Category: 2021 Delegate

Kevin Andrews is the Federal Vice-Chancellor of Unicaf University, an independent, pan-African higher education institution. He is the founding academic of Unicaf which was established in 2012 and has grown to a global enrollment in excess of 40,000 students from 156 countries. He received his PhD in Archaeometry from the University of Sheffield having begun his research at Masters level at the University of Bradford. He is interested in the use of 4:0 technologies in making higher education more accessible through online solutions.Kevin relocated to Cyprus from 2005 and became involved in institution building, working as a consultant within the liberalization of the independent tertiary education sector that led to the establishment of the island’s first independent Universities. Between 2009 and 2016 he was the Director of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development and from 2012 Chief Academic Officer at the University of Nicosia Online division which developed into Unicaf. He is a member of the Association of University Administrators, a member of the University Leaders for Sustainable Future and signatory of the Talloires declaration, and the United Nations SDG Accord, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Kevin is a member of the Global Perspectives Strategic Advisory Group of Advance HE in the UK.

Ammar AlDallal, Chairperson of Telecommunications Engineering Department, Ahlia University. He holds Bachelor degree and Master degree in computer engineering from Kuwait University and obtained PhD in computing and systems information from Brunel University in 2012. He taught more than 15 different courses in undergraduate and postgraduate related to software development, programming, algorithms, machine learning, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, computer security. He supervised a vast number of graduation projects and successfully supervised 8 master dissertations. AlDallal has more than 17 papers published in regional and international Journals that discuss several aspects related to information retrieval, computer security and machine learning. He serves as a peer reviewer in several international journals. He received a best paper and best presenter awards in several international conferences. He is a member of internal examiner committee of Master dissertations at Ahlia University, a member of Bahrain Society of Engineers and a senior member of IEEE. He is recognized by Brunel University London as a PhD Academic supervisor. Dr. AlDallal received the fellowship of teaching and learning from Higher Education Academy- UK. He worked as a System Programmer in International Turnkey Systems- Kuwait (1998 -2004) and a Senior System Analyst in International Turnkey Systems in Kingdom of Bahrain (2004 -2012).