SATU Presidents' Forum
2020 General Assembly
2-3 November 2021 (GMT+8)
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SATU Presidents' Forum
Government Representatives
Government Representatives
Dr. Yen-Yi Lee
Dr. Yen-Yi Lee
Director General of the Department of International and Cross-strait Education of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan
Director General of the Department of International and Cross-strait Education of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan
Bio
Bio
Dr. Nicole Yen-Yi Lee is the director general of the Department of International and Cross-strait Education of the Ministry of Education. She previously served as director general of the Department of Higher Education of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, and prior to her latest appointment, she was working in London as the director of the Education Division at the Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom. She is currently a member of the board of the Foundation for Scholarly ExchangeFulbright Taiwan, a member of the board of FICHET – the Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan, and a member of the board of the Language Training & Testing Center, and she has previously been on the board of HEEACT– the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan, and on the board of CEEC– the College Entrance Examination Center. Dr. Lee began her career at the Ministry of Education after completing her studies at National Chengchi University and being awarded a PhD in Education in 2000. She has formerly worked in the Department of Higher Education and in the Department of Technological and Vocational Education, focusing on issues relating to higher education. Dr. Lee was given an Exemplary Public Servant Award by the Ministry of Education in 2007, and then recognized as an Exemplary Public Servant Award by the Executive Yuan in 2013. She also received an Australian Government grant to be a visiting scholar at the University of Canberra in 2003, and a Fulbright Grant to be a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkley in 2010. Dr. Lee is strongly committed to furthering international and cross-strait education and research related cooperation, collaboration, and exchanges. These are vital for sustainable development and facing future challenges in our shared world, and Taiwan can make a valuable contribution.
Keynote Speech I
Keynote Speech I
Mr. Wendell Brase
Mr. Wendell Brase
Associate Chancellor for Sustainability
Associate Chancellor for Sustainability
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
Bio
Bio
Wendell Brase is the University of California, Irvine’s Associate Chancellor for Sustainability. In this role, he leads efforts by UC Irvine and assists other campuses throughout the UC system to implement UC’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative. Brase is chair of the Energy Services Pilar of the University of California’s Global Climate Leadership Council.
For 25 years, he provided leadership for an award-winning sustainability program in his role as Vice Chancellor for Administrative and Business Services. UC Irvine received California’s highest environmental award, the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award, in 2008 and again in 2013; has earned numerous accolades for sustainability, including a 2009 Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Leadership Achievement Award and their 2014 Climate Leadership Award; has been on Sierra magazine’s Top 10 list of greenest campuses for the past twelve years, coming in at No. 1 in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020 and first in the U.S. in 2019; and in 2018, UCI was recognized by the American Association for Sustainability in Higher Education with a STARS Platinum rating for its sustainability operations, academics, and research. The campus currently has 20 LEED Platinum and 10 LEED Gold buildings, among the most of any campus in the U.S.
Keynote Speech II
Keynote Speech II
Prof. Catherine Montgomery
Prof. Catherine Montgomery
Deputy Executive Dean (Global)
Faculty of Social Sciences and Health
Deputy Executive Dean (Global)
Faculty of Social Sciences and Health
Professor, School of Education
Professor, School of Education
University of Durham
University of Durham
Bio
Bio
Professor Catherine Montgomery
Catherine Montgomery is Professor of Education and Deputy Executive Dean Global in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health at the University of Durham. Catherine has a strategic leadership role in internationalisation at Durham and her Faculty role involves her in developing, implementing and coordinating university and faculty strategies and policies around internationalisation across eight different disciplinary areas.
Catherine’s research focuses on internationalisation of higher education and she has published widely in this field. She has a particular interest in transnational higher education in China and East Asia and her recent work focuses particularly on mobilities and immobilities in higher education and the internationalisation of curriculum and knowledge. Catherine is also interested in the flows of international students and what this can tell us about the changing landscapes of global higher education.
Catherine is the Editor of Compare: Journal of International and Comparative Education; she holds a visiting professorship at the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy; she is an affiliated international expert for Monash University’s China Research Network; she is an invited Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA 2018) and Catherine was awarded a UK National Teaching Fellowship in 2010.
Special Address
Special Address
Prof. Peter Lennie
Prof. Peter Lennie
Executive Director
Executive Director
Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)
Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)
Bio
Bio
Peter Lennie is the Jay Last Distinguished University Professor at University of Rochester. He has been Executive Director of WUN since August 2018. Before that he served at the University of Rochester as Provost, as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Engineering, and earlier as the founding chair of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. During his time as Provost he drove a major expansion of the university’s international engagement.
Lennie is a neuroscientist whose research has focused principally on the early stages of seeing, and how the brain encodes information in the eye’s retina and transmits it to the visual cortex. His published work has contributed particularly to our understanding of how information about the color of objects is represented in the brain.
His professional service includes appointments on editorial boards of several scientific journals, and on boards of professional societies. He has served as chair of National Institutes of Health review panels, and of the National Research Council Committee on Vision. He has held a MERIT award from the National Eye Institute. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
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