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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOR CHAIRPERSONS AND PRESENTERS
(more biographies will be added to this page at a later
date)
Mr. Oscar Becerra
Director, Educational Technologies
Ministry of Education
Peru
Mr. Becerra is responsible for Peruvian
initiatives to support the improvement of public education
using ICT. Mr. Becerra has worked in the field of
Educational Computing and Technology for over 25 years. His
career has included managing the Education Sector in Latin
America for IBM Corporation. As a university professor he
developed the first Master’s Degree Program in Educational
Computing and Technology in Peru at the University of San
Martin de Porres and the first Educational Computing
Laboratory run by a School of Education at the Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima. He was Academic
Director at the San Ignacio de Loyola University in Peru and
was invited by the Beaconhouse School System and University
of Pakistan to help them develop their ICT in Education
initiatives. Mr. Becerra is member of the board of Kidlink
Society, a Norwegian foundation promoting global dialog
among school children, and was a visiting scholar at the
International Center for Technology in Education, University
of Hartford, USA. He was recently invited to present the
Peruvian OLPC initiative at the United Nations Committee for
Less Developed Countries in New York. Mr. Becerra holds a
Bachelor of Science in Physics from the National University
of Engineering in Peru, a Master of Education from the
University of Hartford, a Master of Informatics and
Educational Technology from the University of San Martín de
Porres in Peru, and is working on his doctoral dissertation
on Information Technology and the meaning of Education at
the graduate school of Psychology of the University of San
Martín de Porre.
Ms. Susan Bennett
Manager, International Cooperation
and Recognition Branch
Australian Department of Education, Employment and
Workplace Relations
Australia
Ms. Bennett manages
the International Cooperation and Recognition Branch in the
Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace
Relations (DEEWR). This Branch covers the work of bilateral
education and training relationships with South Asia, South
East Asia, the Middle East and Gulf countries, mulitilateral
engagement, and qualifications and professional recognition.
Ms. Bennett has worked for the Australian Government for
more than twenty years, including in the Departments of
Health and Ageing, Attorney-General’s, and the Office of the
Commonwealth Ombudsman. In DEEWR, she has worked in
International Education, Higher Education, Indigenous
Education and Income Support for Students. Prior to working
for the Australian Government, she worked in the health
sector in Australia and the UK, including on the National
Trachoma and Eye Health Program, which covered rural and
regional Australia. Ms. Bennett holds a Bachelor of Social
Work from the University of Queensland, and a Bachelor of
Letters in Political Science and a Master of Legal Studies
in Public Law from the Australian National University.
Mr. Steve Benson
Project Manager, International Education
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Mr. Benson is
currently Project Manager in the International Division of
the New Zealand Ministry of Education. He has been with the
Ministry since the early 1990s after a career in secondary
teaching. Prior to join the International team he was
senior policy manager for curriculum and assessment working
on a series of national curriculum and school qualifications
projects. Mr. Benson took part in the APEC symposium in
Beijing and Ministers’ Meeting in Santiago, Chile in 2004.
Mr. Al Byers
Assistant Executive Director of Government Partnerships
and e-Learning
National Science Teachers
Association
United States
At the National Science Teachers
Association (NSTA), the world’s largest professional
organization of science teachers, Mr. Byers leads an
exemplary team of individuals that ensure the timely
production of e-learning resources and online tools to
provide teachers across the nation with access to on-demand,
high quality professional development content to enhance
their effectiveness in the classroom. Prior to joining NSTA
in 2000, Mr. Byers worked on the staff of Oklahoma State
University as an instructor and Aerospace Education
Specialist for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and
assisted Goddard and the Space Telescope Science Institute
in the design, development, and implementation of NASA
education support curriculum. While at NASA he received a
National Group Achievement Award for his contribution on the
Space Experiment Module education program. Mr. Byers began
his career as a physical science educator, holds teaching
certificates in secondary science, physics, mathematics and
middle school, taught at the Virginia Governor’s School for
the Gifted, and received recognition as one of Chesterfield
County’s, Virginia’s Teachers of the Year.
Ambassador Juan Carlos Capuñay
2007 Deputy Executive Director of the APEC
Secretariat
Peru
Ambassador Juan Carlos Capuñay is the current Deputy
Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat and will become
the 16th Executive Director in 2008 when Peru hosts APEC.
Ambassador Capuñay has served as a diplomat in the Peruvian
Foreign Service since 1972 in a number of positions around
the Asia-Pacific including postings to China, Singapore,
Japan and the United Nations. Until his appointment as
Deputy Executive Director, Ambassador Capuñay was Peru's
Senior Official to APEC for four years. Ambassador Capuñay
is an economic graduate from the National University of San
Marcos and has received official decorations from Japan,
Korea and Chile.
Dr. George Tai-Jen Chen
Vice President for Academic Affairs
National Taiwan University
Chinese Taipei
Dr. Chen is the National Taiwan
University Chair Professor, Distinguished Professor of the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Vice President
for Academic Affairs at the National Taiwan University. He
has been serving at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences
at the National Taiwan University as a professor since 1975
and was Chairman of the Department, Dean of Academic Affairs
of the University, President of the Meteorological Society
of the Republic of China, and President of the Chinese
Geophysical Union. Dr. Chen’s research areas and interests
include Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology, Monsoon and the
Associated Disturbances, Mei-Yu Front and the Associated
Weather, and Mesoscale Climatology. In the past five years,
he has had 22 refereed journal articles and 15 conference
papers published. His major national awards and honors
include National Chair Professor of Ministry of Education,
Fellow of the Meteorological Society of the Republic of
China, and Outstanding Special Invited Research Fellow Award
of the National Science Council. Dr. Chen has a B.S. from
National Taiwan University and an M.S. and Ph. D. from the
State University of New York at Albany in the U.S.
Dr. Seong Woo Choi
Professor, Dept. of Lifelong Education
Soongsil University, Seoul
Republic of Korea
Dr. Choi is the
president of Korean Association for Educational Information
and Media, and the vice president of the Adult and
Continuing Education of Korea. He has been served as a
teacher of Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, research
fellow of Korea Education and Research Information Service,
and professor at Soongsil University since 1980. He also was
the secretary general and vice president of Institute of
APEC Collaborative Education in Korea during 2003–2006. Dr.
Choi’s research areas and interests are
Lifelong Educational Technology and
specifically cyber-education, e-Learning, and e-HRD. He also
gives lectures and participates in International Educational
Collaboration activities. Dr. Choi has a B.S. from
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and an M.S. and Ph.D.
from University of Southern California in the U.S.
Dr. Sunhee Choi
Department of English Education, College of Education
JeonJu University
Korea
Dr. Choi’s research interests include L2
teacher, task-based instruction, computer-assisted language
learning, and teacher education. In particular, she has been
focusing on examining the cognitive and affective effects of
utilizing ICT in language education. She has also worked and
researched in the area of teacher education; she was the
member of the Quality School Portfolio (QSP) project at
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) CRESST and the
Francis P. Collea Teacher Achievement Award Program (CTAAP)
Project at University of Southern California (USC), both of
which aim to develop and examine sound teacher training
programs. After getting her MS in TESL and PhD in Education,
Dr. Choi is now a faculty member of JeonJu University in
Korea.
Mr. Michael Cohen
President, Achieve, Inc.
United States
Mr. Cohen is a nationally recognized
leader in education policy and standards-based reform. He
has been the President of Achieve since 2003, which has been
named one of the most influential education policy
organizations in the U.S. Mr. Cohen held several senior
education positions in the Clinton Administration, including
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education
at the U.S. Department of Education, Special Assistant to
the President for Education Policy at the White House, and
Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley.
He led the Administration’s effort to design, enact and
implement Goals 2000, the first substantial federal
initiative to support state-led standards-based education
reform. He also played an instrumental role in the
development of all of the Administration’s K-12 education
initiatives. Earlier in his career, Mr. Cohen held key
positions in several national organizations that work with
state education policymakers, including the National
Governors Association and the National Association of State
Boards of Education. Dr. Joseph Conaty
Director, Academic Improvement and Teacher Quality Programs
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
U.S. Department of Education
United States
Dr. Conaty has had a long and notable
career at the U.S. Department of Education. The office he
currently manages administers a wide number of programs to
improve academic achievement and teacher quality. Previously
at the Department he has served as the Acting Director of
the Office of Research; Director of the National Institute
on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment; and
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of
Elementary and Secondary Education. Following receipt of a
Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1977, Dr. Conaty was a tenured Associate Professor at the
University of Utah. Before joining the Department in 1987,
Dr. Conaty spent two years at the University of Chicago as a
Visiting Professor of Sociology and Statistics. His
publications on statistics, education, and organizations
have appeared in such journals as the American Statistician,
the Journal of Business Research, Social Forces, the Journal
of Social Psychology, and Demography.
Ms. Milagros Dawa-Hernandez
Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority
The Philippines
Ms. Adriana de Kanter
Manager,
Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development
U.S. Department of Education
United States
Ms. Adriana de Kanter manages a division in the Policy
and Program Studies Service at the U.S. Department of
Education responsible for implementing Secretary Spellings
Doing What Works Initiative and serving as the U.S.
Education Representative to the Asian Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC). Recently, she also was the Project
Director for the U.S.-China E-Language Project, the largest
education initiative between China and the U.S. since the
normalization of relations in 1979. Her previous positions
in government include being the Special Advisor on
Afterschool Issues in the Office of the Secretary, Deputy
Director of the Planning and Evaluation Service, Director of
the Congressionally-mandate Study of Chapter 1 (the U.S.
government's largest K-12 program for poor children), and as
a staff member to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Education,
Arts, and Humanities. Ms. de Kanter also worked for the U.S.
Army, V Corps, in Frankfurt where she received the U.S.
government's second highest civilian award for her work on
revitalizing the Commanding General’s Review and Analysis
process. Finally, Ms. de Kanter entered the government as a
Presidential Management Fellow. She has published on a wide
variety of issues including bilingual education, parental
involvement, and afterschool programs.
Dr. Dou Xianjin
Doctor
of Labour Economics, Director of Lifelong Education
Chinese National Centre for Education Development Research
Dr. Dou is currently coordinator of the
research network on National Strategies of Lifelong Learning
with regard to citizen's motivation for and barriers to
continuing education and training in the ASEM Education and
Research Hub for Lifelong Learning. Previously, he was
Erasmus Mundus Scholar and visiting Professor at the Danish
University of Education from November 2006 through February
2007. Dr. Dou started his career in the Chinese Ministry of
Education in 1989. He was responsible for rural education
reform and vocational education policies in the Department
of Vocational and Adult Education for many years. His
research focused mainly on education policies, such as
strategies of establishing a lifelong learning system and a
learning society, lifelong learning and career development.
Dr. Patricia Duff
Professor and Graduate Advisor, Department of Language &
Literacy
Education
University of British Columbia
Canada
Dr. Duff’s research
examines second language (L2) acquisition and socialization,
task-based interaction, L2 education, and qualitative
research methods in applied linguistics. Her articles have
appeared in numerous journals and her recent books include
Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics, Inference and
Generalizability in Applied Linguistics, and Language
Socialization (Vol. 8, Encyclopedia of Language and
Education). She serves on the editorial boards of several
journals, edits the Research Issues section of the TESOL
Quarterly, chaired the Research Advisory Committee of the
International Research Foundation for English Language
Education for six years, and served for three years as a
Member-at-Large for the American Association for Applied
Linguistics. Dr. Duff has taught or lectured in Korea,
Japan, Canada, China, Australia, Egypt, Hungary, and the
United StatesIn 2004, she was awarded the title of
Distinguished University Scholar at the University of
British Columbia, and in 2007 she received the University of
British Columbia Killam Faculty Teaching Prize.
Dr. Bill Evers
Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy
Development
U.S. Department of Education
United States
Dr. Evers joined the U.S. Department of
Education in February 2007, as a senior advisor to Secretary
Spellings. Previously, Dr. Evers worked at Stanford
University's Hoover Institution where he was a research
fellow and a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on
K-12 Education. He has published research articles and
edited books on a variety of education policy issues –
especially in the areas of curriculum, teaching, testing,
accountability, and school finance. In 2003, Dr. Evers
served with the Department of Defense as a senior advisor
for education to Administrator L. Paul Bremer, III of the
Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, where he helped
re-start Iraqi schools. He has served on the White House
Commission on Presidential Scholars and the National
Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board. Dr. Evers
also served for three years as an elected trustee of Santa
Clara County Board of Education in California, and is the
former board president of a charter school. He has offered
his expertise on educational matters ranging from
professional development to grant applications, the content
of statewide tests, and statewide textbook adoptions. He
also taught political science at Santa Clara University and
Emory University. Dr. Evers received his bachelor's degree,
master's degree and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford
University.
Ms. LeAnn Eyerman
Former Coordinator
of Faculty and Curriculum Development
English Language Center, Ming Chuan University
Senior Staff
Office, Chinese Taipei EDNET Coordination
Chinese Taipei
From 1995-2007, Ms. Eyerman was
responsible for overseeing the curriculum and faculty of the
largest English Language program for non-majors in tertiary
education in Chinese Taipei, with over 70 faculty from
around 10 countries teaching 17,000 students on two
campuses. She was invited as an English Education Policy
Consultant on the Chinese Taipei Ministry of Education
Review Committee for the 6-Year National Development Plan
“The Challenge of 2008: e-Generation Human Capacity
Building” and as a Committee Member on the “Ministry of
Education Taskforce for the Promotion of English Language
Education.” Since 1998, she has worked under the auspices of
the Bureau of International Cultural and Educational
Relations of the Ministry of Education as Senior Staff
Officer for coordinating APEC EDNET affairs in Chinese
Taipei. Ms. Eyerman received her master’s degree from the
University of Massachusetts.
Ms. Robin Gilchrist
Counselor to the Secretary
U.S. Department of Education
United States
Ms. Gilchrist has served as Deputy
Chief of Staff and as a liaison to education associations at
the U.S. Department of Education. Previously she was the
director of the Texas Family Literacy Center and served as
assistant commissioner of education under then-Gov. George
W. Bush. A Texas native, Gilchrist earned a bachelor's
degree in economics and English from St. Edwards University
and a master's degree in public affairs from the University
of Texas.
Dr. Alan Ginsburg
Director of Policy
and Program Studies
Office of Planning,
Evaluation, and Policy Development
U.S. Department of Education
United States
Dr. Ginsburg’s
international work includes: Lead Shepherd (chair) of the
Human Resources Development Working Group; chair of the APEC
Education Network (EDNET);
co-director of the 2005 APEC Education Summit held in
Beijing, China; and co-project director for the Chinese-U.S.
project to develop an E-language Learning System to teach
English and Chinese over the Web. He recently completed
comprehensive benchmarking research comparing Singapore and
U.S. mathematics systems and a study of what we can learn
from the TIMSS and PISA results about international
mathematics performance and its causes. Dr. Ginsburg
received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of
Michigan. He received the Distinguished Presidential Rank
Service Award, the federal government’s highest award given
to its civil service employees. He also received the
American Evaluation Association’s Gunnar Myrdal award for
his contributions to the field of evaluation.
Dr. Maitree Inprasitha
University of Khon Kaen
Thailand
Mr. Dan Jones
Executive Dean, Center for
Instructional Systems Development
Coastline Community College
United States
Mr. Jones has been the Executive Dean
of the Office of Instructional System Development (Coast
Learning Systems) at Coastline Community College and a
Member of the Board of Directors for the American
Association of Community College's Instructional Technology
Council for the past eight years. He has more than 30 years
of experience designing and producing instructional media,
and was the principle architect for the Veterans
Administration's medical education satellite network,
employee-education videoconferencing network and the
Department of Energy's media development facilities. Mr.
Jones has managed the design and development of more than
700 instructional and informational videotapes,
publications, and e-learning projects. His extensive
background includes serving as the Director for Educational
Technology with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Learning University; Director of the VA National Media
Development Center; and Chief of the Veterans Health
Administration. He has been an instructor at numerous
colleges and universities, and has received more than 85
national and international awards for video, print, writing,
and multimedia including the National Endowment for the
Arts' Presidential Design Award, multiple Gold Screen
Awards, and eight Emmy Awards for Instructional and
Industrial programming. Mr. Jones earned a bachelor's in
business administration from California State University,
Bakersfield and a master's in communications from American
University, Washington, DC.
Mr. Ken Kay
InfoTech Strategies
President, Partnership for 21st
Century Skills
United States
Mr. Kay is chairman and co-founder of
Infotech Strategies, Inc., and leads Infotech's Education
Technology practice. He has been a major voice in defining
the potential and promoting the importance of information
technology applications in critical areas such as education,
health care, electronic commerce and government services.
Mr. Kay serves as president of the Partnership for 21st
Century Skills, an organization of both public and private
sectors working with stakeholders to reach consensus on how
21st century skills should be incorporated into K-12
curriculum. Mr. Kay has formerly served as executive
director for the CEO Forum from 1996 to 2001, facilitating
dialogue between leaders in the business, government and
education fields, and as the founding executive director of
the Computer Systems Policy Project, the primary CEO
advocacy group for IT policy in the United States. Prior to
founding Infotech Strategies, he was a principal of Podesta
Associates, Inc., after spending nearly ten years as a
partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Preston Gates
Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds. Mr. Kay earned his law degree from
the University of Denver.
Mr. Byong-Hyun Lee
Director-General, International Cooperation and Information
Technology
Bureau
Ministry of
Education and Human Resources Development
Republic of
Korea
Mr. Lee is a
career diplomat, having served the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) of the Government of Korea in
various capacities, including Minister of the Korean
Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Director of the
United Nations Policy Division at MOFAT, and foreign
postings at Korean missions in Malaysia, Rwanda and
Portugal. Mr. Lee studied liberal arts and law at Seoul
National University and earned a master’s degree at
L’Institut International d’Administration Publique in
France.
Mr. Liu Bing
Deputy Director, Division of
Resource Construction and Management
Hanban
Dr. Anne Pakir
Department of
English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Dr. Pakir specializes in language
policy and planning with a focus on English in Singapore and
in Southeast Asia and on the development of English as a
world language. She has more than 60 publications,
including books and chapters on language policy, language
management, English-knowing bilingualism, lexicography, and
Baba Malay. An applied linguist, she serves on the
editorial boards of multiple prominent journals and book
series. Dr. Pakir has previously served as President of the
Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics, President of
the International Association for World Englishes, President
of the Association of Asian Lexicology and Lexicography, and
Vice-President of the Fulbright Association (Singapore).
Currently, she is a Board Member of TOEFL, Princeton, NJ,
and President of the Fulbright Association (Singapore).
Dr. Shizumi Shimizu
University of Tsukuba
Japan
Dr. Shimizu was a keynote speaker at
the last Khon Kaen meeting. He has worked in the Ministry of
Education of Japan for ten years. He is in charge of
curriculum development, implementation (lesson study) and
evaluation in the Ministry. He is now a vice president of
the Japan Society of Mathematical Education.
Mr. Quentin Stevenson-Perks
Australian Embassy in Beijing
Australia
Mr. Stevenson-Perks
commenced as AEI Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in
Beijing in July 2007. Prior to this appointment, he worked
for two years in AEI’s National Office in Canberra dealing
with the education industry across Australia on
international education issues after having completed a
posting as AEI’s Counsellor in New Delhi, India from 2002 to
mid-2005. Mr. Stevenson-Perks is a highly experienced
officer of the Australian Government’s Department of
Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR),
having extensive experience in education across a broad
range of education sectors that contribute to the quality
framework that underpins Australian international education
objectives. In China, Mr. Stevenson-Perks is responsible
for AEI’s Hong Kong and Guangzhou Offices, the Vocational
Education and Training and Schools Sectors and education
services covered by the proposed Australia-China Free Trade
Agreement.
Dr. Wang Shangzhi
Capital
Normal University, Beijing
China
Ms. Phoenix Wang
Program Officer, Education Program
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
United States
Ms. Wang’s current focus is on
technology-based grants in the areas of open educational
resources and K-12 instructional improvement. She has a
long-term career interest in technological innovations that
enable people to learn, share, and collaborate. Prior to
joining the Hewlett Foundation, Ms. Wang was the Director of
Business Development at iVillage Inc., one of the first
social networks for women. She was a manager at Accenture
Consulting, where she led the development of web-based
training programs for multi-national clients in financial
services and telecommunications. She holds a B.A. in
Religion and Asian Studies from Williams College and an Ed.M.
from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Ms. Wang Wenjin
Deputy Director of Information
Division
Central Institute of Vocational and
Technical Education
Ministry of Education
China
Ms. Wang has a long history of experience and expertise is
ICT, principal and teacher training, distance education, and
project management. She has served as a local consultant for
numerous projects from the WorldBank, and SIDA, Sweden. Ms.
Wang has training in instructional technology, teacher
training, physics, and physics education from Beijing Normal
University and Ohio State University. She has published
articles in Science Education (U.S.), Physics
Teachers (U.S.), Beijing Union University Journal,
and Higher Education Research (China). Mr. Keisuke Yoshio
Director, International Affairs
Division
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology
Japan Mr. Yoshio
previously was Vice President and Executive Officer at Akita
International University in Japan. He has been with the
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology since 1980. He has served as a director since
1996 in a number of positions such as Cultural Affairs,
Sports, and Science and Technology Affairs. Mr. Yoshio also
has experiences with dispatches to the UNESCO liaison office
in New York and OECD in Paris.
Dr. YoungHwan Kim
APEC EDNET Coordinator
Mr. Zang Xinsheng
Vice-Minister of Education
China
Mr. Zhang is Vice Minister of Education
of the People’s Republic of China and Chairperson of the
Chinese National Commission for UNESCO. He was elected
Mayor of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, for two terms,
starting in 1989. Mr. Zhang has served as Chairperson of the
Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Administrative
Committee, Vice Chairman of the China National Tourism
Administration, and Deputy to the 7th and 8th
China National People’s Congress. Mr. Zhang earned a
Master’s Degree with distinction from the Graduate School of
Design at Harvard University, has studied and served as
visiting research fellow at Harvard Business School, and is
a graduate of China Military Academy of Technology and
Hangzhou University.
Mr. Zhang Yun
Ministry of Education
China
"Education to Achieve 21st
Century Competencies and Skills for All: Respecting the
Past to Move Toward the Future" is co-sponsored by Ministerio de Educación República del Perú, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and the
United States Department of Education on behalf of APEC's Education Network.
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