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Speakers and Speeches

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Welcome Addresses

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Sheldon Shaeffer

Sheldon Shaeffer
Director, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok

 

Welcome Address (pdf, 10kb)

 

 

Varakorn Samakoses
Deputy Minister of Education, Thailand

 

Opening Address (pdf, 30kb)

 

Keynote Speakers

 

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Stephen Toope

President, University of British Colombia

 

Raja Roy Singh Lecture

 

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Peter Taylor

Fellow, Participation, Power and Social Change Team, University of Sussex

 

A Time for Transformation: Opportunities and Challenges from Participatory Development for Higher Education in the 21st Century

 

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Rajesh Tandon

President, Society for Participatory Research in Asia

 

Participatory Research and Development: Implications for Higher Education

 

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Young-Gil Kim

President, Handong Global University

 

Region Building in the Republic of Korea through Cross-Border Higher Education: The Case of Handong Global University

 

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Dorte Kristoffersen

Deputy Executive Director, Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications

 

Quality Assurance of Higher Education as a Means of Capacity Building

 

Panelists

 

Charas Suwanwela

University Council, Chulalongkorn University

 

Roles of Universities in Sufficiency Economy

 

Tilianamua Afamasaga

Director, Centre for Professional Development and Continuing Education, National University of Samoa

 

Pacific Perspective on Sustainable Development and its Implication for Higher Education (pdf, 20kb)

 

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Samuel Lee

Secretary General, Korean National Commission for UNESCO

 

Innovation of Higher Education for Sustainable Development

 

Sharifah Hapsah bt Syed Hasan

Vice Chancellor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

 

Community Service Programmes in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

 

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Mahmood H. Butt

Vice Chancellor, Allama Iqbal Open University

 

Technology Transformation of AIOU (pdf, 530kb)

 

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Zhu Daijian

Director, Research Centre of Sustainable Development and Governance, Tongji University

 

UNEP-Tonji Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development (pdf, 1.4mb)

 

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Russell Bishop

Project Director, School of Education, University of Waikato

 

Changing Power Relations in Development and Education

 

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Hirofumi Abe

Dean, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University

 

Collaboration between Universities and Local Stakeholders for ESD in Okayama City: Achievements and Challenges

 

Antony Stella

Audit Director, Australian University Quality Assurance

 

Community Engagement in Australian Higher Education: Learning from AUQA Audit Reports

 

Agung Purwadi

Director, Centre for Policy Research and Development, Ministry of National Education

 

The Role of Indonesian Universities in Community Development

 

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Clementina Acedo

Director, International Bureau of Education-UNESCO

 

Linking Universities and Community Development: Challenges, Opportunities and Good Practices

 

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Alisher Ikramov

Secretary-General, National Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan for UNESCO

 

Towards Sustainable Development: Innovations in Higher Education of Uzbekistan

 

Closing Addresses

 

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Victor Ordonez
Former Director of UNESCO Bangkok

 

Closing Address (pdf, 30kb)

 

Molly Lee

Molly Lee

Coordinator, APEID, UNESCO Bangkok

 

APEID 8th Programme Cycle 2008-2013 (pdf, 1.4.mb)

 

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Derek Elias

Programme Specialist, ESD, UNESCO Bangkok

 

Vote of Thanks