| | Carolyn Campbell OBE, Senior Consultant, Observatory on Borderless Higher Education Carolyn has had a career in higher education policy and quality assurance at institutional, national and international levels. She is currently Senior Consultant at the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education and a member of its Advisory Board.
Carolyn is a member of the Appeals Committee of the European Quality Assurance Register. She is also a member of the International Advisory Boards of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the Lumina Foundation in the United States of America. For the past three years she has been the external Academic Board member for Hult International Business School.
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| Claire Nixon, Head of Quality and Development, University of Essex
Claire has worked extensively in the area of educational partnerships for over 15 years, including regional, national and international collaborations. As Head of Quality and Development at Essex her remit spans QA & external regulation, UK and TNE partnerships, degree apprenticeships, and she is the institutional TEF contact. Claire is on the Executive Committee of the CVU (Council of Validating Universities), an organisation whose strapline is ‘quality in partnership’. Prior to her career in Higher Education, Claire was a conference organiser for public and private sector organisations including the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Health Service Journal.
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| | Eduardo Ramos, Head of Transnational Education Universities UK International
Eduardo manages the Transnational Education programme of work at UUK, leading on the development and implementation of strategies that contribute to positioning the UK as a leading transnational education provider and global partner of choice. The programme creates new initiatives in focus regions, supports the development of effective TNE partnerships, and delivers good practice support for strategic leaders and practitioners in UK universities.
Eduardo worked on education internationalisation for Spanish agency ICEX-Invest in Spain, Audencia Business School in France and St George's, University of London. He holds degrees from the Autonomous University of Madrid and the UCL Institute of Education.
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| Gemma Slade, Provider Liaison Officer , Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA)
Gemma joined the OIA as a Case-handler in 2014. She became the Provider Liaison Officer within the Outreach & Insight Team when the team was formed in the summer of 2017. The Outreach & Insight Team focus on the OIA’s good practice dissemination strategy and engagement with providers, student complainants and student representative bodies, ensuring the learning from this engagement informs continuous improvement within the OIA and the wider sector. Before joining the OIA Gemma worked for a university, having previously worked in a range of student services positions for an international language school and an FE college.
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| Dr Phil Taylor, Senior Academic Quality Manager (Partnerships), Royal Holloway, University of London
Phil Taylor works in the Academic Quality and Policy Office at Royal Holloway, where he has responsibility for a range of international partnership agreements and supports the development of international strategy. Prior to joining Royal Holloway in 2015 Phil spent several years as a teaching-focussed academic in international HE roles, including three years at KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, India, delivering validated TNE programmes in partnership with Middlesex University. Phil is actively involved with the AUA and serves as a mentor for students on the PG Cert in Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership.
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| Dr Fabrizio Trifiro, International Manager, QAA
Fabrizio has worked with the QAA for over 10 years. He leads on the quality assurance of TNE, strengthening cooperation with counterpart agencies overseas, and the international student experience. Fabrizio over the years has gained an in-depth understanding of the local operating environment in key host countries of UK TNE, developing close links with local quality assurance agencies and regulatory bodies. He has been contributing to international developments in the quality assurance of TNE, specifically around ways to enhance its effectiveness and efficiency through cross-border cooperation between quality assurance agencies, and assisting the development of local regulatory frameworks for TNE.
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| Dr Vangelis Tsiligiris, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
Dr Vangelis Tsiligiris (FHEA) is a Principal Lecturer at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University and a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University. He has broad experience in European transnational education (TNE) and internationalisation of higher education. Over a period of 13 years, he developed and managed several European universities’ overseas partnerships. Vangelis is an experienced researcher in the area of international higher education where he has published extensively in academic journals and books and presented his works in several international conferences. A record of his work can be found here. He has acted as advisor to the Maltese government on the internationalisation of higher education, and he has conducted high-profile research consultancy projects for the British Council, Universities UK International, and NAFSA. In 2016, Vangelis founded the TNE-Hub (www.tnehug.org) an international network of researchers and practitioners in international higher education. Today, the TNE-Hub has more than 200 members from 25 countries.
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