Published 12 October 2009
The International Advisory Board (IAB) advises the Dean and Management of AUC regarding the pursuit of its mission "Excellence and Diversity in a Global City" as a higher education institution. It meets once a year in Amsterdam.
The composition of the AUC International Advisory Board is as follows:
- Mr. Berry Marttin, Executive Board member, Rabobank Nederland (chair). Mr. Marttin is the Executive Board member responsible for the International Rural and Retail division of Rabobank International. He joined Rabobank as an international management trainee in 1990, after completing a degree in business administration in Brazil. His career at Rabobank International has given him extensive experience as an international banker, in both the wholesale and retail banking business.
- Dr. John Douglas, Centre for Studies in Higher Eduction, University of California at Berkeley, US. Mr. Douglass is a Senior Research Fellow whose current research interests are focused on the student experience in research universities, the role of universities in economic development, science policy as a component of national and multinational economic policy, the evolving role of mass higher education in society, and the influence of globalization.
- Prof. William Kirby, professor of Chinese studies and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, US. Professor Kirby holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and (Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa) the Free University of Berlin. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Prof. Helga Nowotny, President of the European Research Council, Brussel. She is Professor emerita of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, NY and a doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Vienna.
- Ms. Eva Egron Polak, Secretary General, International Association of Universities (IAU), Paris. Prior to joining IAU, she was Vice President (international) of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. She was educated in the Czech Republic, Canada and France.
- Dr. Heiko Hutmacher. Dr. Hutmacher is the Senior Vice President Human Resources at Akzo Nobel, based in Amsterdam. He is also an Associate Fellow of Oxford Leadership Academy in the Netherlands and holds an MBA from Cologne University in Germany.
Source: AUC
|
