Masters, Dr Geoff

Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER); immediate Past President of the Australian College of Educators; member of the UNESCO National Commission in Australia; member of the International Baccalaureate Research Committee; and Founding President of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association.

For more than 20 years, he has been an international leader in developing better measures of educational outcomes.

Bruniges, Dr Michele

Chief Executive of the Australian Capital Territory Department of Education and Training. Her areas of interest are quality teaching and using data to inform teaching and learning decisions.

Carroll, Ms Patricia

Principal/Director and founder of St George and Sutherland Community College, Sydney New South Wales, which provides a wide range of adult and community education and training, including to people with disabilities and new migrants.

Immediate past President, current Vice -President and member of Lobbying Sub-Committee, Community Colleges New South Wales.

Ciccarelli, Dr Anna

Executive Director and Vice President: International and Development portfolio, University of South Australia; Vice President of the International Education Association of Australia; member of the Education Adelaide Board of Directors; AVCC representative on the DEST Expert Group on Quality Assessment Trails.

de Leo OAM, Ms Joy

Manager, Learning Cities Conference, Education Adelaide; Member, Australian National Commission for UNESCO 2003 to 2005; Member Education Network 2000 - 2006; Founding President UNESCO- Australia - Asia Pacific Network for International Education and Values Education (APNIEVE); Former Director Multicultural South Australia; Former Regional Director AUSAID Adelaide.

Devlin, Assoc Prof Brian

President of the Australian College of Educators (Northern Territory Branch) and is an associate professor at Charles Darwin University. His experience includes several leadership positions: Dean of the Faculty of Education, Principal of Shepherdson College, Chair of the Northern Territory Education Advisory Council. He has also been a University-based teacher, researcher and consultant. Since 1986, at UNESCO's invitation, he contributed to educational programs and meetings in the Asia-Pacific region.

Evans, Prof Terry

Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Education at Deakin University. He has undertaken international consultancies on research, policy and educational development. He is currently participating in research in Papua New Guinea on the impact of curriculum reforms, and also on the provision of school-level distance education. He is also participating in research and publication on doctoral studies in Australia.

Fien, Prof John

Professor of Sustainability in the Innovation Leadership programme of RMIT University, where he is responsible for supporting research on social, environmental and economic sustainability in the business, design and social science areas. He has been a resource person for UNESCO in education for sustainable development at the Commission for Sustainable Development in New York and at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. He wrote the review of education for sustainable development “from Rio to Johannesburg” and the Strategic Framework and Action Plan for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. He also wrote and designed the UNESCO multimedia teacher education program, Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future <www.unesco.org/education/tlsf>.

Hughes AO, Prof Phillip

Has had extensive experience in education, with work in all Australian states and territories, with OECD in Paris and with UNESCO in Paris, the Arab Gulf States, Asia and the Pacific. He has taught at the University of Tasmania, Fujian Normal University, Cambridge University, Arizona State University, the University of Illinois and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His special research interests are in curriculum design and assessment and in quality teaching.

Knox, Ms Bronwyn

Currently Team Leader for Leadership and School Improvement at the Catholic Education Office Melbourne. A substantial part of her career has incorporated teaching students at primary, secondary and tertiary levels within the diverse cultural and educational contexts of Melbourne, London, Hanoi and rural Filipino farming communities. Bronwyn's contribution to the development and coordination of the UNESCO Teachers of the Future Initiative is an additional ongoing responsibility.

Lee Dow AM, Prof Kwong

Vice Chancellor of the University of Ballarat; former Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne (2004-2005) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne with special responsibility for human resource management1998-2004); Chair of the National Review of Teaching and Teacher Education (2002-2003); member of the National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership.

Mann, Ms Sue

Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Curriculum Corporation in December 2004. Prior to this, she was Chief Operating Officer of The Le@rning Federation, a joint venture of Curriculum Corporation and education.au ltd. She also worked as Projects Director with the Victorian State Board of Education, at the Faculty of Education at Monash University, and she was a member of a ministerial team for the establishment of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Board (VCAB).

McGaw AO, Prof Barry

Currently half-time Professorial Fellow and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne. Through McGaw Group Pty Ltd, he is working with Delfin Lend Lease on the development of a new education model for the communities of 25,000+ people that it develops. He was previously Director for Education at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, based in Paris, and earlier Executive Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research.

Penny, Mr Ian

Retired, positions held: teacher, adviser, principal and Senior Education Officer in the Department of Education in South Australia; Head of the Primary section of Prince Alfred College; Head of Marbury School. He is an active member of and immediate past Chair of the World Education Fellowship (WEF) - Australian Forum and of the South Australian Section of the World Education Forum.

Power AM, Prof Colin

Assistant Director-General for Education in UNESCO from 1989 -1998 and Deputy-Director General from 1999 until his retirement in May 2000. As such, he was responsible for all of UNESCO's education programs, institutes and centres during that time. He is currently President of the World Education Forum (Australia), Chair of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education (an alliance of 24 pan-Commonwealth education non-government organisations, and representing them at Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and Commonwealth Ministers' Conferences); editor-in-chief of the Asia-Pacific Education Research Journal (Educational Research for Policy and Practice) and Chair of the Board of EIDOS (an insitute for educational policy and research linking three Queensland Government Departments and six Universities).

Spring AO, Dr Geoff

For 20 years he has been Chief Executive of three Australian States and Territory Departments of Education, Training, Employment and Childrens' Services. Since 1980 he has chaired numerous national and international working parties committees and boards. He joined the Australian NATCOM in 1989 and has represented Australia and presented keynote addresses on many occasions in the Asia Pacific Region, the United Kingdom and Europe.

Wenn, Mr Maurice

Secretary of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA), the national Ministerial peak policy and coordinating body responsible for the education and training sector in Australia. Previously, he worked in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, the Victorian Department of Education & Training, the Tasmanian Education Department, and as a teacher and Principal in various government schools in Tasmania.

Wheeler, Ms Angela

Educational Manager, TAFESA Adelaide South located at the former Adelaide Institute of TAFE (UNESCO Centre For Excellence). She has also worked as a resource person for CPSC. She is currently the UNESCO/UNIVOC contact for the Institute.