Speakers

Benoy has offices in the UK, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, and Graham’s global vision for the company has culminated in Benoy receiving the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. Benoy was also honoured to be named ‘Company of the Year’ at the high-profile 2009 British Business Awards in China.

Benoy’s iconic retail design has been named ‘the best in Asia’ at MIPIM Asia for the last three consecutive years with Elements in Hong Kong, ION Orchard in Singapore and Shanghai IFC Mall in China. Benoy is a top 10 UK design brand with schemes that are redefining the built environment from Helsinki to Hanoi.

Graham sits on the Asia Task Force, the Middle East Task Force, Catalyst UK, and the Boards of the China Britain Business Council and UK India Council. Graham is a Non-Executive Director of Nottingham Forest FC and an Ambassador for the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts. Graham and his wife Jo Founded and Co-Chair the Benoy Foundation, a grant-making charitable trust supporting community, building and education initiatives in the UK and around the world.

A decade ago, multi-award winning British Architect and Design firm Benoy took a decision to internationalise its proven expertise. Benoy won a project to design a 85,000m² retail mall situated atop Kowloon's Mass Transit Railway Station in Hong Kong, and established an office to service the scheme. Benoy now has eight offices worldwide and is contributing to the development of the future city across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Benoy’s landmark schemes include Bluewater in Kent, the Bullring in Birmingham, Westfield London, the iconic Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, ION Orchard in Singapore and Shanghai ifc mall in China.

In 2002 Prof. Roziah was appointed Dean of Institute of Postgraduate Studies in University of Malaya and participated in several meetings and conferences relating to intervarsity cooperation and networking and the internationalisation of University of Malaya. She was Chairperson of the Meeting of Council of Postgraduate Deans, at the 8th IPTA Postgraduate Management Meeting at University of Malaya in 2002. In 2004, she was seconded and appointed Director of the Institut Social Malaysia (ISM) a training and research institute within the Ministry of Women, Family and Development. Here, she developed a collaborative research network with the Department of Social Work of the University of Berkeley, California and extended ISM’s links with important research institutions within the region and internationally. She also revitalised ISM’s distinguished fellowship programme by making significant appointments with key researchers and scholars from the national, regional and international academia in the areas of social welfare and policy.

In 2006 Prof. Roziah was appointed Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute of the University of Malaya. Here she focused her efforts in enhancing the contributions of the Institute through post-graduate studies, global research, international networking and publications. The Institute runs several International Masters programmes by course work in various fields of studies and Ph.D programme by thesis linked to several faculties with the University of Malaya.

Her areas of expertise include measuring the impact of national policies on the internationalization of the higher education sector, international student mobility trends, examining international student decision-making and global- and country-specific higher education trends.

In 2004, Janet joined the British Council in the UK as a Research Development Manager. She became education adviser in 2006 and then Head of Education Research in 2011 in the Hong Kong office. Prior to the British Council, Janet was a university lecturer in Economics.

He has a strong interest in differentiated learning, including student-centred individualised learning environments and has served as a reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency in England.

Born in Australia, Craig has lived in the UK for 24 years.

He is a graduate in Chemistry and Maths from the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education (now the University of Tasmania); he also holds a Masters degree from Birmingham University in the UK and a Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) from The Queen’s University of Belfast.

He has published widely in the areas of children’s fitness, health, sport, exercise, performance and education.

Before joining the Academy, Craig was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University where he was responsible for learning and teaching, internationalisation, student services, library, registry and student sport. Prior to his appointment at Northumbria he was the founding Dean of the School of Sport, Performing Arts and Leisure at Wolverhampton University.

Craig has been an outspoken advocate of Internationalisation including globalisation, professional development, staff and student exchange and international partnership development in teaching, research and enterprise.

He has supported several volunteer programmes across the sector and was the executive sponsor of the award winning Community Action Programme in Newcastle, a joint project between the Student Union and the University.

With an international reputation as a sports psychologist, Craig has worked with an extensive range of performers at World, Olympic and Commonwealth level and is an adviser to UEFA and FIFA on psychology in officiating.

He is a formal member of the JISC Advance Board and is a member of several other Higher Education Boards in the UK. Craig is an advocate of e-Learning and the use of technology to create positive blended learning environments.

Craig will present on improving the student learning experience in the global marketplace

His opinion is regularly sought by the national media and he speaks at national and international conferences on a diverse range of themes reflecting Group’s focus on the promotion of excellence in research and in the student experience. Recent Group publications include ‘Enterprising Universities: Using the research base to add value to business’ (September 2010), ‘An Analysis of Postgraduate Provision at UK Universities’ (January 2010) and ‘Beyond the Curriculum: Opportunities to enhance employability and future life choices’ (November 2009).

Jonathan has a BA from Durham University and an MBA from Macquarie University Graduate School of Management. Prior to entering the higher education sector he developed extensive international managerial experience with a number of highly regarded multinational organizations including Unilever, Rank Organization and FedEx. He has worked in Europe, Asia-Pacific and more recently the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent. His extensive experience of helping organizations to succeed in a variety of international settings has enabled Georgetown to maximize the opportunities and overcome the challenges of operating its first international branch campus.

A Professor of Economics, he was the founding Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission and the United Nations and was Chair of the UK Armed Forces Pay Review Body. Recently he has joined the Asia Task Force, a high level body helping to boost UK exports and investments in Asian countries.

David will present on international leadership and management.

Professor Miles, the Head of the School of Chemical, Environmental and Environmental Engineering at The University of Nottingham, is a mineral processing engineer with over 20 years international experience in teaching, research and consultancy. He has extensive knowledge of, and research experience in fine particle processing, waste minimisation and recycling, bulk material transportation processes and coal preparation.

Professor Miles has a research philosophy with collaboration at its core - working in interdisciplinary teams exploring fundamental scientific issues through to the exploitation and commercialisation of research.

Nick will present on developing excellence in teaching and learning in an international context.

She is Chair of the CIM HE Members’ Interest Group, a former Chair of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Education and Skills Group, and is a current member of the Chartered Management Institute’s Marketing and Policy Development Committee.

Emma has specialised in HE marketing and communications for almost 14 years and has worked in PR and marketing for 23 years.

A Chartered Marketer and a Chartered PR Practitioner, she has won a string of awards for her work across a range of marketing and PR specialisms.

She has an MBA and holds a range of marketing, PR and management qualifications.

Prior to moving to Malaysia, he was the Head of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Research Group in Nottingham UK and Deputy Head of School M3. Professor Pashby has a background in materials science, with a particular focus on the use of lasers in manufacturing. Professor Pashby previously worked at Rolls Royce and the University of Warwick and joined The University of Nottingham in 2000.

He obtained a first-class degree in Chemistry from the University of Essex and a DPhil in Chemistry from Oxford. His research interests are focussed on molecular modelling and computer-aided drug design. In 2005, Stephen moved to the Malaysia Campus to establish the School of Pharmacy at UNMC and became the Dean of the Faculty of Health & Biological Sciences, later renamed to the Faculty of Science.

Since 2005 he has sat on Management Group at UNMC and has been Chair of the campus Learning and Teaching Committee since 2007. In 2008 Stephen was awarded a Lord Dearing Award for Teaching and Learning.