Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić
Following her service as Secretary-General of the Association of Universities of Yugoslavia, Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić began a 20-year career in UNESCO in 1990, working in its European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES) in Bucharest before moving to Paris to lead its global work on higher education reform, innovation and quality assurance as Chief of Section for Higher Education. She has facilitated numerous international collaborative projects (e.g. the Lisbon Recognition Convention, the Tokyo Recognition Convention, the Guidelines on Quality Provision in Cross-border Higher Education, the Global Initiative for Quality Assurance Capacity-Building for developing countries - GIQAC, in partnership with the World Bank) and served as Executive Secretary to the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education. That same year she was voted International Higher Education Professional of the Year by her peers worldwide. She was also project officer for the UNESCO Congress on OER (Open Educational Resources), which adopted the 2012 Paris OER Declaration. She has received a number of international awards and has published widely, her latest publications including A new generation of external quality assurance, Dynamics of change and innovative approaches (Uvalić-Trumbić & Martin, UNESCO/IIEP, 2021;) and L'internationalisation de l'enseignemnt supérieur, Le meilleur des mondes? (De Boeck supérieur, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2020).
She was Senior Advisor for International Affairs to CHEA (Council for Higher Education Accreditation, USA) from 2012 to 2020, leading the activities of the CHEA International Quality Group; Honorary Member of the International Advisory Board of the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) (2011-2020); Education Master at the DeTao Masters Academy (Shanghai, China) (until 2019) and consultant to UNESCO. She continues to live and work in Paris. Her activities include global trends in higher education with particular focus on quality assurance, qualifications recognition and innovative higher education providers.
Paris, October 2022