Global Advisory Committee

Dr Nigel Healey is Professor of International Higher Education and Vice President (Global and Community Engagement) at the University of Limerick. He is currently serving as Interim Provost and Deputy President. Prior to his appointment at the University of Limerick in April 2020, he held senior academic positions at Fiji National University, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Canterbury and Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as teaching positions at the University of Leicester and Leeds Beckett University.

Dr Healey has served as an economic policy advisor to the prime minister of Belarus and the deputy minister of economy of the Russian Federation and managed a number of multinational research and economic development projects in Europe and Asia. His current research interests are in the internationalization of higher education, transnational education and higher education policy and management.

PRESENT POSITIONS

Rector. Universidad del Caribe (UNICARIBE). Since February 2023.

Emeritus Professor in Nuclear Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)

President of the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE). Since March 2023.

Member of the Expert Committee of the Spanish Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2020-2024)

President of Madrid Industrial Engineering Association. Since November 2022.

PAST POSITIONS

Dean of College of Industrial Engineering at UPM (April 2014 – April 2018)

Vice-Rector for Academic Degrees and Doctorate at UPM (2012-2014)

Vice–Rector for Academic Management and Professors at UPM (2004-2012)

President of the European Nuclear Society (ENS) (January 2020 – December 2021)

Vice-President of ENEN (2009- 2012)

Member of the Scientific Technical Committee of Euratom (2014- 2018)

Expert Member of the International Assessment of the Discipline of Nuclear Science and Technology. Harbin Engineering University (R.P. of China). (July 2019)

INVITED PROFESSOR

Visiting and invited professor in more than 20 Universities and Research Centers as:

Harbin Engineering University (R.P. China), 2020

University of Florida (USA). (June- August 1992)

University of Nevada. Reno (USA). (September 2000)

Norhwersten Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi´an (China). (July 2018)

Polytechnical University of Saint Petersburg (Rusia). (July 2018 and July 2019)

Instituto Balseiro (Argentina) (September-November 2019)

Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (Chile) (December 2019)

Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (from January to March 2020)

Tec Monterrey (Mexico) (October 2015)

Instituto Politécnico Nacional (México) (October 2015)

Universidad Autónoma (México) (March 2017)

Purdue University (USA)  (December 2016)

Tongi University (China) (December 2017)

Beihang University (China) (December 2017) (October 2018)

Xi´an Jiaotong (China) (October 2018) (April 2019)

Harbin Engineering University (April 2019)

OCDE-NEA Data Bank. Paris (September-November 1981)

Institute Lebedev. Academy of Sciences URSS, Russia. (December 1985)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. (September 1985)

Ispra Research Centre (Euratom). Italy. (November 1986)

Los Alamos National Laboratory, EEUU. (September 1987, November 1993)

Livermore National Laboratory. EEUU. (November 1989, October 1992)

INP kfk Karlsruhe. Germany. (July-August 1995)

CEA Limeil Valenton. France. (May 1996, May 1997, April 1998)

PUBLISHED PAPERS & SPEAKER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Over more than 150 published papers in journals and about 200 papers at International Conferences.