IAU turns 70! |
Created in 1950 at the initiative of UNESCO and higher education leaders around the world, IAU marked its 70th anniversary on 9 December 2020. To commemorate the occasion, we are delighted to present a yearlong series of festivities kicked off with a Celebratory Webinar, as well as these wonderful video contributions on international higher education cooperation shared by IAU Members, partners, and friends. We have also launched a special issue of IAU Horizons, offering a glimpse into these past seven decades of IAU, recalling salient moments since its inception, and looking into the future of HE and society.
Happy Anniversary to the IAU and the global higher education community! We look forward to celebrating this milestone with you throughout the year.
Watch the recording of the Special Celebratory Webinar.
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Maria de Fátima Marinho Former Vice-Rector for Cooperation and Culture, University of Porto, Portugal | Pornchai Mongkhonvanit President, Siam University, Thailand | Daniel Hernandez Ruiperez Former Rector, University of Salamanca, Spain |
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Prof. Dr. Mosleh M.S. Duhoky University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq | Prof. Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Rector International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia Former IAU President | Carmen Lamagna, Vice-Chancellor, Students and Staff American International University-Bangladesh |
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Dr. Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabdi IAU Board Member and President, University of Tehran, Iran | Remus Pricopie,, Rector, National University of Political and Administrative Studies, Romania | Inga Žalėnienė,, Rector, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania |
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Andrew Deeks,, President, University College Dublin, Ireland | ||
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Prof. Atsushi Yokota, Executive Vice President for International Affairs,Hokkaido University, Japan | Sjur Bergan, Head of the Council of Europe’s Education Department | Prof. Oldřich Starý, Vice-rector for International Relations, and Team Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic |
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Eva Egron-Polak, Former IAU Secretary General | Marco Teixeira and Bianca Kopp, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) | Graham Carr, President and Vice-Chancellor, Concordia University, Canada |
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Mr. Marilen Pirtea, Rector, University of Timisoara, Romania | Fr. (Dr.) Stephen Mavely, Vice Chancellor, Assam Don Bosco University, India | Torunn Gjelsvik, Secretary General, International Council for Open and Distance Education |
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Muneo Kaigo, Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan | Sijbolt Noorda, Professor, President, Magna Charta Observatory | Vinitha Gengatharan, Executive Director of York International Prof. Charles Hopkins & Katrin Kohl, UNESCO Chair and Executive Chair Coordinator, York University, Canada |
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Francesco Ubertini, Rector of the University of Bologna, Italy | Prof. Álvaro Barbosa, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Strategic Development, University of Saint Joseph (Macao), China | Dr. Wali Mahmood Hamad, President of Koya University (KOU), Iraq |
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Prof. Ricardo Rivero Ortega, Rector of the University of Salamanca, Spain | Dr. Md. Sabur Khan, Founder & Chairman Daffodil International University, Bangladesh | Prof. Dr. Alexander Gorbunov, Rector of Pyatigorsk State University, Russia |
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Prof. Dr. Amr Galal El-Adawi, President, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon | Prof. Nikolaos G. Papaioannou, Rector of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece | Prof. Dr. A.K.Mahapatra, Vice Chancellor, Siksha ’O’ Anusandhan, Deemed to be University, India |
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Prof. Katerina Viktorovna Astakhovа, Rector of Kharkov University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy”, Ukraine | Prof. Dr. Marcelo Knobel, Rector of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil | Dr. David Julien, Executive Director, Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (OUI-IOHE) |
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Prof. Waleed Abulfaraj, Rector of AlMaarefa University, Saudi Arabia | Jenneke Lokhoffj, President ENIC-NARIC Networks/Senior Policy Officer at Nuffic, Netherlands | Gohar Hovhannisyanj, President of the European Students Union (ESU) |
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Team at DUZ, Medienhaus, Academic Publisher, Germany | Prof. Jon Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland | AURORA Network |
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Prof. Tamym Abdessemed, Dean and CEO of ISIT Paris, France | Orla Quinlan, Director of Internationalisation, Rhodes University, South Africa and President of the International Education Association of South Africa, IEASA | Major General Milinda Peiris, Vice Chancellor and deputy VCs of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), Sri Lanka |
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Adel El Zaïm, President, Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) | Dr. Esther D. Brimmer, Executive Director and CEO NAFSA: Association of International Educators | Prof. Taher Mansour, Rector, Shatt Al-Arab University College, Basra, Iraq |
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Prof. Irène Rabenoro,, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar Former Acting Chief of the Higher Education Section UNESCO | ||
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