Members are listed in alphabetical order by country.
Huang is the professor and head of the first Graduate program in Adult Education/HRDE of East China Normal University in China. Her main interests focus on: workplace learning and human resource development, organizational learning and learning organization, continuing professional development, lifelong education policies, learning communities, program planning and instructional design. She is a Fulbright Advanced Scholar (2007-2008) and the scholar financed by Pujiang Project. Now she is also the Vice President of Academic Committee of Chinese Association of Adult Education, Vice President and Scretary General of the Committee of Adult Higher Education. She has published more than 80 journal papers and 20 books in the relating fields.
Professor Un Shil Choi is President, Korean Federation of Lifelong Education, Dean of University Lifelong Education Institutes, and Professor of Graduate School of Education, Ajou University, Korea and is newly appointed as the president of National Institute of Lifelong Education, Korea.
Ineta Luka is Doctor of Pedagogy (Dr.paed.), a researcher of the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, the Faculty of Education and Psychology, the University of Latvia. She is an expert of the Latvian Council of Science; associate professor in pedagogy of higher education; the Head of Foreign Languages Department, methodologist of English for Special Purposes (ESP) at the School of Business Administration Turiba. Her research interests are connected with lifelong learning theories, English language teaching-learning, adult language learning theories and competence development. Her PhD thesis "Development of Students ESP Competence in Tourism Studies at Tertiary Level" offers an innovative approach for foreign language learning based on educator and student mutual cooperation and learning together. Ineta has authored a monograph devoted to language learning aspects, 34 scientific papers. She has experience in international and local projects connected with language education and lifelong learning, including organising scientific events. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the interdisciplinary scientific journal 'Journal of Education Culture and Society' issued by Interdisciplinary Science Club Variograf and AVEC Science Association, Poland.
Dr Nooreiny Maarof is an Associate Professor at The Faculty of Education, University Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia). She earned her BA (English) and MA (TESOL) from Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois and her PhD (Multilingual/Multicultural Education) from The Florida State University, Talahassee, Florida. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in education (TESL) and supervises both master and doctoral theses/dissertations for the TESL programme at the faculty. She is actively involved in research on education and TESL. She is also a member of advisory boards of TESL and education programs of public universities in Malaysia. She also sits on editorial boards of a number of local and international journals. She publishes in both local and international journals in education (TESL/TEFL). Dr Nooreiny was also the Deputy Dean, Faculty of Language Studies, International Coordinator, Graduate Center, UKM, Deputy Dean of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Education, and is currently the coordinator of the TESL program at the faculty. Her research interests include TESL, multicultural/multilingual issues in education, women and lifelong learning, culture in language teaching, ESL/EFL literacy and language testing and evaluation.
Professor, School of Educational Studies, Director of Office of Educational Services, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. She has published a number of books ,text-books and papers in the field of adult education, non-formal education, literacy, lifelong education and distance education. She conducted a number of research in the field of adult education, non-formal education, literacy, lifelong education and distance education for various target groups such as labour force, elderly people, women, etc. in Thailand.
Professor Tom Schuller is director of Longview, a thinktank promoting longitudinal and lifecourse research. From 2008-2010 Tom directed the independent Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, sponsored by the UK's National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education. He co-authored with Sir David Watson the Inquiry's main report, Learning Through Life, published in September 2009.
From 2003-2008 he was Head of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) at OECD, the Paris-based international think tank, with responsibility for CERI's projects relating to some 30 countries. He took a particular part in work on Measuring the Social Outcomes of Learning. Prior to that Tom was Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London; and co-director of the Research Centre on the Wider Benefits of Learning.
Tom Schuller is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and London, and holds a Dr Phil from the University of Bremen. He has authored some 15 books on a range of topics, from social capital to industrial democracy.
