QS Higher Ed Summit: Asia Pacific 2023

Professor Edward Peck joined Nottingham Trent University as Vice-Chancellor in August 2014. The university educates around 40,000 students from a wide range of backgrounds and employs circa 5,000 staff across six campuses. Previously, he worked at the University of Birmingham as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Social Sciences. His academic interests encompassed public policy and organisational leadership; he is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

Professor Peck is Deputy Chair of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). He was a member of the UK Government’s Post-18 Fees and Funding – aka Augar – Review Panel. In May 2022 he was appointed as the Department for Education’s initial Higher Education Student Support Champion and is currently chairing the Ministerial Taskforce on Student Mental Health.

In July 2020 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire and was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours List for Services to Higher Education.

Si-Zhao Joe Qin, Ph.D., is President of Lingnan University in Hong Kong and was Acting Dean and Chair Professor of Data Science at City University of Hong Kong. He served on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and University of Southern California (USC) for 24 years. Qin is the recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Northrop Grumman Best Teaching Award at USC Viterbi School of Engineering, IEEE CSS Transition to Practice Award, AIChE CAST Computing Award, and IFAC Best Paper Prize. He holds over a dozen U.S. patents that have been commercially practiced by four U.S. companies. He has published around 400 peer-reviewed journal or conference articles, book chapters, and plenary, keynote, or regular conference talks, and has a SCOPUS h-index of 73. Qin is a Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors, AIChE, IEEE, and International Federation of Automatic Control.

Professor Aaron Thean is Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also Director of the National Research Foundation’s SHINE centre, a next-generation microelectronics research facility, and the A*STAR SIMTech–NUS Joint Laboratory for Large-Area Flexible Hybrid Electronics.

Aaron received multiple accolades in recognition of his research excellence in the microelectronics field, including the 2014 Compound Semiconductor Industry Innovation Award for his research group’s breakthrough work in III-V finFETs and the 2001 Gregory Stillman Semiconductor Research Award for his PhD work. In 2016, he joined NUS under the prestigious Returning Singapore Scientists scheme. In 2018, he was the Director of Applied Materials-NUS Corporate Laboratory for Advanced Materials. He served as Dean of NUS Faculty of Engineering from 2019 and was the Founding Dean of NUS College of Design and Engineering from 2022 to 2023. Known for his translational research in state-of-the-art semiconductor technologies, Aaron also holds more than 50 US patents.

Before joining NUS, he was Vice President of Logic Technologies at IMEC, where he forged partnerships with the industry’s foremost companies such as Intel, Apple and Samsung, and directed R&D operations in areas such as materials research, process technology and system-technology co-design.

Professor Shoichiro Iwakiri was born in 1959 in Japan. He acquired his master’s degree in literature from the University of Tokyo Graduate School, and DEA from the Université Paris 7.

His specialty is modern and contemporary French poetry and drama. His research is focused especially on Baudelaire (19^th century French poet). He published a monography on him (Chrysalis and Imago : poetics of Baudelaire, Shinsui Editions, Japan, 2006, 382 pages (in Japanese)) and many refereed articles on poetry, drama and literature in general.

He has translated more than 20 French classic and contemporary plays from Racine to Yasmina Reza, and is also a poet.

He started teaching at ICU as assistant professor in 1996 and became professor in 2007.

Prior to becoming President in 2020, he was Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Director of the Admissions Center and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

Shalendra D. Sharma is the Lee Shau Kee Foundation Chair Professor of Political Science. A political-economist by training, Sharma is the author of: Prosperity with Inequality: A Comparative Political Economy of the United States, China and India (New York: Cambridge University Press 2018); Global Financial Contagion: The Great Recession and the World Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013); China and India in the Age of Globalization (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), which was the winner of the 2010 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award; Achieving Economic Development in the Era of Globalization (Routledge, 2007); The Asian Financial Crisis: Meltdown, Reform and Recovery (Manchester University Press, 2003); Democracy and Development in India (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999), which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 1999; and editor of Asia in the New Millennium: Geopolitics, Security and Foreign Policy (Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, 2000).

Professor Michael K. Hui obtained his BBA (First Class Honors) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 1980, his CAAE from IAE Aix-en-Provence in 1983, and his PhD from London Business School in 1988. Prior to joining the University of Macau, Professor Hui was Head of the Department of Marketing and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Marketing at the CUHK. Professor Hui joined the CUHK as an Associate Professor in 1996 after holding academic appointments at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1994–1996) and Concordia University in Canada (1989–1996). At the CUHK, he was promoted to the rank of Professor in 1999 and to the rank of Chair Professor in 2004. Concurrent with his professorial appointments, Professor Hui has also served as Associate Dean and Director of BBA programme of the Faculty of Business Administration (1999–2002), Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (2004–2008), and Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President (2009–2017) during his twenty-three years of services at the CUHK.

Professor Hui’s teaching and research interests include services marketing, consumer behavior, and cross-cultural marketing. His articles have appeared in many top-ranked journals, including, among others, the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. One of his early papers (Hui and Bateson, 1991) has been widely recognized as the first services marketing paper published by the Journal of Consumer Research, one of the top journals in the field of marketing. Another paper, co-authored by Professor Hui and three colleagues (Hui, Zhao, Fan, and Au, 2004) is the first ever article published by the Journal of Consumer Research by an author who is affiliated with a business school in Mainland China. He is currently an Editorial Review Board member of the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, and Journal of Business Research. After Professor Hui was appointed an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Retailing in 2003, on three occasions he was awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award.

Professor Hui has taught in every major business program including the BBA, MBA, EMBA and PhD. The quality of his teaching is evidenced by the number of teaching awards he won at the CUHK, such as the first Outstanding Teacher Award presented by the CUHK Business School in 2003 and the campus-wide Vice-Chancellor Exemplary Teaching Award in 2004.

Professor Hui has rendered consultancy and training services to many public and private organizations in Hong Kong and beyond. He is also active in community services and is currently the chairperson of the Consumer Relations Panel appointed by the Tourism Commission of HKSAR, a member of the Board of Governors of Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, and a member of the Insurance Appeals Tribunal of Hong Kong. Between 2012 and 2017, he served as a member of the Hong Kong Consumer Council and spokesperson of Choice magazine, the Council’s flagship publication. In 2017, he was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Hong Kong SAR Government for his contributions to the local community, especially in the area of consumer education and protection.

Chulathida Chomchai is a Professor of Pediatrics and is the dean of Mahidol University International College since October 2018 – present. She is also an adjunct instructor in Pediatrics and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital since 2010-present. Prof. Chulathida served as MUIC-SGU Doctor of Medicine Pathway Liaison since 2012-present and assistant dean for research from 2010-2014.

Tim Dunne is Provost & Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey.  In collaboration with the Executive Deans and Institute Directors, he has responsibility for the institution’s academic performance.  Additionally, he has been the change lead in the research and innovation portfolio, and currently has line-management of the Surrey’s on-line learning strategy.  Prior to his move to Surrey, Tim had a number of leadership roles at The University of Queensland (UQ), including Deputy Provost.  He is recognised for his research on human rights protection and foreign policy-making in a changing world order.  He has written and co-edited fourteen books, including Terror in our Time (2012), The Globalization of International Society (2017), and The Rise of the International (2023 in press).  He is an elected Fellow of the Academic of Social Sciences, Australia and holds an Emeritus Professorship at The University of Queensland.

Satoshi INABA was born in Saitama, Japan in 1969. He received Bachelor’s degree (1993), Master’s degree (1995), and Ph.D. (1999) in Applied Physics from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He spent three years (1999-2002) as a JSPS overseas research fellow and a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Institution of Washington, and three years (2002-2005) as a JSPS Research Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille. He joined the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University in 2005, where he is now a Professor and the Dean of the school. His prime research interest has been in the formation of stars and planets. His recent interests include chemical reactions in aqueous solution and the origin of life. 

Mingming Leng is the Chair Professor of Computing and Decision Sciences and the Dean of the Faculty of Business. He also served the University as the Head of Department of Computing and Decision Sciences in August 2014–August 2017, the Founding Director of the Doctor of Business Administration in Global Digital Economy and Governance Programme (January–August 2021), and the Founding Director of the Master of Science Programme in eBusiness and Supply Chain management at Lingnan University (August 2015–August 2017).

Professor Leng holds a Ph.D. degree in Management Science/System from McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business, Canada. His research interests are centered on game theory (with a focus on cooperative game theory), operations and supply chain management, and interface between operations and other disciplines. Professor Leng has published over 50 papers in top-tier or highly-respected journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, IISE Transactions, and others. Moreover, he has obtained a number of General Research Fund (GRF) grants from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

Professor Leng is an RGC Council member and also serves the RGC Business Studies Panel (Joint Research Schemes) as a panel member. He has contributed to the National Natural Science Foundation of China as an assessor for a variety of research grants schemes. Professor Leng is also a member in the Editorial Review Board of Production and Operations Management. In addition to academic experiences, he has five years working experience in industry.

Professor Abhi Veerakumarasivam is a geneticist, educator and science communicator. Before taking on his current role as the Provost of Sunway University, he was the Dean of the School of Medical and Life Sciences. His research in genetics involves the elucidation of components of the regulatory pathways that drive tumour recurrence and invasion.

He also currently chairs the International Network for Government Science Advice Asia that aims to support the use of scientific evidence in informing policy at all levels of government; including pandemic/crises responses. He also co-chairs the ASEAN Young Scientists Network that represents top young scientists in the region who not only demonstrate academic excellence but also contribute towards nation-building through STEM promotion and advocacy. He sits on various national and regional science and educational policy committees and has co-authored various policy papers and reports. He co-initiated and led Malaysia’s first nationwide programme on Responsible Conduct of Research.

Professor William Hayward is Chair Professor of Psychology and Dean of Social Sciences at Lingnan University. He has a BA and MA from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD in Psychology from Yale University. He has held academic positions at the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Auckland, and the University of Wollongong. Professor Hayward’s research focuses on how we achieve understanding of the world around us through our use of visual information; in particular, he measures both behaviour and neural activity in response to faces and objects, and to shifts of visual attention. He is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychology and was formerly the Associate Editor of Visual Cognition. His research has been published in leading international journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Science, Cerebral Cortex, Nature Neuroscience, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Wan Kamal Mujani has 30 years of experience in academic fields such as History and Islamic Civilization, Muslim Historiography and Arabic Texts and Sources in Islamic History. His main research interest has been in the areas of Islamic Historiography and Economic History in the Middle East, Levant & Mediterranean. Wan Kamal received a degree (B.A Hons.) from al-Azhar (Egypt), a M.A from The National University of Malaysia and a Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Currently, he is actively conducting research on Muslim Contemporaries such as Muslim Middle Class, Dinar Coins and Currency, Extremism and Terrorism, Moderation/Wasatiyyah, The Bottom 40, Arab Spring, Waqf for Higher Education, Federalism in Malaysia, Sharia Index, Sustainable Well-being Society and Crypto Currency.

Professor Dato’ Dr. Norazah Mohd. Nordin is currently a Deputy Vice Chancellor of Industrial Network and Community Affairs and she was the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Her research areas include Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC), Mobile Learning, ICT in Lifelong Learning, and Instructional Design in Online Learning and Futuristic Learning. Her current projects are the development of MOOCs, Learning Design in the 4th Industrial Revolution, the 4IR Cross-Creative Learning Innovation for Autism and Learning Spaces. She is an active member of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Lifelong Learning Hub, representing Malaysia for Research Network 1, ICT Culture. Presently, she is an Editorial Board Member of The Internet and Higher Education, an Elsevier Journal, a Q1 in the Web of Science.

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.

Professor Joshua Mok Ka-ho is the Vice-President and concurrently Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of Lingnan University. 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. He 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. 

Dr. Marcia B. France earned her S.B. in chemistry from MIT, where she did research under 2001 and 2022 Nobel Laureate K. Barry Sharpless, and her M.S. in chemistry from Yale University. She was a National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Caltech, where she earned her Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1995. Her work on the development of ruthenium catalysts for olefin metathesis was cited in the 2005 Nobel Prize Address by her research mentor, Robert H. Grubbs.

She joined Duke Kunshan University in August 2018 as the inaugural Dean of Undergraduate Studies. She is responsible for the strategic development of undergraduate academic programs at DKU, developing and implementing undergraduate academic policies and procedures, undergraduate academic advising, undergraduate program assessment, and Global Education.  Previously, Dr. France was the John T. Herwick, M.D. Professor of Chemistry at Washington and Lee University, where she also served as Associate Dean and Associate Provost.

Kirsten’s teams work across Australia and around the world to connect talented students with Sydney, and to advocate for the impact and benefit of the University on the communities it serves. Together they are working on delivering the University’s 2032 ambition, outlined in its ten-year strategy, to ensure that the work of the University is more compelling, and more important to society, than at any other time in its history.

Prior to joining the University, Kirsten held senior positions in government and the not-for-profit sector, including at the National Heart Foundation, as Chief of Staff to a federal minister, and Deputy Director of Communications to the Premier of New South Wales.

Datuk Dr Habibah Abdul Rahim is currently Director at the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Secretariat. She is also Honourary Fellow at MASA Institute, Senior Advisor of Edvolution, and Board Member of Teach for Malaysia Foundation and Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka.

Datuk Habibah is the former Director General of Education Malaysia and has served the Ministry of Education Malaysia for more than 34 years before retiring on 6 April 2021. She began her career as a secondary school teacher and among posts held are the Head of the Delivery Management Office, Executive Director of the Education Performance and Delivery Unit, Director of the Educational Planning and Research Division, and Deputy Director General of Education (Policy and Curriculum). She has extensive experience in policy development, macro planning, programme implementation and evaluation. She played an instrumental role in the development of the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025, Education Development Master Plan 2006-2010 and Education Development 2001-2010.

Her publications (with other authors) include: 21st Century Competencies and Structural Education Reform, in APEC 2018 Report on Education and Economic Development (2019); Model, Instruments and Unity Index and their Impact on the Unity Policy, in Creative Education 2019, 10(12); and Formulating Policies for Gender-Responsive STEM Education, in IBE-UNESCO (2017), A Resource Pack for Gender-Responsive STEM Education.

Heather Hamilton the Executive Director for the Council For Advancement and Support of Education in Asia Pacific and a global leader in education advancement. With a career spanning three decades she has worked with and advised organisations in education (secondary and higher education), member associations, not for profit, and corporate sectors, on managing stakeholder relationships, reputation, and strategic planning. As a Vincent Fairfax Fellow, Heather is committed to ethical leadership and making an impact in our communities.

While working throughout Asia Pacific and Canada, Heather developed expertise in education related international and local stakeholder relations including industry and research partnerships, community relations, volunteer leadership management, fundraising, marketing, communications, and change management. 

Heather has served on various boards and committees including St Hilda’s Girls School Foundation in Perth, Western Australia and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Commission. She has been a Chair for four CASE Asia Pacific conferences, a conference host, a regular speaker for masterclasses, and a judge for the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards.

Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technology at UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London. Formerly: Head of the e-Learning Strategy Unit at the government’s Department for Education and Skills; Pro-Vice-Chancellor Learning Technology and Teaching at the Open University. Previously served on: the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for IT in Education, Moscow; Visiting Committee on IT, Harvard University; currently on McGraw-Hill Editorial Advisory Board. Researching: ‘The Transformational Potential of MOOCs’ (Centre for Global HE, UCL-Oxford); ‘Future Education’ (RELIEF Centre, UCL-IGP); the Learning Designer tool. Leading the Blended and Online Learning Design course, free and open to all; adaptive games for low numeracy . Currently supervising MA and doctoral students researching educational technology. Recent book: Teaching as a Design Science, Routledge. Lifetime Contribution Award, E-Assessment Association; Honorary Life Membership for Association for Learning Technology and Club Fondation Universitaire, Belgium; Honorary Fellow UCL. Named in top 2% world scientists, Stanford University Jan 2022.

As the Executive Director of the Malaysian-American Commission of Educational Exchange his mandate is to “Build Bridges and Transform Lives” through what he calls “Educational Diplomacy” between the United States and Malaysia, primarily through the management of the prestigious William J. Fulbright Scholarship program. Curtis has an extensive background in Government Relations and Public Affairs working on Capitol Hill for a member of Congress  as well as a Presidential Appointment during the Obama Administration.

Serving abroad, Curtis promoted U.S. businesses, educational institutions, American history and culture as the Senior Manager of @america, the U.S. Department of State’s one of a kind culture center in Jakarta, Indonesia from 2011-2012 and 2016-2020 as well as chairing the AmCham Indonesia Young Professionals Committee while living in Jakarta.

Curtis is a graduate of Morehouse College and American University with degrees in both business and public administration.

Prof Ngai Pun is a Chair Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. She was honored as the winner of the C. Wright Mills Award for her first book Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (2005), which has been translated into French and Chinese. Her co-authored book, Dying for iPhone: Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers (2020) has also been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Chinese. She is the sole author of Migrant Labor in China: Post Socialist Transformation (2016, Polity Press), editor of seven book volumes in Chinese and English. She has published widely in leading international journals such as positions, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Dialectical Anthropology, Mobilities, Sociology, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Sociological Review, Work, Employment and Society, Modern China, China Quarterly and China Journal, etc.

Jazreel first joined the British Council in June 2004 where she led on the UK’s largest education marketing and partnership initiatives in mainland China.

Prior to that, Jazreel Goh worked in various organisations in Malaysia, Australia, as well as Hong Kong in the areas of brand management, corporate planning and investment, international education consultancy, as well as in intellectual property licensing.

In 2011 she set up the British Council’s Education Intelligence Unit – the first e-marketing platform dedicated to international education research for the industry globally. In 2013, she led the development and launched the UK’s flagship outward mobility programme – Generation UK which has since led to a 104% growth in British students to China. During her tenure, the UK became one of the largest providers of transnational education in China and the first country to initiate a multi-lateral education collaboration platform bringing together institutional partners from UK, China, Sub-Saharan Africa and ASEAN countries on co-funded projects.

Jazreel Goh was born in Malaysia and after completing her secondary school in Malaysia and senior secondary school in Singapore, left for further studies in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University and was awarded the Equity and Merit Scholarship by the Australian Government to undertake her Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics. She was awarded an MBE in 2017 for her services to UK education in China.

Jazreel returned to Malaysia in September 2020 to take up the roles as Director Malaysia and Head of East Asia Insights Hub for the British Council. She was listed as one of the top 50 Voices in the Australia-ASEAN international education sector by The PIE Insider Leadership Digest 2023.

Dr. GAO, Shang is the Regional Director for Global Education Skills to Jobs team, Asia Pacific and Japan for Amazon Web Services (AWS). She leads a team focused on driving cloud and technology adoption in the education sector through the education systems. She is responsible for implementing skilling and education programs by collaborating with academic institutions and governments to address the digital skills gap in the region and build the future of workforce that meets industry demand.

Dr. Gao has spent majority of her career in education development. Prior to AWS, she was an Education Economist at both the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank Group (WBG). As an Economist, her primarily focus was on designing and implementing projects that focused on systematic improvement for education and national education reforms in Asia and Sub- Saharan Africa Regions. Her projects at ADB and WBG covered primary, secondary, TEVT (Technical Education and Vocational Training), and higher education sectors.

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.

Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Quality Management Office, chair of the IE Department and dean of the College of Engineering of Lyceum of the Philippines-Laguna, and as senior manager of INTEL Philippines.

Engr. Ong is a Professional Industrial Engineer and an ASEAN Engineer. He was the very first to join the ASEAN Engineer registry in 2012 from the UST Faculty of Engineering. The recognition is given to engineers in the Southeast Asian region who have achieved “operational excellence in the field of engineering.”

With his more than two decades of accomplishment-laden experience in several multinational manufacturing companies by assuming various senior and technical management positions, Engr. Ong successfully turned around every manufacturing arena into delivering the necessary factory systems to enable World Class Manufacturing. His excellent leadership efforts won for him several recognitions/awards. One of his notable achievements, when he was named as INTEL Key Employee in Year 2000 in recognition of his valuable services and contributions to INTEL’s operation. This is Intel’s highest recognition award given to a deserving and consistently rated outstanding employee. INTEL Philippines was the nation’s leading exporter for many years past.

With his strong background in various key areas of expertise, he is the prime mover in the successful ISO Certification of UST. He is being considered to be a high caliber consultant that can be tapped in both the industry and academia. Moreover, Engr. Ong crafted a framework of the UST’s EQMS (Educational Quality Management System) for excellence which became his research paper as accepted in two international conferences in the same year entitled, “An Integrated Framework: Unifying Diverse Perspectives in EQMS” and turnedout in reality when UST earned the distinction of being the first and only university in the Philippines with the four-star rating in QS Stars Rating awarded in 2015 and 2017. Now, UST becomes first and only Philippine university with five stars QS rating. Moreover, four of his research papers have been accepted into International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, which is a Q3 Journal under SCIMAGO-SCOPUS Rankings.

Engr. Ong is currently the only Filipino sitting as a member of the InternationalAcademic Advisory Committee of Quacquarelli-Symonds (QS) since 2015. Simultaneously, he has been chosen as the chair of the parallel sessions committee under the different tracks in every QS International Conference and Exhibit annual events. Several international universities have invited him to sit as one of their advisory board members at their international conferences.

Engr. Ong holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering degree from the University of the Philippines-Diliman where he was a consistent UPCE-PCIERD scholar and a BSIE degree from the MAPUA Institute of Technology.

Pei-Shan Tsai, PhD, RN, isa distinguished professor at Taipei Medical University College of Nursing. Her research focuses on the link between stress‐response systems and chronic illnesses and outcomes of nursing care of patients with stress‐related illnesses. Having published morethan 130 peer-reviewed articles in medical, psychology, and nursing journals, Tsai is noted for bringing researchers from different fields together to collaborate on research projects that have important clinical and policymaking implications. In her capacity as Dean of TMU Office of Global Engagement, she leads a team of professionals and academics to assist international exchange of people and ideas, facilitate collaboration in education and research, and promote the institution’s achievements. Working closely with the University’s Senior Leadership Team, Tsai provides strategic advice and practical solutions to the institution’s vision for international development. She is an active participant in international networks and a member of the QS Academic Committee.

Dr Diah Wihardini is the Director of BINUS Global of Bina Nusantara (BINUS) University in Jakarta, Indonesia. She took her PhD in educational measurement at UC Berkeley under the Presidential Fulbright scholarship, a M.Ed at Flinders University, and a B.Sc (Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests include item response modelling and development, international assessments, teaching and learning, and educational policy analysis.At BINUS, she handles all activities related to internationalisations and collaborations, and teaches mathematics and statistics courses at undergraduate level.

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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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• Building Better Universities
• Building Better Universities
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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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• Building Better Universities
• Building Better Universities
• SDGs for Universities
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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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• Building Better Universities
• Building Better Universities
• SDGs for Universities
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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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• Building Better Universities
• SDGs for Universities
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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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