Speaker and Panelist Biography
Tsutomu Kimura
President, NIAD-UE (National Institution for Academic Degrees and University
Evaluation), Japan
Dr. Tsutomu Kimura has been President of NIAD-UE since 1998. His previous position
was President of Tokyo Institute of Technology. He had served as academic staff atTokyo Institute of Technology over 30 years, as a professional of the fields ofGeotechnical Engineering and Soil Engineering. He has contributed to thedevelopment of quality assurance of higher education internationally. He was Board
Member of INQAAHE from 2003 to 2005. He was Vice Chairman for Central Councilfor Education and a member of Science Council of Japan until 2007.
He received Master of Engineering from University of Tokyo and Doctoral Degree fromTokyo Institute of Technology. He was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire (C.B.E) in 2004.

Kimito Kubo
Deputy Director-General, Higher Education Bureau, MEXT (Ministry of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), Japan
Mr. Kimito Kubo has been Deputy Director-General, Higher Education Bureau ofMEXT since 2007. He has served MEXT for nearly 30 years. During his career atMEXT, he held various positions including higher education and lifelong learning:Director, Personnel Division of Minister’s Secretariat; Director, Minister’s Secretariat;
Deputy Director-General, Lifelong Learning Policy Bureau; Director, Private Education
Institution Administration Division, Higher Education Bureau.

Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) Open SymposiumSpeaker and Panelist Biography

Concepcion V. Pijano
Executive Director, PAASCU (Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Collegesand Universities)
APQN President
Concepcion V. Pijano is the President-designate of the Asia Pacific Quality Networkand the Executive Director of the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools,
Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). She has worked in the field of academic
accreditation since 1978 and has shared her experiences and expertise inaccreditation with various institutions and organizations, both national andinternational. She has served as a consultant for accreditation and quality assurance
in a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region. At present, she is the adviser andconsultant on quality assurance to the Accreditation Committee of Cambodia. She
also serves as an accreditation specialist and resource person for the AsianDevelopment Bank.
She has authored several manuals and tools for accreditation, conducted workshops
on quality assurance systems for various countries and presented papers in bothregional and international conferences. She holds an M.A. in Public Administrationfrom Pace University in New York, U.S.A.

Peter Williams
Chief Executive, QAA (The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education), UK
Peter Williams is a graduate in English from the University of Exeter. Following a briefspell as a management trainee with the British Printing Corporation, and three years inthe Registry of the University of Surrey, he moved in 1974 to the University ofLeicester, where he was in charge of the Higher Degrees Office. In 1978 he waspromoted to Assistant Registrar in the Medical School, becoming Secretary of theSchool in 1982. From 1984 until 1990 he was the Deputy Secretary of the British
Academy. In 1990 Peter was appointed as the first (and only) Director of the CVCP
Academic Audit Unit (AAU), one of the first quality assurance agencies, and between
1992 and 1997 was the Director of the Quality Assurance Group of the Higher
Education Quality Council (HEQC), which took over the responsibilities of the AAU. In
August 1997 Peter became the Director of Institutional Review in the Quality
Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), which was formed by a merger ofHEQC and the quality assessment divisions of the UK’s higher education fundingcouncils. In August 2001 he additionally took on the role of Acting Chief Executive.
In March 2002 he was appointed Chief Executive of QAA.
In addition to his work in the UK, Peter has lectured and made presentations in manyother countries and has participated in a number of international quality assurance
projects in Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, India, New Zealand, Poland, Romania,
Sweden and the USA. In 2004-05 he was a Vice President, and in September 2005
was elected President, of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher
Education (ENQA) and represents ENQA on the Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG).
He was re-elected President of ENQA in 2006 and 2007.

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Li Zhihong
Deputy Director, HEEC (Higher Education Evaluation Center of the Ministry ofEducation), China
Master of Education, senior engineer. Having been engaged in the field of higher
education administration, Mr. Li held the posts of deputy director of the Academic
Affairs Office of Northern Jiaotong University, deputy director and consultant of theScience and Technology Education Department of Higher Education Ministry, directorof Higher Technical & Vocational Education Department. In July 2004, he wasappointed as the deputy director of Higher Education Evaluation Center. At present,
he also serves as executive vice chairman of National Engineering Education
Professional Certification Expert Committee, deputy secretary-general of Adult
Education Association of China, deputy director of China Vocational Education
Committee, vice-chairman of China Institute of Higher Education Cooperative
Education Branch, committee member of the National Mathematical Contest in
Modeling Organizing Committee, deputy secretary-general of National Undergraduate
Advertising Art Competition Organizing Committee etc.. Meantime, he is also
part-time professor of Beijing University of Technology and National Academy ofEducation Administration.

Molly Lee
Co-ordinator of APEID & Specialist in Higher Education, UNESCO
Dr. Molly N.N. Lee is the Coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational
Programme for Development (APEID) and Programme Specialist in Higher Education
at UNESCO Asia and the Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok. Prior tojoining UNESCO Bangkok, she has been a Professor of Education in University ofScience, Malaysia, in Penang. As the Coordinator of APEID, she runs programmes onhigher education, technical and vocational education, education for sustainable
development and ICT in education.

Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) Open SymposiumSpeaker and Panelist Biography

Nuanthip Kamolvarin
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine,
Chulalongkorn UniversityDr. Nuanthip Kamolvarin is the Associate Professor of Chulalongkorn University. Also,
she has been jointly appointed as Representative of ONESQA, and also APQN board
member.
Other than these careers she has contributed to higher education by her variousexperiences that relate to quality assurance and quality assessment: Thailand Quality
Award Assessor; Committee on curriculum quality assurance and development
system of Chulalongkorn University; The Higher Education Institution Performance
Evaluation Committee of The Office of the Public Sector Development Commission
Thailand; Committee on Standards and Criteria Development for Science School ofThailand; Participating in Standards and Criteria Development for Higher Education
Institution Assessment of Thailand (Second round); Chair of the performance
evaluation committee of 18 universities, performing for The Office of the Public Sector
Development Commission Thailand; Chair of the quality assessment committee, 2ndround, of The Thai Red Cross Nursing College, and Payap University, performing for
The Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (PublicOrganization); Chair of quality assessment committee of Preclinical Science Office,Thamasart University, Chair of quality assessment committee of Faculty of Law
Chulalongkorn University, Chair of quality assessment committee of departments,
Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University; Quality system administrationcommittee, Chulalongkorn University; Committee on standards and indicatorsdevelopment for Chulalongkorn University quality system.
Dr. Nuanthip kamolvarin received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Mahidol University.

Mike Willing
Deputy Chief Executive, Quality Assurance, NZQA (New Zealand QualificationsAuthority)
Joined NZQA on August 1 2006 as Deputy Chief Executive, Quality Assurance fromFonterra Co-operative Dairy Company.
At Fonterra employed as the Product Conformance Manager based in Hamilton withresponsibility for all the manufactured dairy product testing and grading withapproximately 550 staff.
Prior to Fonterra was Global Quality Manager for the New Zealand Dairy Board.
Initially trained as a teacher and after extensive overseas travel and returning to NZ
moved into adult education as the Executive Manager with the NZ Fishing IndustryTraining Council, followed by a similar role with the NZ Dairy Industry Training Council.
Current interests include cycling, sports critiquing, reading and movies.

Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) Open SymposiumSpeaker and Panelist Biography

Hidetoshi Seiwa
Senior Researcher, JUAA (Japan University Accreditation Association)
Dr. Hidetoshi Seiwa has served as Senior Researcher at JUAA. He has joined several
committees on university education and university evaluation including a committee
member of JUAA since 2000 and external evaluator of NIAD-UE from 2000 to 2002.
He is also Project Leader of Research and Investigation Department of Japan
Association of National Universities (JANU).
He served as academic staff in the field of experimental research in clinicalpsychology at Hiroshima University for nearly 40 years, where he held senior positions
including Vice-President. He is Emeritus Professor of Hiroshima University. He
received Ph.D. from Hiroshima University.

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