A CGHE – OBREAL Webinar Series: From Global to Inter-Regional Higher Education

Ramon Torrent is President of Observatorio de las Relaciones UE – AL: OBREAL, an association of universities and higher education networks from the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and India. He was until his retirement in September 2017 a Professor of Political Economy and International Economic Law at the Universidad de Barcelona. He has coordinated a number of International, EU-funded, projects of cooperation in Higher Education with Latin America, the Mediterranean, the EU’s Neighbouring Countries and Africa. He launched the process of the Arab – Euro Conferences on Higher Education (AECHE) and was the scientific coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project EULAC Focus (“Giving Focus to the cultural, scientific and social dimension of EU – CELAC relations.

Olusola Oyewole is the Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities (AAU), with Headquarters in Accra, Ghana. He is a Professor of Food Science and Technology (Food Microbiology and Biotechnology) at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, from where he is currently on sabbatical leave to AAU.

He was the Vice Chancellor of the University from May 2012 to May, 2017. Professor Olusola Oyewole has over 36 years experience working in the African higher education space, and has over 100 scholarly publications to his credit.

Howard Davies is a senior adviser to European University Association [EUA], with particular responsibility for monitoring legislation on professional qualifications and international trade agreements. He has been a member of many Bologna process and European Commission working groups, participating in EU projects on academic recognition, supporting higher education reform in countries neighbouring the EHEA.

Elizabeth Colucci is Director of Global Projects at OBREAL and an Adviser for Higher Education Policy and Internationalisation. Her specialties include EU policy making and regional integration, EU project management and funding instruments, European tertiary education and research policy, international education, education for development cooperation, ICT and digitalisation in education, higher education and research for sustainable development.