Category: Delegate

Professor Sing Kong Lee

Professor Sing Kong Lee is the Vice President (Alumni and Advancement) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He obtained a 1st Class Honours in Horticultural Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 1974, supported by the Colombo Plan Scholarship and awarded by the Public Service Commission of Singapore. He received his PhD in 1985 from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in Plant Biotechnology.

After an illustrious career in the civil service, Professor Lee joined National Institute of Education (NIE) in 1991 and was in various positions of leadership. He assumed the directorship of NIE in 2006. Under his stewardship, NIE took a systematic review of teacher education programmes in partnership with MOE and its schools, using the revised National Curriculum as key guides. The resulting 21st-century teacher education model was launched in 2009 to develop teachers with the key values, skills and knowledge necessary to function in the 21st-century classroom.

Building on his extensive knowledge and experience in education, Professor Lee was appointed as the Vice President (Education Strategies) from July 2014 till June 2016 to lead the development of NTU’s strategies and innovations in curricular, teaching methods and assessment. He initiated a framework that provides the support for professors across NTU to proactively adopt Technology Enabled Learning (TEL) initiatives, with the aim of having 50% of the NTU courses to be incorporated with certain TEL components in them by 2020. As the Director of the Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE@NTU), he leads CRADLE in its focus on research into the best learning practices specific to Singapore’s tertiary education sector. Appointed as the Vice President (Alumni and Advancement) in August 2015, he is pivotal in the re-development of Alumni and Donor relationship in NTU.

Professor Lee has received numerous awards for his contributions in education & research works. Among his notable accolades are the National Technology Award 2000, Urban Agriculture Award 2000, Excellence for Singapore Award 2001, Singapore Innovation Award 2001, Public Administration Medal (Silver) (2004), Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Biology (2005), NUS Distinguished Alumni in Science Award (2009), Public Administration Medal (Gold) (2011), Medal of Honour for the Cause of Education (Vietnam) 2011. Professor Lee is also the first Singaporean to receive the prestigious Medal for Distinguished Service 2013, the highest honour awarded by Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

Professor Allan Kellehear

Allan Kellehear, PhD., FAcSS is a 50th Anniversary Professor (End-of-Life Care) in the Faculty of Health Studies and Academic Director of the DHEZ Health & Wellbeing Centre at the University of Bradford.

His research work embraces social and personal experiences of terminal illness, public health models for its care, and technology-enabled health care for those living with long-term conditions more broadly. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, President of both the Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS) and Public Health Palliative Care International (PHPCI). He has published 23 books and over 100 articles and has held previous chairs in England, Australia, and Japan.

Professor Yayu Huang

Professor Yayu Huang received his MESc in Mechanics in 1989. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the research and application of mechanical dynamics and 15 years of experience in international cooperation. He is one of the academic pacemakers in the university community in Yunnan Province. Currently he focuses on the research and application of innovation（TRIZ，multibody dynamics, multi-physics fields coupling, modelling and simulation of multi-domain system, multidisciplinary design optimisation, high performance computing, cloud manufacturing, as well as international cooperation in education, research and application in mechanical engineering.

Professor Huang is Director, Institute of Digital Design and Manufacturing, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, and Head, International Affairs Office, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology

Professor Peter Hopkinson

Peter is Director of the University Exeter Centre for Circular Economy that brings together academic researchers, business, policy makers and civic society to support the transition to a circular economy. He set up and ran the world’s first MBA in circular economy and a global on-line executive education programme for leading global businesses, innovation companies and educators. He is most concerned with developing the scientific evidence base for circular economy theory and practice at varying scales and within different industrial contexts.

Sun Hong

Current Position:

Director of President Office, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Educational background:

1984–July 1987: Applied literature, University of Pengcheng;
1992–Aug. 1995: Teaching Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Bachelor degree;
2003-July 2006: Political Economics, Jiangsu Provincial Party School, Master degree

Working experience:

1987-Sep.2002: Secretary, Deputy Director of President Office, Minister of the Organization Department, University of Pengcheng;
2002-Sep. 2010: Minister of the Organization Department, Xuzhou Institute of Technology;
2010-April 2012: Organization Department, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology;
May 2012-now: Deputy Director, Director of President Office, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.

Specialized in:

College and university management
Awarded title of Advanced Worker several times by the university, the city and the province

Professor Yong Chie Heng

Professor Heng is now retired; formerly he was a vice president of NTUST. Prior to that he had served as a Director General of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute and a Vice President of Motorola Inc. YC is a Fellow of IET in the United Kingdom.

Professor Mika Hannula

The University combines a strong tradition of research in the fields of natural sciences and engineering with research related to industry and business. Tampere University of Technology (TUT) is a sought-after partner for collaborative research and development projects with business and industry and a fertile breeding ground for innovation and new research- and knowledge-based companies.

Doctor of Science in Technology, Mika Hannula was appointed as Professor of Information and Knowledge Management at TUT in 2001. His fields of expertise include business intelligence, management and change management and performance measuring. Prior to TUT Presidency he has held the positions of Dean and Vice President for Education.

Ma Xiaoting

Education

1979, 09 – 1983, 07
Xian Jiao Tong University – Metal Material and Heat Treatment

Work Experience

1983, 07 – Present
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

2013, 11 – Present
Director of International Affairs Office

Dr Michael Hannon

Dr Michael Hannon is the Deputy President and Registrar of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)
Nationally he is a member of:
– Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA) formed to merge GMIT into a Technological University with two sister institutions: LYIT and IT Sligo.
– Technological University Research Network (TURN) Steering Committee
– Technological Higher Education Apprenticeship Committee (THEAC): Inaugural Chair from 2018
– Institutes of Technology Apprenticeship Committee (ITAC): Chair from 2017
– West North-West Higher Education Cluster Steering Committee
– GRETB FET Board member
– EAIR:- The European Higher Education Society: Linking research, policy and practice

On the European stage he contributed to an EU Benchmarking Project on Higher Education with a particular focus on curriculum reform across eleven countries.
Michael has widespread leadership and quality assurance experience both inside and outside the organisation, externally with HETAC now QQI, the Teaching Council, the NCCA and the State Examinations Commission.
His education philosophy places the student at the centre of the learning experience, a philosophy he enacted throughout his teaching career. He is an advocate of the “spiral curriculum” (Bruner, 1977) and believes the learning experience should be grounded in “active learning”.
He has published a range of textbooks and graduated from the University of Bath in 2017 with a DBA in Higher Education Management.

Mr Mark Garratt

Mark has spent over 30 years in Marketing, CRM and Business Development in a variety of high-profile private and public sector organisations worldwide.

In his early years he was Marketing Director for Principality Building Society in Wales and Head of Customer Management for Royal & Sun Alliance (responsible for leading Customer Management for the launch of MORETH>N), before running his own CRM consultancy, helping over 30 companies worldwide to develop effective customer management practices and training programmes.

He was instrumental in setting up Confused.com, before taking up a senior interim management career with organisations such as Open University, Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, Yell Group Plc, British Airways and Barnardos.

Latterly he has been Director of Marketing, Communications and Student Recruitment for City University London and the University of West London, where he was responsible for developing and leading the marketing and communications as well as UK and International recruitment strategies for both institutions. He was appointed as Director of External Affairs, as a member of the Executive Board at the University of Bradford, in June 2013.

He is also a Governor of Leeds City College; Board Member City of Bradford UNESCO City of Film; Member of Advisory Board, Bradford Literature Festival; Board Member of Active Bradford and the Chair of Advisory Board, Theatre in the Mill.