THE SPEAKERS
Workshops

Dr. Michaela Martin
IIEP-UNESCO Programme Specialist

Dr. Susanna Karakhanyan
INQAAHE Immediate Past President
Theme: INQAAHE’s International Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education (ISG)

Dr. Michael K. J. Milligan
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, ABET
Theme: Developing a Training Program for Evaluators and Team Leaders

Dr. Yaping Gao
VP Member Services & Global Partnership, Quality Matters
Theme: Quality Assurance for digital and blended learning, challenges and innovative approaches

Dr. Deb Adair
CEO Quality Matters & INQAAHE President
Theme: Quality Assurance for digital and blended learning, challenges and innovative approaches

Mr. Bowen TAN
Programme Specialist, UNESCO ICHEI
Theme: Quality Assurance for digital and blended learning, challenges and innovative approaches
Opening Keynote

Dr. Libing Wang
Chief of Section for Educational Innovation and Skills Development (EISD) at UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok, Thailand
Theme 1. Panel Discussion
Fostering quality of flexible learning pathways

Prof. Dato DR. Mohamad Shatar Bin Sabran
CEO Malaysia Qualifications Agency (MQA), Malaysia

Dr. Susanna Karakhanyan
Higher Education Policy & Regulation Director at the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), United Arab Emirates

Dr. Esther Huertas
Head of Quality Assurance Department, Agency for Quality Assurance in the Catalan University System (AQU Catalunya), Spain

Horia Onita
QA student expert, Member of the Global Student Forum (GSF) and Vice President of European Students Union (ESU), Belgium
Theme 1 Break-out 1
Multi-speaker session

Prof. MORI Rie
Professor, National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education (NIAD-QE), Japan
Theme: Independent lifelong learning system through credit-hour accumulation and its quality assurance

Dr. Christina Ng
Senior Registrar (Development), Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic & Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ), Hong Kong
Theme: Preparing Hong Kong for the journey of developing micro-credentials

Dr. Esther Huertas
Head of Quality Assurance Department, (AQU Catalunya)
Theme: Short Learning Programmes: a flexible pathway to access tertiary education
Theme 1 Break-out 2
Interactive session

Dr. Michale S. McComis
Chief Executive Officer, Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC)
Theme: One Path is a Narrow Journey
Theme 2 Break-out 1
Multi-speaker session

Dr. Bryan Maguire
Director of Quality Assurance, Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), Ireland
Theme: Development of new quality assurance guidelines for online learning

Zhuang Seraya
(National Chengchi University, Taiwan), China

Mag.ª Diane Freiberger
Managing Director, Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA), Germany
Theme 2 Break-out 2
Interactive session

Dr. Duncan Priestley
General Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Nazarbayev University
Moderator

Dr. Lia Blaj-Ward
Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
Theme: Hallmarks of Success Playbooks: Enhancing quality of digital teaching and learning

Amrita Narang
Quality enhancement and standards specialist, QAA, UK
Theme: Hallmarks of Success Playbooks: Enhancing quality of digital teaching and learning
Theme 2 Break-out 3
Multi-speaker session

Miras Daulenov
Rector of the Narxoz University, Kazakhstan
Theme: Quality Assurance in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Opportunities and Approaches

Sergey Pen
Provost (Rector) of Maqsut Narikbayev University (KAZGUU), Kazakhstan
Theme 2 Break-out 4
Interactive session

Ms. Perliter Walters-Gilliam
President and Principal Consultant, NBBE Consulting
Theme: Evaluation of Challenges for the accreditation and oversight of Third-Party Ed-Tech Providers

Ms. Kimberlee Moore
Doctoral Candidate, University of Liverpool
Theme: Evaluation of Challenges for the accreditation and oversight of Third-Party Ed-Tech Providers
Theme 3 break-out 1
Multi-speaker session

Ziwei ZHOU
Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR; National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Theme: Policy transformation in China’s Transnational Higher Education: Quality assurance and impacts

Prof. Angela Yung-Chi Hou
Associate Dean, College of Education, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Christopher Hongyi Tao
Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR; National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Theme 3 Break-out 2
Multi-speaker session

Dr. Fabrizio Trifiro
Head of Stakeholder Engagement and International Quality Reviews, Ecctis/UK ENIC UK

Dr. Yaping Gao
VP Member Services & Global Partnerships, Quality Matters (QM), USA
Theme: Quality Online Course Sharing for Cross-Border Online Education

Mr. Eduardo Ramos
Director of International and Professional Services, The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), UK
Theme 4 break-out 1
Multi-speaker session
Mr. Martin Boswell
Registrar, Wellington Institute of Technology and Whitireia Community Polytechnic, New Zealand
Theme: Quality assurance dysfunctions, within ‘integrity’ INQAAHE value

Dr. Whitfield Green
Chief Executive Officer, Council on Higher Education (CHE), South Africa
Theme: Towards a new future for quality assurance in higher education in South Africa

Dr. Britta Zawada
Director, Institutional Audits, Council on Higher Education (CHE), South Africa
Theme: Towards a new future for quality assurance in higher education in South Africa

Umankulova Onolkan
EdNet Kyrgyzstan
Theme 4 Break-out 2
Multi-speaker session

Dr. Hayfa Jafar
Director Institutional Effectiveness – American University of Iraq

Dr. Oleg Legusov
International Student Advisor, Seneca College, Canada

Dr. Scott G. Blair
Director of Accreditation and Quality Assurance at AIAASC, USA, Vice President of CANIE-Europe (AIAASC / CANIE)

Dr. José Luis Mateos-González
Senior Advisor, Internationalisation and Knowledge Generation Department (AQU Catalunya), Spain

Dr. Anna Prades
Head of Internationalization and Knowledge Generation Department of the Agency for Quality Assurance in the Catalan University System (AQU Catalunya), Spain
Theme 4 Break-out 3
Interactive session

Dr. Karen Belfer
Executive Director, Ontario College Quality Assurance Service (OCQAS), Canada
Theme 4 Break-out 4
Interactive session

Dr. Yvonne Overdevest
Senior Policy Advisor NVAO, Netherlands,and member of ENQA’s working group on academic integrity
Theme: Academic Integrity and ENQA quality assurance agencies: where do we stand and where are we headed?

Ms. Sue Hackett
QQI, Ireland, and Chair of ENQA’s working group on academic integrity
Theme: Academic Integrity and ENQA quality assurance agencies: where do we stand and where are we headed?