Participants
We were fortunate to have an exciting group of participants who made this conference truly productive and engaging. We hope the conference has furthered an ongoing network of professionals that will engage in international collaboration and cooperation. Our invited participants represented educators, researchers, policy makers and foundation members from Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Iceland, the Netherlands, South Africa and the United Kingdom as well as our neighbors to the north and south of us, Canada and Mexico. We also invited US participants from the National Science Foundation, the Council of Graduate Schools, the National Research Councils of the National Academies and the Ford Foundation.
Australia & New Zealand | Brazil | Canada | China | Europe (Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom) | Japan | Mexico | South Africa | United States
(** Lead Author on Commissioned Paper for each country)
Australia & New Zealand
Dean, Graduate Studies
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Terry Evans **
Associate Dean of Education (Research)
Faculty of Education
Deakin University, Geelong Victoria, Australia
Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Professor of Environmental Science
James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Graham Smith (New Zealand/Canada)
Professor
Aboriginal Studies
Visiting Scholar to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Brazil
Evaluation Director
CAPES-Brazilian Ministry of Education
Professor, Ethics and Political Philosophy
University of San Paulo, San Paulo
Director and President
Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade – IETS, Rio de Janeiro
Associate Professor
Instituto de Bioquímica Médica
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Canada
Dean of Graduate Studies, Professor of Archaeology
Simon Fraser University
Louis Maheu **
Dean of Higher Education
University of Montreal, Montreal
President
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Ottawa
People’s Republic of China
Yingqiu Liu (unable to attend)
Senior Research Fellow & Professor of Economics
Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences
Beijing, Chaoyang District
Europe
Hans Siggaard Jensen (Denmark) **
Chairman of the European Doctoral School on Knowledge and Management
Executive Research Director, Professor
Learning Lab Denmark/The Danish University of Education, Copenhagen
Bernard Hugonnier (France) (unable to attend)
Deputy Director for Education
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Barbara Kehm (Germany) **
Professor for Higher Education Research
Center for Research on Higher Education and Work, Kassell University, Kassell
Hans Jürgen Prömel (Germany)
Professor and Vice President for Research
Humboldt University, Berlin
Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson (Iceland) **
Technical Director/Director, RANNIS – The Icelandic Center for Research, Reykjavik
Former Rector and chairman of the NorFA board
Andreas Frijdal (Italy) **
Head of Academic Service
European University Institute, Florence
J. A. Bartelse (The Netherlands)
Vice Director, The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU)
Morten Levin (Norway)
Professor, Organization and Work Science
Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management,
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Howard Green (UK) **
Chair, UKCGE
UK Council for Graduate Education
Senior Advisor to the Vice Chancellor
Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Japan
Professor and Director
Research Center for University Studies,
University of Tsukuba, Tokyo
Head, Research Cooperation Division II, International Programs
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo
Vice President for Research
Director of Center for Mechanical Science Based on NanoTechnology
Tohoku University, Sendai
Mexico
Centro de Estudios sobre la Universidad (Center for University Studies)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico – UNAM)
Director General Adjunto de Investigación y Normas
Centro Nacional de Evaluación para la Educación Superior (CENEVAL)
Director General
CENEVAL-Centre for the Assessment of Higher Education, Col. San Ángel
South Africa
Ahmed Bawa **
Professor of Physics & Education
Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Previously: Program Officer (Higher Education and Scholarship), The Ford Foundation
Southern Africa Office, Johannesburg
Head, School of Human & Community Development
Wits University, Johannesburg
United States
National Science Foundation
Division Director, Graduate Education, Arlington, Virginia
Associate Graduate Dean
Associate Professor and Director, CIRGE
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Dean and Vice Provost of the Graduate School
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
NIH Research Training Officer
Office of Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health
President
Council of Graduate Schools, Washington DC