The ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning has an Advisory Board, which consists of representatives from national ministries and international organisations.
Profiles of Advisory Board Members
National Strategies for Lifelong Learning
Toward the 3rd ASEM Education Ministers Meeting, 2011
Second ASEM Education Ministers Meeting, Hanoi May 2009
First ASEM Education Minsiters Meeting, Berlin May 2008
The current chairman of the Advisory Board is Zoltán Loboda, Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture.
Zoltán Loboda
"The cooperation between Asia and Europe in the field of lifelong learning for a more comprehensive and sustainable partnership is crucial. The ASEM Lifelong Learning Hub gives opportunity for researchers, practitioners and policy makers of the two regions to cooperate in this field of common interest.
The objective of the Advisory Board is to create a link between policy and practice, a meeting place for Asian and European stakeholders and a forum generating bilateral and multilateral projects; and to empower stakeholders through supporting policy learning".
The current Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board is Dr. Sumate Yamnoon, Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education, Thailand.
Dr. Sumate Yamnoon has been a Secretary-General Commission on Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Thailand since October, 2007. He received the Ph.D. in Applied Statistics and Research Methods from University of Northern Colorado, United States. Dr. Sumate has a wide range of experience in higher education management. He has undertaken the establishment of several university including, Suranaree University of Technology, Walailuk University, and Maefaluang University. He is also a member of the University Council of many universities both public and private in Thailand.
The First Chairman of the Advisory board was Jørn Skovsgaard, Danish Ministry of Education.
Jørn Skovsgaard
It was an honour and a pleasure for me to chair the initial work in the ASEM LLL initiative. In 2001 the initiative came in line with a number of ground breaking projects in international cooperation on education policy - The Lisbon Process and The Copenhagen process just to mention two initiatives facing the challenge of establishing a European community of education and at the same time maintain education as a national responsibility and a sovereign domain of the national state. However the ASEM LLL embraced deeper cultural, economic and technological diversities than any other international cooperation on education policy at the time.
And it focussed an area of education - LLL - that despite its potentials to the global and national economy and the well-being of a vast majority of people in our nations enjoyed little and in some countries no political attention at all. But we managed to bridge the gaps, create new awareness and turn diversity into an asset. I am truly grateful to the courageous, dedicated and like-minded members of our working groups - or as it made progress - a working family seems to be the more proper term to describe our relations. Today the outcome of the pioneers' hard work speaks for itself. We produced new concepts and developed new modes for cross border, cross regional and cross cultural cooperation. The organisation that we created - The ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning has already proved to be strong, productive and sustainable. It holds a huge potential - You ain't seen nothing - We are yet to begin!
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