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CHER-HongKong2018

The IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research 2018

Conference Theme: "Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Value"

October 19–21, 2018 | Lingnan University, Hong Kong

The IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research – Hong Kong (CHER–HongKong)In recent years, governments in East Asia have called for a university-industry-business collaboration to support innovation and entrepreneurship. With the growing importance of technology advancement and its potential impact on social and economic changes, different strategies have been adopted to promote a smart city, innovation and entrepreneurship across different countries. The IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research – Hong Kong (CHER-HongKong) sets out against the wider political economy context to examine how governments, universities, industries and businesses, and the community at large in Asia, work together to nurture innovation and entrepreneurship not only for reasons of economic growth, but also for social development and cultural enhancement.

The HKSAR Government has realised that innovation, information and technology, and entrepreneurship are important drivers for new economic growth. Thus, the HKSAR has proactively supported innovation and creativity for economic development and knowledge transfer activities. In order to capture the development opportunities given by the Big Bay Area in South China and the strategic development directions under the “Belt and Road Initiatives” rolled out by the Chinese Government, the HKSAR Government has actively called the university sector to engage with the industries and businesses, as well as the local, regional and international community to work together to promote innovation-centric entrepreneurship. The Conference organised in Hong Kong against the regional development context outlined above will provide stimulating conversations and dialogues for conference participants.

This conference offers the international platform for higher education researchers, senior university administrators, government officials, policy analysts, and professionals working across industries and education to explore new strategies/measures in support of innovation-centric entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, this conference also engages presenters and participants to examine policy, management and governance, ethical and value issues when promoting innovation, entrepreneurship and value.

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Programme

  • The Impact of Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia on Cooperation Among Diverse Stakeholders: International Cooperation to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
    The Impact of Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia on Cooperation Among Diverse Stakeholders: International Cooperation to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
    Featured Presentation: Yuto Kitamura
  • Value, Innovation, Entrepreneurship: An Ethical Perspective for Global Education, Research, & Development
    Value, Innovation, Entrepreneurship: An Ethical Perspective for Global Education, Research, & Development
    Featured Presentation: Xu Di
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship at a Liberal Arts University? The Experience of Lingnan University
    Innovation and Entrepreneurship at a Liberal Arts University? The Experience of Lingnan University
    Keynote Presentation: Leonard K Cheng
  • Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Shift to the East
    Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Shift to the East
    Keynote Presentation: Anthony Welch
  • Contemporary Patterns of Global Educational Mobilities: What Might Be the Impact on Innovation and Entrepreneurship?
    Contemporary Patterns of Global Educational Mobilities: What Might Be the Impact on Innovation and Entrepreneurship?
    Featured Presentation: Catherine Montgomery
  • Recalculating Higher Education in the Asia Pacific Region within the Emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution
    Recalculating Higher Education in the Asia Pacific Region within the Emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution
    Featured Presentation: Deane Neubauer

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Keynote Speakers

  • Leonard K Cheng
    Leonard K Cheng
    Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  • Anthony Welch
    Anthony Welch
    University of Sydney, Australia

Featured Speakers

  • Catherine Montgomery
    Catherine Montgomery
    University of Bath, UK
  • Yuto Kitamura
    Yuto Kitamura
    The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Xu Di
    Xu Di
    University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA
  • Deane Neubauer
    Deane Neubauer
    East-West Center, USA

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Advisory Board

  • Joshua Mok
    Joshua Mok
    Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  • Justin Sanders
    Justin Sanders
    Osaka University, Japan
  • Barbara Lockee
    Barbara Lockee
    Virginia Tech, USA
  • Winnie Tang
    Winnie Tang
    Smart City Consortium, Hong Kong
  • Susan Robertson
    Susan Robertson
    University of Cambridge, UK
  • Deane Neubauer
    Deane Neubauer
    East-West Center, USA
  • Bernard Charnwut Chan
    Bernard Charnwut Chan
    Executive Council of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
  • Joseph Haldane
    Joseph Haldane
    The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan

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Review Committee

  • Professor Joshua Mok, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  • Professor Deane Neubauer, East-West Center, USA
  • Dr Jin Jiang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  • Dr Saramma Chandy, University of Mumbai, India
  • Dr Rasha Osman, The Higher Technological Institute, Egypt
  • Dr Despoina Panou, Ionian University, Greece

IAFOR's peer review process, which involves both reciprocal review and the use of Review Committees, is overseen by conference Organising Committee members under the guidance of the Academic Governing Board. Review Committee members are established academics who hold PhDs or other terminal degrees in their fields and who have previous peer review experience.

If you would like to apply to serve on the CHER-HongKong2019 Review Committee, please visit our application page.

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About Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Founded in Guangzhou in 1888 and re-established in Hong Kong in 1967, Lingnan has the longest history among all local tertiary institutions. Its vision is to be a leading Asian liberal arts university with international recognition, distinguished by outstanding teaching, learning, scholarship and community engagement. Lingnan is committed to providing quality whole-person education by combining the best of Chinese and Western liberal arts traditions; nurturing students to achieve all-round excellence and imbuing them with our core values; and encourage faculty and students to contribute to society through original research and knowledge transfer.

On the auspicious occasion of celebrating its golden jubilee, Lingnan has achieved a leap in ranking that puts it in the top 100 Asian universities in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings 2018. In 2015, Lingnan University was also named as one of the top 10 liberal arts college in Asia by Forbes. Lingnan is dedicated to building an international campus and actively establishing strategic collaborations with prominent universities worldwide.

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About the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP)

The Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP) is the Research Consortium co-launched by Lingnan University together with University College London’s (UCL) Institute of Education’s Centre for Global Higher Education in the UK, King’s College London’s Department of International Development, and the University of Bath’s International Centre for Higher Education Management in the UK. APHERP is also supported by leading institutions in Asia: Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University and South China University of Technology in China, Hiroshima University in Japan, and National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan.

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Publications for Higher Education Research

Selected papers after serious academic reviews will be selected for publications by:

  • Journal of Asian Education and Development Studies (Emerald) [Internationally refereed and ESSCI Journal]
  • Springer Book Series on Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance

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The Impact of Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia on Cooperation Among Diverse Stakeholders: International Cooperation to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Featured Presentation: Yuto Kitamura

In recent years, various countries and regions/territories in Asia have experienced remarkable economic growth and Asian societies have undergone a major transformation. While such significant changes are happening in Asia, cooperation beyond national borders is becoming increasingly active in the field of higher education. Particularly in the context of economic development and social change, cooperation with industry and civil society is actively promoted in the higher education field more than ever. Thus, the purpose of this presentation is to examine how internationalization of higher education in Asia influences the cooperation of diverse stakeholders across borders.

In particular, this presentation analyzes what kind of international cooperation in higher education is progressing among countries with different economic levels, such as developed countries, middle-income countries and developing countries in Asia. Then, the presentation examines how entrepreneurship and innovation can be promoted, through such international cooperation with various stakeholders, in the economic, political and social context in which each higher education institution is located. Moreover, this presentation discusses how such international efforts have great significance toward the realization of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Value, Innovation, Entrepreneurship: An Ethical Perspective for Global Education, Research, & Development
Featured Presentation: Xu Di

The twenty-first century, at its very beginning, is exciting already with the intersections of sciences and technology and the booming global commercialism and entrepreneur startups. Self-driving cars and trucks, big data, drones, organ growth, and AI open an era that makes science fictions a reality. This paper will flip the conference theme and examine a field and research that is largely missing in our current education and life – Values. Value is not only in the monetary sense, but as profound human values, ethical research, and global principles. The presentation aims to examine the existing values from the East and the West in search of the insights, challenges, and the directions for humanity as ONE for a prosperous, healthy, and peaceful existence with a focus on goodness for all. Is this a too idealistic Utopian notion? Why is it even necessary? What is the reason for such an approach? How can we do so? The discussion will call for an urgent focus on this core philosophical engagement on value education, research, and application. At the same time, it will highlight the use of innovative and entrepreneurial approaches for global value education and integration.

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship at a Liberal Arts University? The Experience of Lingnan University
Keynote Presentation: Leonard K Cheng

In this talk, I shall argue that innovation and entrepreneurship are a natural direction of development for contemporary liberal arts universities, especially so in the age of the Internet with rapid development in the areas of automation and artificial intelligence. I shall also share the experience of Lingnan University’s effort in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship, including the Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative (LEI), which is supported by a number of units of the University, including its three academic Faculties (Arts, Business, and Social Sciences), Office of Service Learning, Student Services Centre, and some research institutes and programmes.

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Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Shift to the East
Keynote Presentation: Anthony Welch

Since at least the onset of the so-called scientific revolution, innovation has been associated with the West. In fact, this is not accurate, as even a cursory examination of the long history of scientific and technological invention in China reveals. But the current rise of scientific innovation in East and South East Asia (to different degrees, in different systems) is being characterised as a “Shift to the East”. Meanwhile, major Western systems are under-investing in higher education and research, while instituting barriers to the free flow of academic talent.

Supported by significant investment in R&D, and the goal to develop “World Class” universities, the global war for talent is tilting to the East, and in the process reshaping traditional assumptions about the sites of knowledge cores and peripheries.

The analysis charts the contours of this epistemic shift to the East, examines its implications, and assesses the likely future.

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Contemporary Patterns of Global Educational Mobilities: What Might Be the Impact on Innovation and Entrepreneurship?
Featured Presentation: Catherine Montgomery

As global flows of people and knowledge change, research into patterns of educational mobilities could inform approaches to innovation and entrepreneurship. Taking China as an example, research indicates that engagement with marketization and the embracing of neo-liberal values and governance is producing highly “enterprising” mobile subjects, who are skilled in accumulating various forms of capitals (Xu and Montgomery, 2018; Kajanus, 2015; Yan, 2010). However, constraints in domestic or internal educational mobility (such as rural to urban mobility) are also having an impact (Xiang and Shen, 2009).

Focusing particularly on China and Hong Kong, this presentation examines both new and established forms of educational mobility of students, academics and higher education institutions and underlines the importance of considering external higher education mobilities (what happens abroad) in conjunction with internal forms (what happens at home). For large emergent economies such as China, Mexico, South Africa and India, internal higher education equality (and inequality) could influence the future development of external higher education mobilities and have a resultant impact on the long term economy (Marginson, 2017). As internal education mobilities in countries such as China could either exacerbate inequalities or equalise society, the nature of domestic education mobilities could influence capacity building and be hugely influential on innovation and entrepreneurship of the future.

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Recalculating Higher Education in the Asia Pacific Region within the Emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution
Featured Presentation: Deane Neubauer

At the intersection of the three major concepts that orient this conference, it becomes increasingly clear that the relationship between various accepted notions of the two “active causal agents” in play, namely “innovation” and “entrepreneurship” have been given highly variable meanings within the dynamics of an approaching era of artificial intelligence and its many applications. As a result, the notion of “value” becomes highly dependent on the meanings assigned to these two driving forces. This paper seeks to develop some hypotheses that link those differentiated meanings to varied notions of the two driving concepts. It concludes by positing a set of questions that impinge on both accepted and emerging notions of higher education institutions seeking both to further these developments, through their own notions of innovation and entrepreneurship, and create or sustain enduring positions of relevance within the higher education community.

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Leonard K Cheng
Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Biography

Professor Leonard K Cheng is President of Lingnan University, Hong Kong. After his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught at the University of Florida for 12 years. He joined the School of Business and Management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1992, where he served as Head of Economics, Associate Dean, Director of PhD and MBA programmes, Acting Dean and Dean. He joined Lingnan University as President in September 2013.

Professor Cheng’s research interests include applied game theory, market structure, currency crisis, international trade and investment, technological innovation and imitation, and China’s inward and outward foreign direct investment.

Keynote Presentation (2019) | Boya Education in China: Lessons from Liberal Arts Education in the U.S. and Hong Kong

Previous Presentations

Keynote Presentation (2018) | Innovation and Entrepreneurship at a Liberal Arts University? The Experience of Lingnan University
Anthony Welch
University of Sydney, Australia

Biography

Anthony Welch is Professor of Education, at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. A policy specialist, his numerous publications include studies of reforms and policy issues within Australia, Asia, and elsewhere, as well as making theoretical contributions in the field.

He holds an MA, and PhD from the University of London, has lectured in many parts of the world, and has authored or edited more than ten books. His work has been translated into numerous European and Asian languages. Professor Welch has consulted to international agencies such as UNDP, the Commonwealth of Learning and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), governments in Australia, Asia, as well as within Europe, and to US Foundations and institutions; he has project experience in several parts of Asia, notably China and South East Asia, particularly regarding higher education reforms.

A Fulbright New Century Scholar, for 2007-8 (Theme: Access and Equity in Higher Education), and DAAD Scholar, he has been a Visiting Professor in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Hong Kong and Malaysia. In 2008, he delivered the Joseph Lauwerys Lecture, at the Comparative Education Society of Europe (CESE), in Athens. He led an Australian Research Council Grant for a project on the Chinese Knowledge Diaspora, and his Consultancy roles include the major Asian Development Bank (ADB) project, Higher Education in Dynamic Asia, and Higher Education Consultant (ADB) for the Comprehensive Education Sector Review (CESR), Myanmar, 2012-13. He has contributed to the high-level policy symposium, Beijing Forum, and holds the title of Professor and PhD Supervisor at a major Chinese university. In 2015 he was selected as Haiwai Mingshi (Distinguished Foreign Scholar) by China’s national agency SAFEA (State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs).

Keynote Presentation (2018) | Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Shift to the East

Selected Recent Books

Welch, A., (Ed.). (2005) The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession. Springer.
Welch, A., et al. (2017). Education, Change and Society, (4th revised edition). Oxford.
Jarvis, D. and Welch, A., (Eds.). (2011). ASEAN Industries and the Challenge from China. London, Palgrave. (In Press).
Welch, A., (2011). Higher Education in South East Asia. Blurring Borders, Changing Balance. Public and Private. London, Routledge.
Counting the Cost. Higher Education for Inclusive Growth in Asia. Manila ADB.

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Catherine Montgomery
University of Bath, UK

Biography

Catherine Montgomery is Professor of International Higher Education in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. Catherine’s research focuses on internationalisation of higher education and she has a particular interest in transnational higher education in China and East Asia. Catherine’s recent work focuses on international higher education mobilities, mainly with reference to flows of international students and considers what this can tell us about the changing landscapes of global higher education.

Catherine has also worked on international and comparative research projects in Denmark, Mexico and Vietnam including a British Council project focusing on Internationalisation strategy in Vietnam, an ESRC funded project looking at autonomy and democracy in education entitled Freedom to Learn and a British Council project researching the role of dialogic STEM education in addressing social and cultural disadvantage in Mexico and the UK.

Catherine has recently been appointed to the role of Academic Director of International Partnerships at the University of Bath. In this new role, she is leading the strategic development, coordination and delivery of worldwide partnerships and supporting faculties and departments in identifying, developing and maintaining research, teaching and knowledge-exchange links and partnerships with institutions overseas.

Other indicators of esteem include a visiting professorship at the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, a UK National Teaching Fellowship (2010) and frequent invitations to give keynotes, plenary and papers on international education at national and international educational conferences and for government policy groups. Catherine has strong and active collaborative research links with high ranking universities in China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Mexico.

Featured Presentation (2018) | Contemporary Patterns of Global Educational Mobilities: What Might Be the Impact on Innovation and Entrepreneurship?
Yuto Kitamura
The University of Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Yuto Kitamura is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He worked as Assistant Education Specialist in the Education Sector of UNESCO in Paris and taught as Associate Professor at Nagoya and Sophia Universities, both in Japan. Yuto Kitamura was a Fulbright Scholar at the George Washington University and Visiting Professor at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. He is currently Special Advisor to the Rector at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. He is also an Associate Member of the Science Council of Japan (i.e., National Academy) and the Member of the Board of Education of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

He is specialised in comparative education and has been conducting research extensively on the education policies of developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia. Some of his research themes are: the internationalisation of higher education in Asia; higher education reforms and the academic profession in Cambodia; and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Asia. His recent publications include: The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia: Cases of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (co-editor, Springer, 2009), Emerging International Dimensions of East Asian Higher Education (co-editor, Springer, 2014) and The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia (co-editor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Featured Presentation (2018) | The Impact of Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia on Cooperation Among Diverse Stakeholders: International Cooperation to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Xu Di
University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA

Biography

Xu Di (许笛) is a professor in the department of Education Foundations, College of Education, University of Hawai’i-Mānoa. She is a member of the board of examiners for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE, now Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation [CAEP]), which has provided national accreditation for teacher education programs in the United States since 2007. Her recent publications focus on bridging Eastern and Western philosophy for educational practices and include Chinese Philosophy on Teaching & Learning: Xueji《学记》 in the Twenty-First Century (2016), The Wisdom from the East: A Holistic Theory and Practice of Health and Wellness (2013), Spiritual Heritage and Education Today (2013), Taoism: Origin, Essence, and Practice (2013), and A Reading of Lao Zi for Educational Philosophers Today (2012). In addition, she published A Comparison of the Educational Ideas and Practices of John Dewey and Mao Zedong in China (1992) and various chapters and articles on teacher education, educational foundations, multicultural education, international education, and ESL education. She worked as an international consultant in teacher education and educational reforms in Central Asia and Africa for the World Bank in 2002 and 2001. She served on the Hawai’i Teacher Standard Board (2005–2008) and as the president of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) Hawai’i Chapter as well as Hawai’i state representative (2006–2008). She was a visiting scholar and research associate at the Philosophy of Educational Research Center at Harvard University (1999–2000), a visiting professor in Peking University (2015, 2011, 2009, and 1997) and in Renmin University (2012, 2014, and 2016), and an exchange professor at National Kaohsiung University in Taiwan (1998). She served as manuscript editor as well as editorial board member for Harvard Educational Review during 1988–1990. She was honored in Who’s Who among American Teachers in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2008.

Featured Presentation (2018) | Value, Innovation, Entrepreneurship: An Ethical Perspective for Global Education, Research, & Development
Deane Neubauer
East-West Center, USA

Biography

Deane Neubauer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He currently also serves as the Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP) which conducts a wide range of policy-focused research with a special focus on higher education. He is also currently an adjunct fellow of the East-West Center, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Deane holds a BA from the University of California, Riverside, and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University. Over the course of his career he has focused on a variety of political and policy areas including democratic theory, public policy, elections and various policy foci, including education, health, agriculture and communication. He has held a wide variety of administrative positions at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and the 10 campus University of Hawaii system. He also has over twenty-years experience in US-oriented quality assurance.

Keynote Presentation (2019) | Engaging the Forces Propelling the Repurposing of Higher Education

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Featured Presentation (2018) | Recalculating Higher Education in the Asia Pacific Region within the Emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution
Joshua Mok
Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Biography

Professor Joshua Mok Ka-ho is the Vice-President and concurrently Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of Lingnan University. Before joining Lingnan, he was the Vice President (Research and Development) and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of The Hong Kong Institute of Education, and the Associate Dean and Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, Professor Mok was appointed as the Founding Chair Professor in East Asian Studies and established the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Professor Mok is no narrow disciplinary specialist but has worked creatively across the academic worlds of sociology, political science, and public and social policy while building up his wide knowledge of China and the region. Professor Mok completed his undergraduate studies in Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong in 1989, and received an MPhil and PhD in Sociology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1991 and The London School of Economics and Political Science in 1994 respectively.

In addition, Professor Mok has published extensively in the fields of comparative education policy, comparative development and policy studies, and social development in contemporary China and East Asia. In particular, he has contributed to the field of social change and education policy in a variety of ways, not the least of which has been his leadership and entrepreneurial approach to the organisation of the field. His recent published works have focused on comparative social development and social policy responses in the Greater China region and East Asia. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian Public Policy (London: Routledge) and Asian Education and Development Studies (Emerald) as well as a Book Series Editor for Routledge and Springer.

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Justin Sanders
Osaka University, Japan

Biography

Justin Sanders has over 14 years of experience in the international and higher education sectors. Most recently he served as a Global Recognition Manager for the International Baccalaureate (IB), working with universities and higher education systems around the world to develop their admissions policies. Prior, he served as Research Specialist for the IB, overseeing a wide variety of educational research projects in diverse national settings. Before joining the IB he spent several years supporting good governance in community colleges around the United States with the Association of Community College Trustees, as well as two years as an education volunteer in Azerbaijan with the US Peace Corps. He received an MA in International Education from the George Washington University, and is in his final year of a PhD at Osaka University, Japan, examining the internationalisation of national universities in East Asia.

Barbara Lockee
Virginia Tech, USA

Biography

Dr Barbara Lockee is Professor of Instructional Design and Technology at Virginia Tech, USA, where she is also Associate Director of the School of Education and Associate Director of Educational Research and Outreach. She teaches courses in instructional design, message design, and distance education. Her research interests focus on instructional design issues related to technology-mediated learning. She has published more than 80 papers in academic journals, conferences and books, and has presented her scholarly work at over 90 national and international conferences.

Dr Lockee is Immediate Past President of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, an international professional organisation for educational technology researchers and practitioners. She earned her PhD in 1996 from Virginia Tech in Curriculum and Instruction (Instructional Technology), MA in 1991 from Appalachian State University in Curriculum and Instruction (Educational Media), and BA in 1986 from Appalachian State University in Communication Arts.

Professor Barbara Lockee is a Vice-President of IAFOR. She is Chair of the Education & Language Learning division of the International Academic Advisory Board.

Winnie Tang
Smart City Consortium, Hong Kong

Biography

Dr Winnie Tang JP is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. She is one of the locally-bred IT entrepreneurs of Hong Kong. In the 1990s, Dr Tang founded Esri China (Hong Kong) Limited to develop and promote Geographic Information System (GIS) software and solutions.

Dr Tang is also the Founder and Honorary President of Smart City Consortium. Over the years, she has been actively advocating the use of technology and sharing her views regarding the ICT industry, eHealth, environmental conservation, entrepreneurship and smart city through her services in government and non-government organisations in Hong Kong.

In recognition of Dr Tang's outstanding contributions to society, she was recognised as one the Distinguished Alumni by the Faculty of Science of HKU in 2009 and as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the year by the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong (JCIHK) in 2006. Dr Tang also received the Young Achiever of the Year in the Women of Influence Award presented by the American Chamber of Commerce in 2004.

Susan Robertson
University of Cambridge, UK

Biography

Susan Robertson is Professor of Sociology of Education, the Faculty of Education, at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this, Susan was Professor at the University of Bristol. Her area of expertise is on transformations of the state, education policy, region building and global processes. Susan is founding editor of the journal Globalisation, Societies and Education, and currently Convenor of the research cluster, Culture, Politics and Global Justice at Cambridge. Susan’s recent publications include work on platform capitalism and higher education, market-making and trade agreements and their relationship to education governance.

Deane Neubauer
East-West Center, USA

Biography

Deane Neubauer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He currently also serves as the Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP) which conducts a wide range of policy-focused research with a special focus on higher education. He is also currently an adjunct fellow of the East-West Center, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Deane holds a BA from the University of California, Riverside, and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University. Over the course of his career he has focused on a variety of political and policy areas including democratic theory, public policy, elections and various policy foci, including education, health, agriculture and communication. He has held a wide variety of administrative positions at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and the 10 campus University of Hawaii system. He also has over twenty-years experience in US-oriented quality assurance.

Keynote Presentation (2019) | Engaging the Forces Propelling the Repurposing of Higher Education

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Featured Presentation (2018) | Recalculating Higher Education in the Asia Pacific Region within the Emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution
Bernard Charnwut Chan
Executive Council of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong

Biography

Mr Chan is President of Asia Financial Holdings Limited and Asia Insurance Company Limited. He is the Chairperson of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, Chairman of Hong Kong Palace Museum Ltd., Chairman of the Steering Committee on Restored Landfill Revitalisation Funding Scheme and Chairman of the Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food. He is also a Hong Kong Deputy to the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China and a board member of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority. He previously served as a Legislative Council Member as well as Chairman of the Council of Lingnan University, the Council for Sustainable Development, the Antiquities Advisory Board, the Advisory Committee on Revitalisation of Historic Buildings and the Standing Committee on Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service. Mr Chan was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star in 2006.

Joseph Haldane
The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan

Biography

Joseph Haldane is the Chairman and CEO of IAFOR. He is responsible for devising strategy, setting policies, forging institutional partnerships, implementing projects, and overseeing the organisation’s business and academic operations, including research, publications and events.

Dr Haldane holds a PhD from the University of London in 19th-century French Studies, and has had full-time faculty positions at the University of Paris XII Paris-Est Créteil (France), Sciences Po Paris (France), and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan), as well as visiting positions at the French Press Institute in the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (France), The School of Journalism at Sciences Po Paris (France), and the School of Journalism at Moscow State University (Russia).

Dr Haldane’s current research concentrates on post-war and contemporary politics and international affairs, and since 2015 he has been a Guest Professor at The Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, where he teaches on the postgraduate Global Governance Course, and Co-Director of the OSIPP-IAFOR Research Centre, an interdisciplinary think tank situated within Osaka University.

A Member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network for Global Governance, Dr Haldane is also a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade (Serbia), a Visiting Professor at the School of Business at Doshisha University (Japan), and a Member of the International Advisory Council of the Department of Educational Foundations at the College of Education of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (USA).

From 2012 to 2014, Dr Haldane served as Treasurer of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (Chubu Region) and he is currently a Trustee of the HOPE International Development Agency (Japan). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2012, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2015.