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Prof. Emil
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Emil Constantinescu, former President of Romania
(1996-2000) and leader of the Romanian Democratic
Convention (1992-1996) is currently President of
the Romanian Academic Forum, the Honorary Chairman
of the Bucharest University Senate and Professor at
the Faculty of Geology at the same university.
Formerly: Rector of the University of Bucharest,
President of the Romanian National Council of
Rectors, member of the Steering Committee of the
European University Association, and the
International Association of University Chairmen;
currently: member of the Board of the Institute for
East-West Studies in New York, of the Balkan
Political Club, member of World Academy of Art and
Science; co-chairman of World Justice Project and of
several geological and mineralogical societies.
Professor Constantinescu has delivered lectures at
many universities worldwide, acting as Chairman and
Key-Speaker at prestigious international congresses
and conferences.
He studied Law at the University of Bucharest, and
obtained a PhD in Geology from the University of
Bucharest, a Sc.D. from Duke University, USA, and
honorary doctorates from universities in several
other countries. A Romanian scientist, researcher,
active politician and committed civil servant, Prof.
Constantinescu has published extensively on
mineralogy as well as on political, economic and
educational issues. He has been awarded numerous
distinctions and awards.
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HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of
the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordann
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A pluralist believing in
consensus and respect for the other, His Royal
Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal believes in
societies in which all peoples can live, work and
function in freedom and with dignity. This goal has
been the moving force behind his interest and
involvement in humanitarian and interfaith issues,
with particular stress on the human dimension of
conflicts.
His Royal Highness has initiated, founded and is
actively involved in a number of Jordanian and
international institutes and committees. HRH served
as a member of the UN's Commission on Legal
Empowerment of the Poor, chairs the Integrity
Council for the Coalition for the Global Commons,
and recently initiated the West Asia – North Africa
Forum. In 1983, he co-chaired the Independent
Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (ICIHI)
calling for a New International Humanitarian Order.
HRH is President and Patron of the Arab Thought
Forum, and Chairman of the Higher Council for
Science and Technology, the Royal Scientific Society
and the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies.
Prince Hassan is the author of nine books.
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Prof. Klaus Hüfner
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Professor of Economics
(retired) and former President of the German
Commission for UNESCO, Prof. Hüfner has held
university teaching positions at the
Pädagogische Hochschule Berlin (Pedagogical
University of Berlin) and the Freie
Universität Berlin (Free University of
Berlin). He has been involved and
participated in numerous national and
international activities and research
projects related to higher education reform.
Among the many prestigious positions held,
are the following: since 1982 Member of the
Executive Board of the German Commission for
UNESCO; since 1993 Honorary President of the
World Federation of United Nations
Associations; since 1994 Member of the
Advisory Board of UNESCO-CEPES; since 1998
Chairman; since 2006 Senior Research Fellow
of the Global Policy Forum.
Professor Hüfner studied
economics, sociology and political sciences
at the Freie Universität Berlin, London
School of Economics and Political Science,
graduated the Institute for International
Studies in Geneva, Princeton University and
Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt. He is the
author of a large number of articles and
studies on the economics and planning of
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Prof.
Jürgen Kohler
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Jürgen Kohler is Professor of Private
Law and Civil Procedure at Greifswald University,
Germany. He has participated in various European and
national activities and projects related to higher
education reform. These include, inter alia:
representative of the German education institutions
in the Committee on Higher Education and Research
(CD-ESR) of the Council of Europe and member of its
Bureau; member of the steering committee of the
Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) of the
EUA-European University Association; chair of the
German Accreditation Council (Akkreditierungsrat);
chair of the Council of Europe project on higher
education governance.
Professor Kohler has held university teaching
positions in Cologne, Konstanz and Bielefeld
(1988-1990), at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität
Greifswald. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Law
and Economics and Rector of Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität
Greifswald between 1994 and 2000.
He studied law in Tübingen and Cologne between 1971
and 1977 and education law at the Higher Regional
Court in Düsseldorf between 1977 and 1979. He
completed his Doctorate in 1983 and his
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Prof. C. Peter Magrath
President Emeritus of the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges (NASULGC), past president of three public
universities (University of Missouri System,
University of Minnesota and State University of New
York at Binghamton), elected to the Board of
Directors of the American Association of Community
Colleges,
C. Peter Magrath is currently on leave from his
position as Senior Presidential Advisor to the
College Board to serve as Interim President of West
Virginia University.
Professor Magrath served on the
Commission on the Future of the National Science
Foundation, organized the Kellogg Commission on the
Future of State and Land-Grant Universities, and
served on the Board of Directors of the Salzburg
Seminar, having acquired a broad perspective on
higher education, including a long history of
leadership in international education activities.
A political scientist with a B.A.
degree from the University of New Hampshire and a
Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Magrath is the
author of numerous books, monographs and articles on
American constitutional law and history, higher
education, and international affairs. He has been
recognized with honorary doctoral degrees from
prestigious American and European universities.
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Prof. Andrei Marga
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Andrei Marga is Rector of
the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
and Professor of Philosophy at this university.
Among numerous positions he is Honorary President of
the Danubian Rectors Conference, Member of the
Collegium of Magna Charta Universitatum Observatory,
Member of the Advisory Board of UNESCO-CEPES, and
former Romanian Minister of Education.
He won numerous titles
and awards, such as Doctor of Humane Letters from
the Plymouth State University of New Hampshire State
(USA), Medaglia Pontificia. Anno
I. Benedictus XVI (Vatican), Herder Prize (Austria –
Germany) and Doctor Honoris Causa from Debrecen
University (Hungary).
As Romanian philosopher, political scientist, and
politician, he has authored a large number of
volumes on political science, political philosophy,
and the philosophy of history. He has also lectured
on specific subjects, such as the philosophic
foundations of transition from communism to a market
economy, and the evolution of principles guiding
European integration. In later works, he approached
topics pertaining to the philosophy of religion and
to the status of religion in the age of
globalization.
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Prof. Sir Peter Scott
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Peter Scott is Vice-Chancellor of Kingston
University, United Kingdom. Prior to this he was Pro
Vice-Chancellor for External Affairs at the
University of Leeds. He was also Professor of
Education and Director of the Centre for Policy
Studies in Education. Before going to Leeds in 1992,
he was for sixteen years Editor of the Times Higher
Education Supplement.
He was educated at the University of Oxford where he
studied history and at the University of California
at Berkeley where he was a visiting scholar at the
Graduate School of Public Policy while holding a
Harkness Fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund of
New York.
He has honorary doctorates from the University of
Bath, the University of Manchester Institute of
Science and Technology, the (former) Council for
National Academic Awards, Anglia Polytechnic
University and Grand Valley State University. He is
also a Member of the Academia Europea and of the
Academy of Learned Societies for the Social
Sciences.
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Mr. Alex Usher
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Alex Usher is Vice-President
(Research) and Director of the Educational Policy
Institute (EPI) in Toronto, Canada, which is a
non-partisan research organization dedicated to
improving access to, and quality in, higher
education.
He was the first
national director of the Canadian Alliance of
Student Associations (1995-1996), served as a
researcher and lobbyist for the Association of
Universities and Colleges of Canada (1996-1998),
worked as a consultant for the Council of Ministers
of Education, Canada and the Government of Canada
(1989-1998). Immediately prior to joining EPI, Mr. Usher was the Director of
Research and Program Development (2000-2003) for the
Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, where he
was in charge of Canada's largest-ever research
project on access to post-secondary education.
He graduated from McGill University
and Carleton University. With an academic background
in history, economics and political science, Mr.
Usher is the author of two dozen articles and
monographs on higher education and is a
globally-recognized expert on student assistance and
quality measurement in higher education.
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Prof. Georg Winckler
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Georg Winckler is
Rector of the University of Vienna, where he
also teaches economics. Among the prestigious
positions held are to be mentioned that of President
of the European University Association – EUA (March
2005); President of the Austrian Rectors’ Conference
(2000-2005). He led the Center for International and
Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of
Vienna in the period 1994-1999. He has also
participated in various European and national
activities and projects related to higher education
reform. Since 2008, he is member of the European
Research Area Board (ERAB), EU-Commission, Brussels.
Prof. Winckler has taught as visiting professor at
the University of Bratislava/Slovakia, at the
Georgetown University in Washington D.C./USA, at the
University of Linz and the University of Graz in
Austria, and at the Université Fribourg in
Switzerland.
He graduated from the Princeton
University (Princeton, New Jersey/USA) and the
University of Vienna (Austria), and completed his
Doctorate in 1968. His main areas of research are
monetary and applied economics, in which he
published numerous books and articles. |
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