Report for Nominations of Experts for Database of Consultants
Aimed at enhancing the database of consultants for use by national systems or institutions in various areas of quality assurance in tertiary education and seeking nominations from its member organizations, APQN Secretariat has sent all members an email “Call for nominations of experts for Database of Consultants” on January 2020. Thanks to all members’ warm cooperation and careful consideration, APQN Secretariat has collected 51 submissions in March, which contributes a lot to the further development of the database of consultants.
APQN encourages each APQN member to nominate qualified candidates and show great passion for all nominations. After collecting those submissions, a special-establish APQN Review Committee has reviewed the Consultant Database of the above all applications in April. APQN Review Committee is composed of Prof Dr. Jianxin Zhang, Prof Dr. Galina Motova, Dr. Jagannath Patil, Ms I-Jung Grace Lu, Ms Farida Nurmanbetova, Prof. Deepthi C. Bandara and Ms Pingping Liu. After being reviewed by all the members of the Committee, the final decision was made. 46 from 51 submissions stands out and are qualified nominees according to the review committee.
The consultants are focused on the following three areas to strengthen a global database: (1) general quality assurance consultants; (2) consultants in institutional quality assurance; (3) consultants for programmatic quality assurance
We appreciate it very much that all members and review committees devote quite much to the whole process.
You can find information in details in APQN website:
https://www.apqn.org/services/consultants
Congratulations to the following consultants!
Table 1: 46 New Consultants in Consultant Database
Member of ECAQA; Deputy Director for Clinical and Academic Affairs
| # | Name | Country | Current Position | Organization |
| 1 | Farida Nurmanbetova | Kazakhstan | Adviser of ECAQA | ECAQA - Eurasian Сentre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care |
| 2 | Lyazzat Yeraliyeva | Kazakhstan | Member of ECAQA; Deputy Director for Clinical and Academic Affairs | National Scientific Center of Phthisiopulmonology of the Republic of Kazakhstan” of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan |
| 3 | Deepthi Chandrika Bandara | Sri Lanka | Senior Professor | University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| 4 | Cloud Bai-Yun | Britain | CEO | ECCTIS Ltd [UK NARIC] |
| 5 | James Freeman | Britain | Senior Analyst | ECCTIS Ltd [UK NARIC] |
| 6 | Fabrizio Trifiro’ | Italy | Head of Quality Benchmark Services | ECCTIS Ltd [UK NARIC] |
| 7 | V. Ariya Sumanasinghe | Sri Lanka | Retired Professor | Univeristy of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| 8 | PRATHIBA ARUNI WEERASING HE | Sri Lanka | Senior professor | RAJARATA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA |
| 9 | Asha Sajeewani Karunaratne | Sri Lanka | Professor | Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka |
| 10 | Jahfer Athambawa | Sri Lanka | Professor and Head of Department of Accountancy and Finance | South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka |
| 11 | Charmalie Anuradhie Dona | Sri Lanka | Professor | University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka |
| 12 | Dayalatha Lekamge | Sri Lanka | Retired Professor | Was at the Open University of Sri Lanka till July 2019 |
| 13 | Gunasingham Mikunthan | Sri Lanka | Director/CQA, Dean/Graduate studies, Director/Well-Being Centre, Chairman/Board of Management | University of Jaffna |
| 14 | Fathuma Hansiya Abdul Rauf | Sri Lanka | Professor in Management | South Eastern University of Sri Lanka |
| 15 | Perera | Sri Lanka | Chair Professor & Dean (Until April 2020) | University of Colombo |
| 16 | Jayasinghe Mudiyanselag e Pushpa Kumara | Sri Lanka | Emeritus Professor | NA |
| 17 | Shanmugaling am Nagalingam | Sri Lanka | Professor Emeritus Sociology/Visiting Professor in Sociology | University of Jaffna |
| 18 | Nanda Wipula Bandara Balasooriya | Sri Lanka | Senior Lecturer | University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| 19 | Ranjith Mahanama Kariyawasam Ranaweerage | Sri Lanka | Senior Professor Dean/Science | University of Colombo |
| 20 | Ruwan Duminda Jayasinghe | Sri Lanka | Professor | Univeristy of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| 21 | Sepalika Chandrani Jayamanne | Sri Lanka | Professor Cum, Dean/Animal Science and EYesport Agriculture | Vice Chancellor/Uva Wellassa University |
| 22 | Sudhira Yasapriya De Silva | Sri Lanka | Senior Lecturer (Gr. I) | University of Ruhuna |
| 23 | Prof P Vinobaba | Sri Lanka | Senior Professor in Zoology | Vice-Chancellor, Eastern University |
| 24 | Nimalakith Gnanaseeli Samarakoon Jayasekara Mudiayansela ge | Sri Lanka | Senior Lecturer (Grade-I) | Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka |
| 25 | Muhammad Arif | Pakistan | Director Quality Enhancement Cell | Institute of Business Management(IoBM) |
| 26 | Abigail Jones | Britain | Head of International Projects | UK NARIC |
| 27 | Ahmadullah Hilali | Afghan | Lecturer | Ministry of Higher Education |
| 28 | Vasily Makolov | Russia | Head of Quality and Accreditation Office | Russian State University for Humanities |
| 29 | Aleksey Kuzmin | Russian Federation | Associate Professor, Head of department | Baltic state technical university “VOENMEH” named after D.F.Ustinov |
| 30 | Salman Saif | Pakistan | Registrar | National TeYestile University |
| 31 | Lisa Collett | British | Director / Technical EYespert / Senior Researcher | Cotswold Research Consultancy |
| 32 | Oksana Matveeva | Russia | Deputy Head of Accreditation Office | NCPA - the National Centre for Public Accreditation |
| 33 | Timur Tabishev | Russia | Head of Licensing and Accreditation Department | Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov» |
| 34 | Vladimir Zorin | Russia | Head of Department | Moscow Automobile and Road State Technical University |
| 35 | Svetlana Pesina | Russia | Head of Department of English | Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University |
| 36 | Natalya Filimonova | Russia | Head of department «Economy and Organization of Agricultural Production» | Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University |
| 37 | Mikhail Berengarten | Russia | Professor | Moscow Polytech University |
| 38 | Natalia Tarkhanova | Russia | associate professor | South Ural state University (research University) |
| 39 | Elena Savinykh | Russia | Head of Methodology Office, | NCPA - the National Centre for Public Accreditation |
| 40 | Natalia Borozinets | Russia | Director Of the resource center for training disabled people | North Caucasus Federal University |
| 41 | Nikolay Tarasevich | Russia | Vice-rector for educational and methodological work | State Federal-Funded Educational Institution of Higher education Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory |
| 42 | Ekaterina Egorova | Russia | Head of EYespert and Analytics Management Department | Moscow Pedagogical State University |
| 43 | Svetlana Panasenko | Russia | Head of the basic Department of trade policy | Plekhanov Russian university of economics |
| 44 | AleYesandr Kurylev | Russia | Head of research and educational center of professional competencies | Astrakhan State Technical University |
| 45 | Marina Kurdiumova | Russia | Manager of the International Relations Office | National Centre for Public Accreditation |
| 46 | Sergei Shirobokov | Russia | Director of Public Relations and Associate Professor of Education | Omsk State Pedagogical University |
(Written by Yingjie Xu, APQN Administrator)
