Katarzyna Chalasinska-Macukow

Rector of the University of Warsaw since 2005. She was granted the title of doctor habilitatus in 1988 and the title of professor in 1997. From 1992 to 1996 she was the head of Ph.D studies and from 1995 a Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Physics. From 1996 to 2002 she was a Dean of the Faculty and from 2002 to 2005 a Vice-Rector for Finance and Personnel of the University of Warsaw. In 2008 she was re-elected Rector of the University of Warsaw. Prof. Chalasinska-Macukow has held, among other positions, those of Vice-president of the International Commission for Optics (1993-1999), Chair of the ICO Prize Committee (1996-1999), Vice-president of the Polish Physical Society (2001-2003). She is a member of the Presidium of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland and is a current member of scientific councils and various international organizations from the area of optics, including EOS, IOP, and SPIE.

Bernd Waechter

Waldemar Siwinski

Founder and president of “Perspektywy” Education Foundation, a non profit organization specializing in marketing and promotion of higher education in Poland and internationally. He had been a president of the Polish Press Agency (PAP), bureau member of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA), board member, European PressPhoto Agency (EPA), member, International Press Institute. Waldemar Siwinski is an author an initiator of prestigious rankings of higher education institutions and secondary schools in Poland organized for the past 15 years by the "Perspektywy" Education Foundation and published by “Perspektywy” monthly magazine together with the "Rzeczpospolita", a top newspaper in Poland.

Hans de Wit

Director of The Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise of the Hague Academic Coalition, and Director of Training and Education in T.M.C. Asser Institute for Private and Public International Law in the Hague. He has also set up a private consultancy and research company called De Wit International Higher Education Consultancy. 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 in the period 1986-2005. In 2006 he received the Honorary Medal of the Universiteit van Amsterdam for his long term services to the university, and an Award of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) for outstanding leadership and contributions as Editor of association’s journal.

Jean-Kely Paulhan

Coordinator of Programmes, Counselor of the Director General in CampusFrance. He is an author of number of publications in the field of French social and political history.

Annette Julius

Since November 2006 she has been responsible for the DAAD Office in Berlin, and since September 2007 for the Northern Hemisphere Department in Bonn. In 2001 Annette Julius joined the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD in Bonn, where she was first the Head of the Section for “Policy Planning and Coordination” and in 2005 became the Head of the Division for “Strategy and Cross-Sectional Programmes”. Graduate in English and Russian Language and Literature at the University of Cologne, the University of Dundee in Scotland and the Pushkin Institute of Russian Language in Moscow. From 1992 to 1995 Annette Julius did a PhD in Slavonic Studies, with several research stays in Moscow. After completing her PhD, she worked six years for the Catholic German scholarship foundation Cusanuswerk

Karol Musiol

Jan Sadlak

Director of UNESCO-CEPES since September 1999. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief of the Section for Higher Education Policy and Reform in UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Dr. Sadlak holds an MA in economics from the Oskar Lange Economics Academy in Wrocław, Poland, and a PhD in educational administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Dr. Sadlak has held, among other positions, those of Executive Secretary of the Standing Conference of Rectors, Presidents and Vice-chancellors of the European Universities (CRE), Geneva, Switzerland; Member of the Advisory Committee, Salzburg Seminar Universities Project, Salzburg, Austria; Special Advisor and Member of the Executive Committee, International Association of University Presidents (IAUP). He is a current member of the governing boards and scientific councils of various educational bodies and organizations.

Gero Federkeil

Since 2000 he has been working at the CHE Centre for Higher Education Development as a project manager. His main fields of work are ranking, evaluation, quality management and performance indicators. He is coordinating the international ranking activities at CHE and has published on quality assessment and rankings. He is a member of the German Association of Higher Education Research and the German Association of Evaluation. He started to work for the German Science Council in 1993 where he focused on higher education, evaluation and indicators, higher education and employment and on university medicine. He conducted many evaluations of German higher education institutions.

Liu Nian Cai

Sholpan M. Kalanova

Director of National Accreditation Centre of Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan and  President of European Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. She obtained Diploma of Engineer from the Kazakh Chemical-Technological Institute in Shymken and Doctoral degree from the Institute of Organic Catalysis and Electrochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR as well as title of the Doctor of pedagogical sciences from the Moscow State Pedagogical University.  In 2001 she was awarded a title of “Professor” by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She has been a Vice-rector of two public universities. Professor Kalanova was in charge of the team which produced in 2007 the first ranking of higher education institutions in Kazakhstan.

Andrzej Kozminski

Alex Usher

The Director of Educational Policy Institute Canada and the Vice-President of Educational Policy Institute International. Prior to joining the Educational Policy Institute in 2003, Mr. Usher served as the Director of Research and Program Development at the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. Mr. Usher was the first national director of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations and served as a researcher and lobbyist for the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. Mr. Usher has authored or co-author over 30 articles and monographs focused on the policy environment surrounding post-secondary education. Mr. Usher holds an M.A. in political science from Carleton University and a B.A. in history from McGill University.

Daniel Obst

Director of Membership and Higher Education Services at the Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York, one of the leading non-profit organizations in the field of international educational exchange and development training. Mr. Obst directs all the activities of the IIENetwork, the Institute’s university membership association of 900 higher education institutions around the world, and is responsible for IIE’s print and online publications, conferences and seminars, and is managing editor of IIENetworker, IIE’s international education magazine. Mr. Obst recently published Funding for United States Study: A Guide for International Students and Professionals. Mr. Obst received his B.A. in International Relations from George Washington University and holds a MasterÕs degree in European Studies from the London School of Economics.

Tadeusz Luty

Since 2002 Rector of the Wrocław University of Technology and President of the Council of Rectors of Wrocław and Opole Universities. In 2005 he was re-elected Rector of the Wrocław University of Technology and elected President of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (CRASP). In 2006 he obtained the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. Recently he was elected as a member of the European University Association Board. He is an Honorary Member of the Business Centre Club (BCC).
In 1988 he obtained the title of Ordinary Professor at the Wrocław University of Technology. In the 1980s and 1990s he co-operated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, and became Visiting Professor at Colorado State University in Fort Collins (USA). In the 1990s he joined French universities: Universite de Rennes and Universite de Lille as Visiting Professor. In 1997 he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA). In 1999-2002 he held the post of Director of the Centre for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at the Wrocław University of Technology.

Hubert Duerrstein

Since December 2007 President of the Austrian Exchange Service (OAD). He is a Professor of Forestry Engineering and Forestry Work at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, where he was also Rector between 2003 and 2007. Professor Duerrstein holds an honorary PhD from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca in Romania.

Michael Zgurovsky

Rector of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kiev Polytechnic Institute” and Director of the Institute for Applied System Analysis of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
He is Head of the Association of Rectors of Technical Universities of Ukraine, Co-Head of the Ukrainian Union of Scientists and Engineers. During 1994-1999 M. Zgurovsky was Ukraine’s Minister of Education. He is a member of the Academies of Science of many countries, and many international educational institutions, among others the Governing Board of UNESCO’s Institute for Information Technologies in Education (Moscow, Russia).

Vera Stastna

She works at the Higher Education Department at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. She is responsible for developmental strategy and internationalization of higher education, including the implementation of European and regional academic programmes and the Bologna Process in the field of higher education. In 2005-2006 she was a director of the Higher Education Development Unit and since 2007 she has worked on preparation of the Czech Presidency to the EU in the area of higher education. Vera Stastna was awarded a degree “Doctor of Natural Science” at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague.

Uwe Brandenburg

Rolf Heusser

Since 2001 a Director of OAQ (Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance of the Swiss Universities). Chairman of ECA (European Consortium for Accreditation in higher education). Studied medicine at the University of Zurich. Post-graduate studies in public health at the University of California, Berkeley. In the period 1988-2000 he was a head physician at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at Zurich university. A Chairman of the European Consortium of Accreditation (ECA). Member of expert panels in foreign accreditation procedures and in peer reviews of agencies (ENQA peer reviews). Member of the scientific board of the German accreditation agency “AHPGS”. Founder of the “Swiss University Quality Network”. Member of further national and international commissions and committees related to research, teaching and quality assurance.

Christian Berthold

Since 2001 the first executive manager of CHE Consult, which is a spin off from CHE. Continuously growing, CHE Consult now has 18 staff members. At CHE he worked intensively in the field of further education of university managers, as well as general further training of university staff through the Executive University Management Programme of the CHE and CHE Consult. He obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Cologne in 1990. His expertise lies with all questions of university management, especially in strategic planning, faculty management, quality assurance, quality management and general administration.

Hannu Janhunen