Asha Kanwar
Vice President, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada.
Professor Asha Singh Kanwar was appointed Vice-President of the Commonwealth of Learning in April 2006 and assumed additional responsibility as Programme Director in April 2007. Her engagement with distance education began when she joined Indira Gandhi National Open University, where she served as Professor, Director of the School of Humanities and Pro-Vice Chancellor. Professor Kanwar was a consultant at UNESCO-BREDA and has over 30 years of experience in teaching, research and administration. She received her undergraduate, master's and MPhil degrees from Panjab University in India and a DPhil from the University of Sussex, UK. She was also a Fulbright Fellow for post-doctoral research at Iowa State University where she was later invited to teach.