Journal of the European Higher Education Area

Professor Kelly is the Vice-Rector for International Relations and Development Cooperation at the University of Granada, Spain. She sits on the expert committee of the Directorate General for Translation at the EU and coordinates the research group ‘AVANTI’. She is a leading researcher in teaching innovation and innovation in tutorials, and is an editor for several international journals, as well as co-founding the ‘Interpreter and Translator Trainer’ magazine.

Prof. Dr. jur. Jürgen Kohler is professor of private law and civil procedure at Greifswald University, Germany. He was rector of Greifswald University for six years and has participated in various European and national activities and projects related to higher education reform. These have included, 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; chair of the German Accreditation Council (Akkreditierungsrat); chair of the EUA project Quality Culture I – Implementing Bologna Reforms and of the EUA project European Masters’ New Evaluation Methodology; chair of the Council of Europe project on higher education governance.

Liviu Matei is Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Central European University in Budapest, as well as a Professor at the Department of Public. He worked as a Director General for International Relations at the Romanian Ministry of Education, consulted for UNESCO, OSCE, and the Council of Europe, served as co-chair of the Working Group for Higher Education of the Stability Pact for South East Europe and also on the steering committee of the UNESCO-EU Project on Management of Higher Education in South-East Europe. He has been active in several research/policy projects of the European University Association and is a member of the Board of the International Higher Education Support Program, and member of the GRE European Advisory Council.

Dr Terhi Nokkala is a Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER), University of Jyväskylä. Her research focuses on the interplay between higher education policy, technological developments, organisational parameters and networks, and individual experiences in various aspects of higher education, with specific interest in internationalisation, research collaboration and university autonomy. Prior to joining the FIER in June 2010, Terhi Nokkala worked as a Research Fellow at Centre for Research in Social Simulation at the University of Surrey with research related to research collaboration networks. Terhi received her PhD in Higher Education from the University of Tampere in 2007.

Lewis Purser is director for academic affairs at the Irish Universities Association. From 1998-2005 he was programme manager at the EUA. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies at the University of Geneva, he worked from 1989-1998 with various higher education institutions in Hungary, Romania and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and with several United Nations agencies in educational, health and social fields.

Professor Sir Peter Scott is Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University in London. He is the President of the Academic Cooperation Association, the Brussels-based organisation that promotes international education, and a member of the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Pedro Nuno Teixeira is Director of CIPES – Center for Higher Education Policy Studies and Associate Professor at the Faculdade de Economia – University of Porto. His research interests focus on the economics of higher education, notably on markets and privatisation, and in the history of economic thought. Recent publications include several articles in economics and higher education journals and his book “Jacob Mincer – A Founding Father of Modern Labour Economics” (Oxford UP, 2007). He has also co-edited three volumes on “Markets in Higher Education – Reality or Rhetoric?” (Kluwer, 2004), on “Cost-Sharing and Accessibility in Higher Education – A Fairer Deal?” (Springer, 2006), and on “Public Vices, Private Virtues – Assessing the Effects of Marketization in Higher Education” (Sense, 2011).