Technical Committee 2022

Dr Kurt Deketelaere is since 2009 the Secretary-General of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). He is also a full professor of law at the University of Leuven in Belgium and a visiting professor of law at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He is a specialist in EU research, innovation, education, energy, environment and

Dr. Larry Johnson is an acknowledged expert on the long-term trends and patterns in all things digital, to include social media, mobile technologies, networks and the cloud, and much more. He has devoted the bulk of his formal career to understanding and articulating the arc of digital technology, via research, reports, books, papers, and for more

Professor Mark Brown is Ireland’s first Chair of Digital Learning and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) located at Dublin City University. Mark is currently Treasurer of the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) and he is also an EDEN Fellow. He serves on the Supervisory Board of the European Association of

Dr. Hilligje van’t Land serves the global higher education community as Secretary General of the International Association of Universities (IAU) – global NGO with UNESCO Associate Status. For the past two decades, she has fostered the key role of higher education in societal transformation. She supervises the overall programme activities of the IAU, develops the Association’s

Professor Dato Dr Noor Azizi Ismail is the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. Prior to the recent appointment, he served as Deputy Director General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education Malaysia; Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) and Dean of Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia. He earned his PhD in Accounting Information

Professor Tawana Kupe is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria. He holds a BA Honours and Masters degree in English from the University of Zimbabwe, and a DPhil in Media Studies from University of Oslo, Norway. An Honorary Doctorate in Humanities was bestowed on him by Michigan State University in December 2019.

Ahmed Bawa is the CEO of Universities South Africa. Until 2016, he was Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Durban University of Technology. He also served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Durban Centre of the University of Natal (later to be the University of KwaZulu-Natal). At the City University of New York, he was faculty