Final Executive Board Members (2019 - 2020):
Rab Paterson (Toyo University - UCLA Extension Center for Global Education), Director.
Brian Berry (University of Tokyo, Japan), President.
Dan Ferreira (Sophia University, Japan) Vice President & Webmaster
Tingting An (University of Tokyo, Japan), Secretary-Treasurer.
Rab Paterson was the last Director of the Asia Association for Global Studies and was teaching for the Toyo University's International Affairs Office/Center for Global Education and Exchange Business English Communication (BEC) program jointly ran with the UCLA Extension Center for Global Education. Rab was also a member of the editorial board of the AAGS's Asia Journal for Global Studies, and is a Fellow of the British Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), a Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), a member of the Board of Directors of the RSA’s Japan Fellows Network (Communications, Marketing & PR), a member of the Japan Association for Language Teaching’s Technical Advisory Committee, and held memberships in many other educational technology / professional teaching associations. He has a BA (Hons.) in Pacific Asian History and an MA in Pacific Asian Area Studies from the University of London’s SOAS, a Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy and an MS in Multidisciplinary Studies from SUNY (Buffalo's) Graduate Programs for Educators, and an MEd in Practitioner Research from University College London’s Institute of Education. His publications range from peer-reviewed academic journal papers, conference proceedings, academic book chapters, organisational newsletter articles, and he has presented at many international academic conferences worldwide including Keynote, Plenary and Featured Speaker sessions, as well as two TEDx presentations. He’s an Apple Distinguished Educator, an Apple Certified Teacher, a Google Innovator, Google Certified Trainer, and was a Google Educator Group Leader for the West Tokyo GEG (the first GEG in Japan). He now lives in a semi self-built, eco-friendly, sustainable lifestyle log-house of his own design in the foothills of the Japan Alps with his family, and their two dogs!
Brian David Berry was the last President of the Asia Association for Global Studies. He is currently a full-time lecturer in the Faculty of Global Studies at Chiba University of Commerce in Japan. His research primarily focuses on the globalization of Japanese Universities and examines the role of students within the globalization process. In addition to responsibilities within AAGS, he is also working to finish his PhD. in the ITASIA program at the University of Tokyo.
Dan Ferreira, Ed.D., was the last Vice President and Webmaster for AAGS. At the time he was a contract lecturer at Sophia University in downtown Tokyo and a Google Certified Trainer and an Apple Teacher. He has been an educator for close to two decades and has served as an English language teacher and an instructional tech coach at several public and private universities in the Greater Tokyo region. Dan holds a doctorate in education with a specialization in e-Learning from Northcentral University, San Diego, California. His dissertation topic was on the barriers and successes of teacher use of instructional communication technology for teaching purposes.
Tingting An is an Assistant professor working at College of Psychology, School of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba in Japan. She also works as a clinical psychologist supporting international students on campus at the International Student Consulting Room. After coming to Japan from China in 2006, she earned a Bachelor's degree in clinical psychology at the School of Human Sciences at Osaka University, and Master’s and Doctoral degrees at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo. She has also spent half a year studying psychology at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Adelaide University as an exchange student. Her research interests cover mental health, transcultural counseling, culture adaptation, transcultural communication, and transcultural education. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist and National Certified Public Psychologist.