routledge)
• Currently, working on a Handbook of Alternative Organizations (to be published by Routledge)

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Professor Wilfred J. Perera

Assistant Director General

Faculty of Education Leadership Development and Teacher Education

National Institute of Education, Sri Lanka

Professor Rajesh K. Pillania

Strategic Management

Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India (Visiting Fellow-Harvard, Cambridge, Boston, MA

Visiting Professor, The COPPEAD Graduate School of Business, Federal University of Rio de Janerio)

• He is a prolific researcher and writer with many papers in international journals and conferences; he combines academic insights with real world practice
• His current areas of interest and expertise are Global Strategy, Innovations, Strategy and Emerging Markets, particularly India
• He is on advisory board of many international research journals, professional bodies and conferences consisting of leading international academicians, policy makers and industry leaders
• Offered consultancy and conducted training for various corporations (SPMCIL, CSIR etc) and government departments (Department of Science & Technology, Tourism Ministry etc)
• His articles, views appear in newspapers /magazines in Europe, US and Asia
• He has been invited by international conferences (ISMOT, MSKE), professional forums (IASK, Global Forum etc), industry associations (FICCI,CII etc), research centers (IPM, Beijing ; Chinese Academy of Sciences etc) and universities (UNU, Harvard, Tsinghua, Northumbria etc) as an expert speaker
• He acts as a mentor/supervisor for doctoral students in many universities including Oxford, U.K.
• His academic experience includes the Business School, Panjab University (Chandigarh, India); R. H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (Maryland, USA); Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK); The COPPEAD (Rio, Brasil) etc.
• He is involved in research/ teaching at number of leading universities across the world including Harvard (Boston, USA)
• He is MIT Sloan industry studies affiliate and a member of Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society, USA

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Professor Atta-ur-Rahman

Fellow of Royal Society (FRS)

NI, HI, SI, TI, UNESCO Science Laureate

(Pakistan)

• Patron of International Centre of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Karachi University
• President, Network of Academies of Sciences of Islamic Countries (NASIC)
• Vice-President (Central & South Asia), Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) Council
• Coordinator General, Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH), Pakistan
• Asia’s representative on Commonwealth of Learning’s (COL) Board of Governors
• Foreign Fellow, Korean Academy of Sciences
• Federal Minister (former), Science and Technology (14th March, 2000 – 20th November, 2002)
• Chairperson (former), Pakistan Higher Education Commission & Federal Minister of Education (former)

Professor Sujatha Ramdorai

Canada Research Chair,

Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Mathematics,

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India

• PhD in Mathematics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay University (1992)
• Voluntary retirement from TIFR in January 2012
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2004)
• ICTP Ramanujan Award (2006)
• Member of the National Knowledge Commission (2007-2009)
• Member, National Innovation Council, India
• Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India

Professor Fazal Rizvi

Professor Emeritus Education Policy, Organization and Leadership

Educational Policy Studies

College of Education

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

• Research interests: Global Studies in Education; Comparative and international education; Internationalization of Higher education; Cultural globalization and education policy; Postcolonial theories of identity, representation and education; Global inequalities and educational policy; and
• International student mobility (more recent: working on Indian higher education and the ways in which it is engaging with the challenges of globalization and the knowledge economy)
• Adjunct Professor, Honorary, Deakin University (2002-2005)
• Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
• Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne Australia (2008-2013)
• Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) and Professor, Education, RMIT University, Australia (1999-2001)
• Professor, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia (1996-2000)
• Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia (1991-1996)
• Senior Lecturer, Education, Deakin University, Australia (1984-1991)
• Visiting Appointments, Universities of Warwick and London (1989-19890
• Visiting Appointment, University of Wisconsin (1988-1988)
• • Senior Research Fellow, Bureau of Educational Research (2007-2008)
• • Distinguished Senior Scholar, College of Education (2007-2008)
• • International Panel Member, RAE 2008 (United Kingdom), Research Assessment Exercise 2008 (UK), 2006-2008
• Research Associa;te, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004-2005)
• Director, Monash University (1998-2000)
• Series Editor, Studies in Education, Allen & Unwin Publishing, Allen & Unwin (1996-2000)
• Director, Centre for Malaysian Studies, Monash University (1996-1997)
• President, Australian Association for Research in Education (1996-)
• Director, Australian Foundation for Culture and the Humanities (1995-1998)
• Editor, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (1993-2000)
• Member, Australian Council for the Arts (1992-1995)

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Mr. Saurabh Srivastava

Among India’s leading IT entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists 

• Founded and chaired IIS Infotech, which was ranked amongst the top 20 Indian software companies within 4 years of inception and was listed, post-merger, as Xansa on the London stock exchange, with revenues of around US $ 800 mill till it was acquired by Steria
• Has since founded/invested in over 50 start-up ventures
• Cofounder and past Chairman of NASSCOM, the Indian Software Industry Association as also NASSCOM Foundation, the IT industry’s community service arm
• Also on the National Executive Committees of the two apex industry chambers in India, CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) and FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry)
• Serves/has served on various boards, both private and publicly listed companies in the UK and India
• Chairs the Indian operations of CA Technologies Inc, a $ 4.5 Bill US software MNC
• Founded and chaired India’s first and extremely successful early stage Venture Capital fund in the private sector, Infinity Ventures and also co-founded the Indian Angel Network, India’s first and largest business angel group with over 160 investor members comprising the who’s who of successful Indian entrepreneurs and CEOs
• Chaired the Indian Venture Capital Association for a decade and is Chairman Emeritus of TIE Delhi – TiE is the world’s largest organisation devoted to entrepreneurship with 16,000 members in 54 chapters across 14 countries
• Serves / has served on several government committees / task forces/ boards, such as the Indo EU Round Table, PM’s National Innovation Council, IT Ministry’s Committee on software exports, Planning Commission and SEBI Committees on Venture Capital, National and State VC Funds, Media Lab Asia, Railway Expert Committee, CSIR Tech Ltd(set up by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to commercialise its technologies), Government’s Multimodal Transport Task Force and Task Forces for two of India’s largest states, UP and Bihar
• Serves/has served on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School, London, on the Entrepreneurship / Incubation boards of IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur and on the Advisory boards of Uttarakhand and Himachal Universities
• Awards include ‘Distinguished Alumnus’ from IITK, ‘Honorary Doctorate in Technology’ from the University of Wolverhampton, UK and ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from the IT Industry in India

Professor Andreas Schleicher

Head, Indicators and Analysis Division

Education Directorate, OECD

Honorary Professor, the University of Heidelberg, Germany

Deputy Director for Education and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD’s Secretary-General

• Provides strategic oversight over OECD’s work on the development and utilisation of skills and their social and economic outcomes; this includes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the development and analysis of benchmarks on the performance of education systems (INES)
• Before joining the OECD, he was Director for Analysis at the International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA)
• He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the “Theodor Heuss” prize, awarded in the name of the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany for “exemplary democratic engagement”.
• Holds an honorary Professorship at the University of Heidelberg

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Professor Yusuf Sidani

Convener (Chairperson)

Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship Track

Olayan School of Business

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

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Professor James Taylor AM

Professor Emeritus

Australian Digital Futures Institute,

University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Honorary Professor, China Central Radio and TV University

Honorary Professor, Tianjin Radio TV University (China)

• Research Interests: e-Learning, the future of learning, flexible delivery, distance education technologies
• Member, International Advisory Board of CRIDAL (Centre for Research in Distance and Adult Learning), Hong Kong Open University (1998-present)
• Member, Editorial Board of the ‘Indian Journal of Open Learning’, Indira Gandhi National Open University (1997-Present)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation (2011 – present)
• President, International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) (2002-2005)
• Member, Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee, DEST, Australian Government (2002-2004)
• Higher Education IT Consultative Forum, DEST (1997-2001)
• Higher Education Advisory Group on Education Network Australia (EdNA), DEST, Australian Government (1998-2001)
• Review of Alternative Delivery Modes Committee, National Board of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra, 1993
• Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Learning Services), University of Southern Queensland (2000-2009)
• Professor and Director, Distance Education Centre, University of Southern Queensland (1988-2000)
• Awarded ‘Australian Higher Education Quality Award’ for meritorious service to quality advancement in Australian higher education (2009)
• Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for 25 years of sustained leadership in enhancing the quality of open and distance learning in higher education, both in Australia and internationally
• Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) 2001 Life Membership – presented at the 15th Biennial ODLAA Forum (Sydney, 25 – 27 September 2001
• ICDE Individual Prize of Excellence – awarded for an active role in ICDE (the International Council for Open and Distance Education) and internationally over many years with significant contributions made to research and development in the field of open and distance learning (1999)

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Professor Peter G. Taylor

(Former) Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice

National Institute of Education

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Professor Konai Helu Thaman

Professor of Pacific Education and Culture

School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Law University of the South Pacific, Fiji

UNESCO Chair in Teacher Education and Culture

• Current teaching and research interests are in indigenous education and culturally inclusive teaching, curriculum and research
• Currently involved with other colleagues in documenting Pacific indigenous educational ideas and pedagogies, and developing Pacific frameworks and methodologies for research
• Researched and published in the areas of curriculum development, indigenous knowledge systems, culturally democratic teacher education and sustainable development
• Member of several international organisations including, The Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers and Higher Education Personnel (CEART)
• Fellow of the Asia Pacific Centre for Innovations in Education & Development (APEID)
• Oceanin vice-chair for the IUCN Commission on Education & Communication
• Enjoys writing poetry and 5 collections of her poems have been published

Professor Ethel Agnes P. Valenzuela

Head, Research Studies Unit

Research Specialist

SEAMEO INNOTECH, Philippines

• Director IV of the Commission on Higher Education (1995), where she headed the Offices of Student Services and International Affairs Service
• Chairperson, Education Department of De La Salle-Lipa
• Assistant Professorial Lecturer V position at the Educational Management Department, College of Education, De La Salle University, and Manila
• Has substantial experience in doing policy research on internationalization of higher education, lifelong learning and student financial assistance programs
• Handled four policy research studies of the UNESCO Education Committee
• Appointed as a UNESCO Commissioner in Education in 2004, where she served as Vice-Chairperson and headed EDCOM’s Technical Working Group of the project “Inventory on Lifelong Learning Programs in the Philippines”
• Served as one of the Philippine negotiators for multilateral agreements under APEC, ASEAN, JPEPA and other bilateral agreements on higher education
• Has written and developed Internationalization of Higher Education Model and has written articles on educational innovation brought about by globalization and internationalization
• Member, Board of Directors of the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific (UMAP)
• CHED Technical Panel member on Distance Education
• She served as resource person and expert advisor to some national and international associations and government inter-agency committees such as the APEC Engineer Register Project, the association of hotel, restaurant and tourism educators of the Philippines on matters pertaining to overseas internship, the UMAP Council-Philippines, the Special Committee on Scholarship and the newly established UNESCO Lifelong Learning Center for Sustainable Development.
• Has chaired the Higher Education Group at United States International Visitors Program (IVP-Philippines)
• Sent by the US Department of States to several universities in the United States to study higher education management for the Twenty-first Century
• Holds the Career Executive Service Officer IV rank (CESO IV) in the Philippine Government
• She is a member of various international professional and academic organizations including the Phi Lambda Theta Honor Society of Women Leaders in Education and the Phi Delta Kappa

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Professor Simone Volet

Professor of Educational Psychology

School of Education

Murdoch University, Australia

• Research, grounded in socio-cognitive, sociocultural and situative perspectives on learning, focuses on: the integration of cognitive, metacognitive, motivational and social aspects of learning at university and other adult learning settings; effective collaborative learning in student-led group activities at university; social dynamics of group work; learning and teaching in culturally diverse contexts; social cohesion on multicultural campuses; and the internationalisation of higher education curricula
• Published numerous book chapters and articles in international and national peer-refereed journals and co-edited a book in the EARLI Series Advances in Learning and Instruction, Motivation in Learning contexts: Theoretical advances and methodological implications (Elsevier, 2001)
• Currently serves as a member of several international editorial Boards as well as several international and national scientific research advisory Boards
• President of the Educational, Instructional and School Psychology Division of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), past
• Was the first author of the journal article that received the inaugural “Outstanding Publication Award” of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction

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Professor Daniel A. Wagner

Professor of Education

University of Pennsylvania, USA

UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy

Director, International Literacy Institute (ILI)

Founding Director, Literacy Research Center

Director, National Center on Adult Literacy

Head, Program in International Educational Development (IEDP)

• Visiting Fellow, International Institute of Education Planning, twice (Paris)
• Visiting Professor, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
• Fulbright-Hays Scholar at the University of Paris
• Fellow of the American Psychological Association
• Fellow of the American Anthropological Association
• Has extensive experience in national and international educational issues; has consulted for numerous U.N. and donor agencies as well as with the U.S. government, and has worked in more than a dozen countries around the world
• More than 120 professional publications, including 20 books (translated into a half-dozen languages) across topics of literacy, basic education, child development, applied technology, and research and policy in cultural and international perspectives
• Areas of Expertise: International education and development; Literacy, learning, and cognition in children, youth, and adults; Language acquisition and multi-lingualism; Educational technologies
• Educational psychology
• Research Interests and Current Projects include literacy across the lifespan (children, youth, adults), comparative studies of basic education and literacy, education in developing countries, and appropriate uses of educational technologies
• Current international projects have been in India, South Africa, and Morocco. Most recently, he has completed a major review in the area of learning indicators for use in understanding the quality of education in the developing world

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Professor Allan David Walker

Joseph Lau Chair Professor of International Educational Leadership

Head of Department of Education Policy and Leadership

Director, The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change

Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China

 

• Known internationally for his passion for school leadership, innovative approaches to leader development and the promotion of leader control and accountability for their own professional learning
• Chair Professor of Educational Administration and Policy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (worked for 16 years)
• Worked at Universities in Australia, the United States and Singapore (Nanyang Technological University)
• Made a Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leadership (2010) for his contribution to educational leadership research and development globally, but especially in South and Southeast Asia
• Areas of Expertise: Educational leadership and management; International education; Leader learning and professional development; School improvement and educational change (has been at the forefront of a group of scholars investigating how school leadership is framed and enacted in different contexts and cultures internationally, and using this knowledge to broaden understanding and build leader capacity)
• Won four GRF grants and 20 other competitive research grants
• Research focuses on expanding knowledge of school leadership in Chinese and other Asian societies and disseminating this internationally. He believes research findings from the region have as much to offer the broader field as those produced in Western societies but have for too long been undervalued.
• Has been instrumental in designing and implementing a number of pioneering academic and leader learning programmes for local principals and leaders and also for one of Asia’s top international school systems, widely recognised internationally and have engaged thousands of local, regional and international school leaders, including all beginning principals in Hong Kong since 2002
• The Key Qualities of the Principalship in Hong Kong which he co-wrote is used as the framework for all principal preparation and development programmes
• Acted as a consultant/advisor on large-scale research, numerous other academic projects, and development activities in countries including Australia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Norway, Finland, Vietnam, Malaysia, Netherlands, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia
• Serves on the editorial boards of the top ranked journals in his field and has published over 300 books and articles with international publishers and in the world’s most prestigious academic journals

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Professor Margaret J. Wheatley

Co-founder & President Emerita

The Berkana Institute, USA

• Her work has drawn from many different disciplines: Science, history, literature, systems thinking, organizational behavior, social policy, cosmology and theology
• A consultant and speaker since 1973, and has worked with almost all types of organizations and people and on all continents – ranging from the head of the U.S. Army to twelve year old Girl Scouts, from CEOs to small town ministers; including Fortune 100 corporations, government agencies, healthcare institutions, foundations, public schools, colleges, major church denominations, professional associations, and monasteries
• In the mid-sixties, she spent two years in the Peace Corps in Korea, teaching high school English; on returning to the U.S., she taught junior and senior high school, then became an educational administrator of programs for children and adults who were economically poor and denied traditional educational opportunities
• Served as full-time graduate management faculty at two institutions: Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and The Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
• Served in a formal advisory capacity for leadership programs in England, Croatia, Denmark, Australia and the United States, and through her work in Berkana, with leadership initiatives in India, Senegal, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and Europe
• Co-founder and President emerita of The Berkana Institute (www.berkana.org), a global charitable foundation founded in 1991, which works in partnership with a rich diversity of people around the world who strengthen their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions and environment
• Her newest book, coauthored with Deborah Frieze: Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey Into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. (2011); Perseverance, published in 2010; Co-authored, A Simpler Way (with Myron Kellner-Rogers) in 1996; Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future (2002 and an expanded edition in 2009, in 7 languages); Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time published in 2005, in 3 languages
• Leadership and the New Science was first published in 1992, with new editions in 1999 and 2006 – the book has been translated into 18 languages and won many awards, including “Best Management Book of 1992” in Industry Week, Top Ten Business Books of the 1990s by CIO Magazine, and Top Ten Business books of all time by Xerox Corporation; the video of Leadership and the New Science, produced by CRM films, has also won several film awards
• Her articles appear in a wide range of professional publications and magazines; she also produced a number of videos, CDs on different organizational and leadership topics

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Professor Lee Wing On

Dean, Education Research

Education Research Office

Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Department

National Institute of Education

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Scholarship in the fields of comparative education, citizenship education, and moral and values education, Cultural studies in education, Asian models of education
• Advisor, Character & Citizenship Education (CCE) Curriculum Development Steering Committee, Ministry of Education, Singapore (since November 2011)
• Chairman, National Healthcare Group (NHG), Research Ethics Review Board [Domain-Specific Review Board (DSRB) Domain F], Singapore (since September 2011)
• Co-Chairman, EduLab Evaluation Committee, Ministry of Education, Singapore (since June 2011)
• Interim Head, Centre for Research in Pedagogy & Practice, National Institute of Education, Singapore (since
• January 2011)
• Dean, Education Research, National Institute of Education, NTU, Singapore (since April 2010)
• President, World Council of Comparative Education Societies (since June 2010)
• Chair of Comparative Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education (2008 to April)
• Vice President (Academic) and Deputy to the President, Hong Kong Institute of Education (as VP Academic in May 2007 and Acting President during June to December 2007) (2008 to 2010)
• Director of International Development, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney (2005 to 2007)
• Professor of Education, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney (2005 to 2007)
• Adjunct Professor, Sun Yat Sen (Zhongshan) University (for postgraduate programmes in education) (since July 2005)
• Head, Department of Educational Policy and Administration; concurrently Head, Centre for Citizenship Education (1999 to 2005), The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) (July 2003 to June 2005)
• Founding Director, Comparative Education Research Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong (September 1994 to September 1996)
• Visiting/Honorary Professor for a number of universities in the UK, the USA, HK and Chinese Mainland e.g. Beijing Normal University; University of Hong Kong; University of Sydney; Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Served as a consultant for World Bank and Asian Development Bank projects, and is at present a member of the International Advisory Board of Mongolian Education Alliance; in Hong Kong, he has served on various government committees such as Curriculum Development Council (CDC), Quality Education Fund (QEF), the Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC), Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ), Central Policy Unit (CPU), and Education Commission (EC)
• Published 28 books and over 140 journal articles and book chapters
• Received the Medal of Honour (2003) awarded by the Hong Kong Government; the Bronze Education Award and Education Innovation Award from the Educational Art Research Association and the Educational Development Forum in Beijing; the Hong Kong Soka Gakkai International Award (2010)
• Member on various Editorial Boards, e.g. International Journal of Quantitative Research in Education (IJQRE), Journal of Global Economy: An International Journal; Frontiers of Education in China; Journal of International Education and Leadership (JIEL); The International Journal of Chinese Education (IJCE); The Multicultural Education Review; The Education Journal, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); The Hong Kong Teachers’ Centre (HKTC) Journal; The Open Education Journal; Cambridge Journal of Education; New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies; Compare, UK; Journal of Chinese Moral Education (JCME), UK; International Journal of Citizenship and Teacher Education, UK; Journal of Educational Research (Taiwan and Mainland editions) (since 2004); Hong Kong Teachers’ Centre Journal; Evaluation and Research in Education, (Multilingual Mattes) UK; Pearl River Delta Educational Research Series; Hong Kong Journal of Religious Education
• Executive Editor, Asia Pacific Journal of Education (APJE); Chair, Editorial Board, Journal of Moral Education; Editor, Education Papers (with M. Bray [Editor-in-chief] & S.K. Tse); Associate Editor, New Horizons (The Journal of Education, Hong Kong Teachers’ Association); Corresponding Editor, Panorama: International Journal of Comparative Religious Education and Values, Germany

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Professor Wu Zongjie

Professor of Discourse, Culture and Education

Director of Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies

School of International Studies

Zhejiang University, China

• His work is also associated with the Centre of Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies, and Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage Studies
• His research in education seeks to promote the cross-cultural understanding of language education through combining historical, ethnographic, philosophical, and linguistic approaches to pedagogical discourse
• His commitment to the Chinese heritage studies for cross-cultural interpretation has resulted in fresh and innovative thinking about the way how traditional Chinese culture and knowledge could be properly represented and interpreted in the modern world
• A common thread that runs through his work is the philosophical perspective on the relationships of being (life), knowing and naming (representation) in the context of cultural dialogue between the East and West
• His grass-rooted ethnographic projects on Dongwushan Heritage Village and Shuitingmen Cultural Heritage and Memory have received great attention from academia, local government, and Chinese media
• He has been invited to lecture both in China and across the world.

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