Dr. Michel Tarko
President & CEO
Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC)
Canada
Dr. Michel Tarko was first appointed by the JIBC Board of Governors as President and CEO in October 2012 for a five-year term, was reappointed to a second five-year term in July 2017, and a subsequent third term in July 2021. Dr. Tarko served as JIBC Vice-President, Academic and Provost from 2009 to 2012. From 2005 to 2009 he was Associate Dean and Dean for the Faculty of Health Sciences at Douglas College. Before his roles in academic leadership, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences at Douglas College from 1988 to 2005.
In his role as VP, Academic at JIBC, he led the approval of the Diploma in Health Sciences (Emergency Medical Services) and the Bachelor of Law Enforcement Studies degree. He was also involved in granting graduate certificates in Complex Trauma & Sexual Abuse, Dynamics of Conflict, and Intelligence Analysis and Tactical Criminal Analysis.
As President and CEO, Dr. Tarko has led the development of three consecutive JIBC Strategic Plans since 2010 and the most recent Strategic Plan with the JIBC Board of Governors looking forward to 2027. He has facilitated partnerships
Dr. Tarko served as a member and vice-chair of the Board of Directors for the Post-Secondary Employers Association (PSEA, 2014-2016). He is serving as Past-Chair of the Board of Directors for Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan), the national association representing Canada’s public community colleges, institutes, CEGEPs and polytechnic teaching universities, representing the British Columbia Association of Institutes and Universities (BCAIU) Presidents Group. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the BC Council for International Education (BCCIE), including recently as its Chair, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Dr. Tarko earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) in Education (Curriculum & Instruction) from the University of British Columbia. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from the University of Manitoba, as well as a Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing from the Manitoba School for Psychiatric Nursing. Dr. Tarko earned the Institute of Corporate Directors designation of ICD.D having completed the Directors Education Program through the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Dr. Joyce Teo Siew Yean
Assistant Vice Chancellor
Vice President (Global Affairs)
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Brunei Darussalam
Dr Joyce Teo is the Assistant Vice Chancellor and Vice President (Global Affairs) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam since March 2014. Her office oversees the international relations, internationalization development and international activities of the university. This also includes mobility, short term programs as well as international partnership.
Dr Teo joined UBD in 1996, and has worked with UBD for 26 years. Her previous appointments at the university include the Dean of School of Business and Economics, Director of International Office as well as the Director of the Institute of Policy Studies. She has also held the role of Inaugural Coordinator of APEC Studies Centre at UBD besides serving as advisory role as well as Project Lead on several international projects involving economics and econometrics. At the moment, she is also one of the Competition Commission Members of Competition Commission Brunei Darussalam (CCBD) at the national level.
Under her existing economics portfolio, she is also working with Think-Tanks in the region on matters related to labour economics and skills foresighting.
She received her PhD Economics from the University of Queensland where she majored in Labour
Economics and Econometrics. She is a regular Invited Speaker by overseas universities and international institutions on topics related to internationalization, international trade and skills foresighting.
Dr. Colin Doerr
Director
External Relations
British Columbia Council for International Education
Canada
Colin has worked in International Education and programming for over 18 years, managing both university as well as community-based International Education initiatives. He has worked to advance international mobility programs at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and has contributed to the support of community-based international development education programs through his tenure with Canada World Youth. Colin was also one of BCCIE’s early recipients of the Asia Pacific Award that enabled him to pursue language and cultural studies in Beijing, China. He has since finished graduate studies in Education at SFU and is now completing his doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of British Columbia.
Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin
Founder & Principal Consultant
Education Quality International and AUN-QA Expert
Singapore
Johnson is the founder and principal consultant of Education Quality International (EQI). He is also an AUN-QA Expert, AUN-QA’s “Green Jacket” Assessor and was the founding member of the AUN-QA Council (February 2013 – March 2015) and Technical Team (April 2015 and March 2022). He is actively involved in the AUN-QA assessment and training of Chief Quality Officers (CQOs), AUN-QA assessors and QA professionals at the AUN-QA Network. He is instrumental in the development, training and documentation of AUN-QA Framework and Guidelines at both programme and institutional levels. Johnson was also appointed as a QA expert in the ASEAN-QA Project Phase I and II; and at the East African Quality Assurance Forum organised by HRK and DAAD in 2012. He is currently a member of the QA expert group in the EU-SHARE project.
Johnson has been providing QA training, consulting and assessment to many universities in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. He has trained more than 2,000 QA practitioners, professionals and assessors since 2008. He has been invited to deliver keynote speeches in national, regional and international conferences including ASEAN Young Quality Officers Forum, BAN-PT Annual Meeting, Asian Network for Quality (ANQ) Congress, EU-SHARE QA Workshop and AUN-QA International Conferences.
He has more than 40 years of operational, quality and human resource management experiences in manufacturing, telecommunications, postal services, logistics, training and education, and has held key management and leadership positions in his career. His expertise has evolved from specialising in quality of product and service to the quality of life.
Johnson holds a Master Degree in Business Administration from the University of Leicester and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Economics and Management Studies from the University of London. He also holds a Specialist Diploma in Applied Learning and Teaching (SDALT) from Republic Polytechnic and an Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA) from the Institute of Adult Learning, Singapore.
Dr. Nguyen Thi My Ngoc
Deputy Director
Center for Educational Testing and Quality Assessment
Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City & AUN-QA Assesso
Vietnam
Dr. Nguyen Thi My Ngoc is the Deputy Director of the Center for Educational Testing and Quality Assessment, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City. Her key roles are to oversee the internal quality assurance system and accreditation of VNU-HCM and its member universities. She coordinates and provides QA training and consulting services within VNU-HCM and universities in Vietnam. She is also appointed as accreditor in Vietnam and an AUN-QA assessor.
Dr. My Ngoc holds a Ph.D. Degree in Higher Education from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) which focusses on three important aspects: Leadership and Management, Curriculum and Instruction, and Student Development. She also holds a Master Degree in Educational Management from the University of Education, Ho Chi Minh city. She has published a variety of national and international papers on education 4.0, teaching and learning in the 21st century, massification in higher education, internationalization of curriculum in Vietnam higher education institutions etc.
In her work capacity, Dr. My Ngoc serves as a facilitator in many training workshops relating to developing the capacity of quality assurance managers and officers. She also works closely with Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, AUN-QA expert as the co – facilitator to train educational managers, lecturers and quality officers in ASEAN universities. Among the training topics are AUN-QA Programme Framework (Tier 1) and Applied Approach to Designing and Implementing Outcome – Based Education (OBE) Framework Workshops organised by AUN-QA Network and Education Quality International (EQI) in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
In addition, Dr. My Ngoc also provides training and consulting in internal quality assurance (IQA) system and self-assessment report (SAR) writing to support the Vietnamese universities in both national and international quality accreditation.
Dr My Ngoc was the former Vice Director of Center for Education Accreditation, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City and the Secretary of VNU-HCM Quality Assurance Council. In her capacity, she has been the key contact person of important national and international quality assurance organizations such as INQAAHE, APQN, Institute of Quality Assurance – Vietnam National University Hanoi and VNU-HCM Chief Quality Officer of AUN-QA. Dr. My Ngoc’s current and previous employment has provided her with extensive experience with national and global mindsets in quality assurance in higher education.