Please welcome Dr. Shi Jinghuan as a plenary speaker for the 2011 World Universities Forum
SHI JINGHUAN
Dr. Shi Jinghuan is a professor and the Executive Dean of the Institute of Education, Tsinghua University. She also works as the Chairperson of Beijing Association of Women Professors and is a member of the 10th and 11th Beijing Municipal Political Council.
Dr. Shi Jinghuan has worked as a professor, the Deputy Department Chair and the Director of Research Institute of Education and Cultural History in Beijing Normal University for quite a number of years. She worked as a Fulbright professor in the University of Maryland at College Park, US in 1996 and as a specially Appointed Professor at the Center for Research and Development of Higher Education at Hokkaido University in Japan in 2006. She currently serves as an oversea Auditor, Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). She has broad academic publications in higher education, international and comparative education and history of education.
Dr. Shi Jinghuan has a rich experience in working with international organizations. She worked as the consultants for the projects of the World Bank, the UNDP, the UNESCO and the UNICEF.
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XU XIAOZHOU is Dean and Professor of College of Education, Zhejiang University. He holds the UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship Education at Zhejiang University. He is also Director of the Institute of Innovation Education and Entrepreneurship, the National Innovative Research Base of “Innovation Management and Sustainable Competitiveness.” He served as Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Eastern Asia Education, Korea in 2006. In 2008, he was bestowed title of honorary professor by the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Comparative Education, Education Policy, Higher Education, and Educational Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education. In recent years, he as the editor-in-chief edits a range of influential series which cover “Entrepreneurship Education Research Series” (4 books, Zhejiang Education Press, 2010), “Education in China Series”(5 books in English, Zhejiang University Press & Homas & Sekey Books Press, 2009), “Education in China Since the past 60 Years” (4 books Zhejiang University Press. 2009) and “Changes in Higher Education Policy Series” (6 books, co-edited with Xu Hui, Zhejiang Education Press, 2007). His other important monographs include “Idea and Reality in Higher Education” (China Ocean University Press, 2009), ”Autonomy and Restriction: Comparative Studies on Policies of Universities” (Zhejiang Education Press, 2007), ”Excellence and Efficiency: Studies on Prior Development Strategies of University”(Zhejiang Education Press, 2007), “Modern Korean Higher Education”(Zhejiang University Press, 2007), “Educational innovation: Perspectives of internationalization” (co-edited with Roberto Giannatelli, Zhejiang Universtiy Press, 2006) and “Studies in the Recent Reforms of Higher Education Structure in the Europe and the United States” (Neimenggu University Press, 1997).
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