Armando Alcantara
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		Armando Alcantara is profesor and researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educacion (IISUE) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He also teaches in UNAM’s graduate program in Pedagogy, and is member of the Seminar on Higher Education in the same university.
		He was visiting scholar at the Center, from September 2000 to April 2001, and undertook a study of science and technology in universities of developing countries that was published in Spanish in Revista de la Educacion Superior (Vol. XXXi (123): 91-109).
		His research interests are in higher education policy, the impact of globalization on educational policies, and comparative higher education.

		Charles Beirne, SJ
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		Fr. Beirne served as principal of Colegio San Ignacio in Puerto Rico and Regis High School in NYC. After stints as associate dean of the Georgetown Business School and academic vice president at Santa Clara, he went to the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) of El Salvador in 1990 to replace the academic vice president who had been assassinated. Before becoming President of Le Moyne College in Syracuse in 2000, Fr. Beirne also served as academic vice president of the Jesuit University in Guatemala (Universidad Rafael Landivar). At the request of the Jesuit superior general he is now a consultant for the Jesuits of Africa as they plan for the first Jesuit universities on that continent.

		Dunrong Bie
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		Bie Dunrong is a Professor in the School of Education at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research areas are Management of Higher Education, Theories of Higher Education, and Business and Management of Education. Dr. Bie is also an adjunct professor of Xiamen University, Fujian Agricultural University, Liaoning University of Science and Technology, Jinan University, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, China Three Gorges University and Zhaoqing College, acts as a standing member of Chinese Society of Higher Education Evaluation, a standing member of Chinese Society of Higher Education Management, a member and vice secretary general of Chinese Society of Higher Education Study. He has a wide range of international experience in a number of countries, such as France, U.S.A., Japan, Norway, and Austria, etc. He has published more than 20 books as author, editor, co-editor and translator, and published about 150 academic papers in Chinese, English and Japanese. He also acts as an adviser of university development and higher education policy. He has been invited to give lectures and taught courses in over 70 universities and colleges.

		Jan Currie
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		Jan Currie from Australia is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Social and Community Research at Murdoch University and Adjunct Professor in Economics and Commerce at the University of Western Australia. She is currently working part-time as a Senior Policy Adviser in the Pay Equity Unit of the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection with the Western Australian State Government. She is also Chair of the Board of Management of the One World Centre that provides global education for teachers and pre-service education students.
		She was a visiting scholar at the Center in 1998-99 and undertook a case study of Boston College that was included in the book Globalizing Practices and University Responses: European and Anglo-American Differences (Praeger, 2003).
		Her research interests are in higher education policy, the impact of globalization on universities, academic freedom, research assessments and autonomy for universities, gender pay equity and the sociology of work.

		Hans de Wit
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		Hans de Wit is the Dean of Windesheim Honours College of the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Zwolle. He was until September 1, 2007 Director of the Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise of the Hague Academic Coalition and senior policy advisor of the T.M.C. Asser Institute of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Hans de Wit has been the Director of the Office of Foreign Relations, Vice-President for International Affairs and Senior Advisor International at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in the period 1986-2005.
		He is the Editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education, published by the Association for Studies in International Education and as of 2001 by SAGE publishers. He was a New Century Scholar of the Fulbright Program in the 2005-2006 program Higher Education in the 21st Century. A new book The Dynamics in International Student Circulation in a Global Context, co-edit with four colleagues from Asia and Africa and based on their NCS scholarship, is published in 2008 by SensePublishers.
		Both in 1995 and 2006 he spent a semester as visiting scholar at Boston College, in 1995 at the Sociology Department and in 2006 at the Center for International Higher Education.

		Heather Eggins
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		Professor Heather Eggins is currently Visiting Professor at the Institute for Access Studies, Staffordshire University, Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and a senior member of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She was a Fulbright New Century Scholar 2005/2006 working on the topic of ‘Higher Education in the 21st Century: Global Challenge and National Response’. She was Editor of Higher Education Quarterly for the period Jan 2004- March 2007. Her last post was Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education. Her previous career spanned academic administration, working for the UK Council for National Academic Awards, editing – Editor for The University of Colorado at Boulder- and lecturing at various universities (Boulder, Colorado; Warwick; University of Ulster).
		Her research interests lie generally in the area of policy and strategy in higher Education, with particular interest in access issues, and the impact of globalisation.

		Adnan El-Amine
		Adnan El-Amine is professor in the Faculty of Education at Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon. He holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne. He is a member of the UNESCO National Commissoon for Lebanon, and has been a member of the coordinating committee of the Arab Education Forum. He is editor of Quality Assurance in Arab Universities, Reform of General Education in the Arab Countries, and other books, and is author of numerous book chapters and articles in Arabic, English, and French. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Boston College in 2005.

		Xabier Gorostiaga, S.J.
		Xabier Gorostiaga, S.J., (1937-2003) was born in Spain but spent his adult life working in Latin America, where he arrived in Cuba in 1958 and came to know Fidel Castro personally. He studied philosophy in Ecuador and Mexico, theology in the Basque Country of Spain, and economics at Cambridge in England. Father Gorostiaga was rector of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua from 1991-1997. He served as an advisor to the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, and was also the chief advisor to the government of Panama during its negotiations with the United States over the Panama Canal. Father Gorostiaga was active in Latin American Jesuit affairs, at one time holding the position of executive secretary of the Association of Universities Entrusted to the Company of Jesus in Latin America (AUSJAL). He was also the director of the journal Pensamiento Propio, a bilingual publication dedicated to the analysis of socioeconomic issues across the Caribbean.

		Rudolf C. Heredia, S.J.
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		Rudolf C. Heredia is a research fellow at the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, and editor of the Institute’s journal, Social Action. He completed his Licencitiate in philosophy (1967) and his Bachelors in theology (1973) from Jnana Deepa Vidyapeet, Pune, Maharastra. He has his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Chicago (1979), and was the founder director of the Social Science Centre, St. Xavier’s College Mumbai, 1980-1992 and director again in 1994-2003. In 1992-94 he was director, department of research, at the Indian Social Institute and edited the institute’s journal, Social Action, 1993-94. From 1998 – 2003 he was the rector of St. Xavier’s College. His interests include issues related to religion, education, globalisation At present he is working on affirmative action.
		Some of his publications are: Voluntary Action and Development: Towards a Praxis for Non-Government Agencies, Concept, N. Delhi, 1988; Tribal Education for Community Development: A Study of Schooling in the Talasari Mission Area, ibid., 1992; Urban Housing and Voluntary Agencies: Case Studies in Bombay, Institute of Social Sciences, N. Delhi, 1989; Tribal Identity and Minority Status: The Katkari Nomads in Transition, 1994; The Family in a Changing World, and Secularism and Liberation: Perspectives and strategies for India Today, 1995, edited with Edward Mathias, Indian Social Institute, N. Delhi; Mobile and Marginalized Peoples: Perspectives from the Past, 2003, edited with Shereen F. Ratnagar, Manohar, N. Delhi; Changing Gods: Rethinking Conversion in India, Penguin, India, 2007.

		Jane Knight
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		Jane Knight from Canada focuses her research on the international dimension of higher education at the institutional, system, national and international levels. She was a visiting scholar at CIHE in the fall of 2007 as part of the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program and studied the risks and benefits of crossborder education as a way to increase access and equity.
		She is the author/editor of many publications on internationalisation concepts and strategies, quality assurance, institutional management, mobility, cross-border education, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and capacity building. In the last ten years she has been part of four regional studies and publications on internationalization of higher education in Europe/North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa. Dr Knight has been the principle researcher and author of several national and international survey projects on internationalization including the worldwide surveys conducted by the International Association of Universities. Her most recent book is Higher Education in Turmoil: The Changing World of Internationalization (2008). She is an adjunct professor at the Comparative, International, and Development Education Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

		Ulla Kriebernegg
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		Ulla Kriebernegg works as an Assistant Professor for the Center of the Study of the Americas at Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria. She studied English and American Studies and German Philology at Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria and at University College Dublin, Ireland. In her Master thesis, she worked on the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. She is currently doing her PhD (dissertation topic: "Transatlantic Relationships in Higher Education: An Analysis of Cultural Narratives"). She teaches Cultural Studies at the Department of American Studies at the University of Graz. Her research interests are American literary and cultural studies, intercultural studies, transatlantic relationships in higher education and the impact of the Bologna Process.

		Molly N.N. Lee
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		Dr. Molly N.N. Lee is the Coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Programme for Development and Programme Specialist in Higher Education at UNESCO Asia and the Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok. Prior to joining UNESCO Bangkok, she has been a Professor of Education in University of Science, Malaysia, in Penang. Her research interests are higher education, teacher education, ICT in education and education for sustainable development.
		Her publications are on higher education include: “Restructuring Higher Education in Malaysia”, “Private Higher Education in Malaysia”, “Malaysian Universities: Towards Equality, Accessibility, Quality”, “The Corporatisation of a Public University: Influence of Market Forces and State Control”and “Global Trends, National Policies and Institutional Responses: Restructuring Higher Education”.

		Liudvika Leišyte
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		Liudvika Leišyte holds a PhD degree from the University of Twente, where she defended her dissertation on University Governance and Academic Research in 2007. Prior to coming to CHEPS in 2003, she was a research student at Nottingham University, Faculty of Education. Liudvika obtained the MPhil degree in International and Comparative Education from the University of Oslo in 2002 and holds a post-graduate Diploma in International Business and a BA degree in Linguistics from Vilnius University. Her work experience includes, but is not limited to teaching and participating in the project work at Twente, Oslo and Vilnius Universities, being an educational advisor for Soros Foundation, and working as a protocol specialist at the Ministry of Economy in Lithuania.
		Her research interests include European higher education governance and management, comparative and international education, university-industry collaboration. While visiting Boston College in particular she is interested in furthering her research and teaching in comparative and international higher education.

		Gerard A. Postiglione
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		Postiglione is editor of the journal Chinese Education and Society, and four book series, two about China and two about Hong Kong. His books include: Asian Higher Education, East Asia at School, Education and Social Change in China, China National Minority Education, Education and Society in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong's Reunion with China. As a researcher/consultant Postiglione handled for projects of the Academy of Educational Development, Asian Development Bank, Department for International Development, Institute of International Education, International Development Research Center, and United Nations Development Programme, and he advised NGOs and foundations, including a year appointment as senior consultant to Ford Foundation/Beijing, and researcher on the academic profession for Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He was director of the Centre of Research on Education in China of the University of Hong Kong and is currently Head of its Division of Policy, Administration and Social Science.

		Damtew Teferra
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		Damtew Teferra is currently Director for Africa and the Middle East at the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program based at the Institute of International Education in New York. Until recently, he was Associate Research Professor of Higher Education at the Center for International Higher Education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College. Teferra is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa and the Founder and Director of the International Network for Higher Education in Africa . Damtew is the Senior Editor of the Conover-Porter Award winning book African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook (Indiana University Press, 2003) and an author of Scientific Communication in African Universities: National Needs and External Support (RoutledgeFalmer, 2003). Teferra holds a Ph.D. from Boston College, a M.Phil. from University of Stiriling, Scotland, and a B.Sc. from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

		Anthony Welch
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		Anthony Welch is Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. A policy specialist, his more than one hundred publications include studies of reforms and policy issues within Australia, Asia, the UK, USA and elsewhere.
		He holds an M.A., and Ph. D. from the University of London, has lectured in many parts of the world, and has authored or edited eight books, with several others forthcoming. His work has been translated into eight major European and Asian languages. Professor Welch has consulted to international agencies, governments in Australia, Asia, as well as within Europe, and to US institutions, and he has project experience in several parts of Asia, particularly in the area of higher education reforms. He has been Visiting Professor in the USA, UK, Germany, France and Japan, and in July 2008 will deliver the prestigious Joseph Lauwerys Lecture, at the Comparative Education Society of Europe (CESE), in Athens. He holds an Australian Research Council Grant for a project on the Chinese Knowledge Diaspora, and is Fulbright New Century Scholar, 2007-8 (Theme: Access and Equity in Higher Education). His two most recent books are The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession (Springer 2005) and Education, Change and Society (Oxford 2007).

		Keiko Yokoyama
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		Keiko Yokoyama, from Japan, Visiting Scholar at Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, during Summer 2007. She undertook a project on "The US Quality Assurance Mechanism and Overseas Branch Campuses: Autonomy and Accountability", while she was visiting at the Center. She is currently Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study for Higher and Post-secondary Education, the University of Michigan. She was formally Associate Professor at the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan. Her major research interests are the internationalization of higher education, comparative higher education policies, and institutional governance, management and leadership in Japan, the UK, and the US. She has conducted a range of research projects funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, etc.
		Her recent publications include Entrepreneurialism in Japanese and the UK Universities: Governance, Management, Leadership, and Funding in a journal, Higher Education (2006), and The Effect of RAE on Organisational Culture in English Universities: Collegiality versus Managerialism in a journal, Tertiary Education and Management (2006).