Experienced advisors on Institutional Strategy Development and European Universities

1. ADVISOR ON INSTITUTIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO THE RECTOR (AND RECTOR TEAM) OF THE VALENCIA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (SPAIN); 2. INDEPENDENT ADVISOR TO GOVERNMENTS, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, QUALITY ASSURANCE AGENCIES, UNIVERSITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORKS. EXAMPLES INCLUDE:• EUROPEAN UNION: • OECD: CO-AUTHOR OF THE 2007 REPORT ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN SPAIN.• WORLD BANK: QUALITY ASSURANCE IN URUGUAY, COOPERATION IN THE MEDA REGION.• UNESCO: ADVISOR FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE 2009 WORLD CONFERENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK PROPOSAL FOR PERU; COMPETITIVENESS PLAN FOR CHILE.• GOVERNMENTS: ADVISOR TO THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION OF KOSOVO (2013-2015) • QUALITY ASSURANCE AGENCIES: MEMBER OF THE GOVERNING BOARD OR ADVISORY BOARD OF QA AGENCIES IN AUSTRIA, GERMANY, SPAIN, KOSOVO • ADVISOR TO UNIVERSITY LEADERS AND UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATIONS3. PRESENTER/PANELLIST/CHAIR AT NUMEROUS CONFERENCES ON HIGHER EDUCATION ON ALLCONTINENTS, MAINLY ON HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES, POLICIES AND STRUCTURES, INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, QUALITY ISSUES, QUALIFICATION FRAMEWORKS, INTERNATIONALISATION, UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION, EMPLOYABILITY, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, STRATEGIC ALLIANCES.

DG Education and CultureDesigner of the EU's agenda for the modernisation of higher education as part of the Lisbon Strategy.Main author of the Communications of the Commission on: Investing more and better in Education/ Training, the Role of Universities in the Europe of Knowledge, Mobilising the Brainpower of Europe, Delivering on the Modernisation Agenda for European Higher Education.Participation in numerous high level meetings and presentations to various high-level audiences.

Main designer and promoter of the Bologna process for the creation of a coherent, compatible and competitive European higher education area by 2010.Many high-level contacts with Ministries, Rectors Conferences and European organisations andassociations. Contacts with media, numerous conferences and publications

- as VP of CIEE-World: development of the main action line (world internships); 10,000 interns per year, mainly between USA and Europe, also with other continents- as Director General of CIEE Europe: CEO of 6 national offices and 20 student exchange programmes in countries all over Europe; also CEO of 5 travel agencies for student/youth; altogether, 200 staffand an annual budget of some EUR 200 million. Extensive contacts with embassies/consulates,schools/universities and enterprises, media, national agencies and NGOs

Assistance to the EU Commission for the design and inception of the ERASMUS programme and the launching of new cooperation programmes in higher education. Deputy Director of the EU’s ERASMUS Bureau & Consultant for the design and launching of the TEMPUS programme Launching of the ERASMUS programme: setting up of the EU ERASMUS unit, assistance to Member States for the setting up of national agencies. In 1989-1991, design of the new TEMPUS-PHARE and later TEMPUS-TACIS programmes for the European Commission

Development of all undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education programmes, with avery strong European component (creation of the double-degree ERASMUS consortium in the EU), business liaison (cooperation, funding, over 1,000 internships/year), European and international relations (creation of an annual joint European-US summer course) (Seconded to the ERASMUS Bureau in Brussels as Deputy-Director, October 1986-June 1988)