Jacques Bessières est actuellement associé de Connectica, société de conseil spécialisée dans le management des technologies de l'information et de leur impact sur les organisations. Son domaine de prédilection est le tourisme et l'éducation. Il possède une expérience de 25 ans dans l'enseignement, le conseil et la direction informatique. Dans le monde de l'éducation il a enseigné pendant cinq années le cours d'«Information Technology in Hospitality Industry» à l'Institut de Management Hôtelier International (IMHI), mastère du groupe ESSEC et de l'Université Cornell. Il conduit actuellement des recherches auprès des universités américaines qui envoient leurs étudiants passer leur « junior year » en France. Dans le monde du tourisme, il a assuré des missions de conseil auprès du CRT Ile de France (concepteur du projet de base données IDF Medi@), de la compagnie Star Airlines (système informatique de productivité du personnel navigant), du Club Méditerranée (conception du premier site Internet), des Hôtels CONCORDE (système de gestion et de fidélisation des clients), de l'hôtel MERIDIEN de New-York (schéma directeur du système d'information et de communication), du CDT Haute Saône (plan marketing et site Internet), de la Communauté Urbaine de Nancy (site Internet), du voyagiste Wingate (système de réservation des packages) et du Ministère Polonais du Tourisme (plan de communication Internet). En temps que directeur informatique il a lancé le site Internet de réservation de prestations touristiques pour la société LibertyTV.com. Il était auparavant directeur des systèmes d'information du Groupe Chargeurs. Il est diplômé de l'ESSEC et de l'université Laval à Québec. Jacques Bessières contribue régulièrement à la chronique Nouvelles Technologies du journal «L'Hôtellerie» et publie ses recherches sur le tourisme dans la revue Espaces. Il est membre du Conseil National du Tourisme depuis 1996 en tant qu'expert en technologies de l'information et fait partie du bureau de l'AFEST, l'association française des Experts et des Scientifiques du Tourisme. |
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Ladislav Cerych founded the EIESP in 1975 and directed it up to 1990. He was responsible for the strategic role played by the EIESP in the launching of the European Commission programmes of student mobility, in particular the design and management of the Joint Study Programme (JSP) which was conceived as a pilot operation for the ERASMUS programme and also partially for COMETT. Under the directorship of Ladislav Cerych the experience gained in this area proved crucial for the development of the EIESP in contributing to the design of programmes that targeted Central/Eastern Europe, essentially TEMPUS and PHARE, from 1989 onwards. He was also responsible for the role played by the EIESP in the design and inception of PACE (Programme of Advanced Continuing Education) which established links between universities and enterprises through satellite communication. Sponsored by a dozen major IT companies, PACE was conceived as distance advanced training for company personnel through satellite technology during the mid 1980s. Following his retirement, Ladislav Cerych established and became Director of the Education Policy Centre at the Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague. He was earlier in his career Director of Studies at the College of Europe (Bruges) and at the Atlantic Institute and Head of the Higher Education programme at OECD. |
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Anne Corbett is a journalist and Visiting Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. (LSE) She has extensive knowledge of European education policies and EU policymaking. As a journalist based in Paris for 20 years, and specialising in education and social policy, she was a regular contributor to the British press and a columnist for the Times Educational Supplement on French policy and European education issues. In 2002 she completed a political science PhD at LSE on the EC/EU's higher education policy making: Ideas, institutions and policy entrepreneurship in European Community higher education policy, 1955-1995 (London University 2002). She was a special adviser to the House of Lords enquiry on Student Mobility (1998). With Hilary Footitt, she edited a British Academy supported pamphlet Crossing the Channel: promoting academic mobility (Franco-British Council 2001). She is co-editor, with Bob Moon, of Education in France, Continuity and Change in the Mitterrand Years, 1981-1995, London, Routledge 1996, reprinted 2000. |
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Raymond Georis: was the Secretary-General of the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam) for 23 years. In this role he was responsible for The 'Plan Europe 2000' which was the first interdisciplinary, international, comparative study to reflect on the future of European society in the 21st century. Under his leadership the Foundation was closely involved with major European educational programmes: managing ERASMUS and EURYDICE on behalf of the European Commission and closely cooperated with the Commission on the TEMPUS programme. It also established 10 institutes including the European Institute of Education and Social Policy in 1975 in Paris. He has been a member of the governing body of the EIESP since its creation in 1975 and was treasurer up to 2004. Raymond Georis was Managing Director of the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Co-operation (NEFIC, Brussels) until 2004. He is currently Managing Director of the Madariaga Foundation |
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Guy Haug is an expert on education (in particular higher education) systems, policy and cooperation in a European/world-wide setting. He worked for the European University Association where he was instrumental in shaping and developing the "Bologna Process" towards a coherent European Higher Education Area. He served as Director-General for Europe of the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), New-York/Paris, and has worked with many NGOs involved in international education in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia. He has worked with international organisations (Council of Europe, Nordic Council of Ministers, OECD, UNESCO) and in particular with the European Commission for the inception of the ERASMUS and TEMPUS programmes and more recently (2002-2005) for the development of a European agenda for university reforms and modernisation. |
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Hywel Ceri Jones held several positions of responsibility at the European Commission from the early-seventies to 1999. He was Director-General for Social and Employment Policy from 1995-1999 and prior to that Director of the Task Force for Education, Training and Human Resources. In this latter role he was responsible for the conception and establishment of the first generation of education programmes by the European Commission: Erasmus, Comett, Petra. He is the Chairman of the Governing Body of the European Policy Centre in Brussels. Hywel Jones has been as member of the EIESP's governing body since its creation in 1975 and was Chairman of the board from 2001-2004. He is currently Director of the Network of European Foundations (NEF). |
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Alain Michel became Chairman of the Administrative Board of the EIESP in 2004. He is an Inspector Général in the French Ministry of Education and has extensive experience in the areas of education policy, evaluation and assessment, forecasting and prospective, economics and sociology of education and teacher training in France and internationally. He was a member of the Governing Board of CERI /OECD from 1994 to 2004 and is a member of the INES Strategic Management Group for whom he acted as the general rapporteur at the General Assembly of INES in Lahti (Finland) in 1995. His international activities also involve reflection on the future of education as he has been a member of the steering group of "The school of tomorrow" activity since 1998 and works as an expert/ consultant for Unesco, the European Commission and the Council of Europe. He is a former president of the French National Association of Education Administrators and director of the review Administration et Education. Alain Michel is a Scientific Advisor to the association Futuribles International. From 1978 - 1984 he was the Deputy Dean of the French Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) and was an Advisor to the Secretary of State for Education in France from 1989 to 1991.
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Director of the Cabinet of the Rector of the Académie de Paris
since April 2004. From 2002 to 2004 he was an advisor in the Cabinet of
Luc Ferry, the Minister of Youth, National Education and Research. He
has been a member of the Association Française des Administrateurs
de l'Éducation (AFAE) since 1991 and on the editorial board of
its journal Administration et Éducation of which he has been Chief
Editor since March 2000. He has held posts as a teacher and headteacher
in France and several posts abroad for the French Ministry of Education:
in Moravia from 1989 to 1992, in Tunis from 1993 to 1995 and he was Deputy
Director of the Centre de coopération culturelle et linguistique
in Phnom-Penh from 1998 to 1999. He was responsible for international
relations for the Rector of the Académie de Paris from 1999 to
2002. |
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Bernard de Montmorillon is President of the University of Paris-Dauphine and is a member of the French Conseil National des Universités. He is president of the (Comité des Relations Extérieurs de la Conférence des Présidents des Universités) CORREX. He is also the Director of a doctoral course in human resources management at the University of Paris-Dauphine. The University of Paris-Dauphine is an ex-officio member of the EIESP. |
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| George Papadopoulos is a former Deputy-Director of Education at OECD. He has written extensively on educational policy and planning issues. He presented his experience in his book Education 1960-1990: The OECD Perspective, OECD (1994). He works now as an independent consultant in education and training. | |
Gerhard Welbers is the Director of IFAPLAN GmbH (Cologne) and IFAPLAN-EUROPS (Brussels). His main areas of professional activity since 1970 have been research and policy analysis in the fields of education, vocational training, unemployment and labour market integration. IFAPLAN has been providing technical assistance to the European Commission since 1976, for the implementation of vocational training programmes such as the TRANSITION from school to work programmes, PETRA, EMPLOYMENT, ADAPT, and currently EQUAL. |
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Lesley Wilson is the Secretary General of the European University Association (EUA), an organisation which represents 34 Rectors Conferences across Europe and over 600 individual institutions. Previous to that, from 1999 to 2001, she was the Head of Department for Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, at the European Training Foundation (Turin, Italy). In this capacity she was responsible for redesigning ETF policy, planning and monitoring of ETF activities as well as for managing the technical assistance team of the TEMPUS programme. Lesley Wilson has substantial expertise in the strategic management of international organisations and has held posts in several organisations. From 1996 to 1999 she was Director of UNESCO's European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES), Bucharest, where she was responsible for elaborating the Centre's strategy for supporting Europe-wide academic cooperation through research, policy studies and programme implementation. She was Head of the Science Policy Unit at the European Science Foundation (ESF) in Strasbourg where she was responsible for setting up the Policy Studies Unit and overseeing input to EC Framework Programmes and was, prior to that Director of the EC TEMPUS Office in Brussels. |
