Zhaksybek Kulekeev

Professor, Candidate of Economic Sciences, adviser of the CEO of Research Institute of Production and Drilling Technologies "KMG", member of National Scientific Council of Ministry of Education and Science, member of Expert Council on Economics of the national chamber of entrepreneurs, ex-chairman of the Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ex-minister of economics and trade of Republic of Kazakhstan, ex-chairman of Accounts Committee for Control over Execution of the Republican Budget, ex-minister of education of Republic of Kazakhstan, ex-rector of the Academy of public administration under the president of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ex-president of the JSC National Company KazakhstanTemirZholy, author of more than 10 books, 100 articles and monographies.

Michèle Wera

Senior policy advisor at Quality Assurance of Accreditation Organisation of The Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). Former policy adviser of Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB). Former manager of project ARQATA in Armenia. She has a special interest in the quality assurance of medical programs.

Colin Tück

Director of European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) since its establishment. Former member of the European Students’ Union’s (ESU) Bologna Process Committee, ex-member of the Executive Board of the National Union of Students in Germany.

Petra Pistor

Dipl.-Foto-Des., M.A. (German Language and Literature Studies & Photography Design) works at the Centre for Higher Education Development and Quality Enhancement (CHEDQE) of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her responsibility here lies within the area of evaluation and the university’s accredited quality management system.

Since 2005 Petra Pistor has worked on a variety of evaluation projects (teaching, research, services and organisations as a whole) in higher education. Actual, her working activities are focused on different evaluation projects and trainings in the field of higher education quality management both in Germany as well as internationally, especially in East and also West Africa. As a freelancer she works as consultant, reviewer and trainer in various contexts for Higher Education Institutions.

Leonid Grebnev

Doctor of Sciences in Economic Theory, Professor-researcher, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Member of the Editorial Board of «Highher education in Russia, former member of the Expert Council, Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation, former Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, author of publications and books, author of series of articles and books.

Maiki Udam

PhD, Director of Development and International Cooperation at Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (EKKA), Director of the Board at the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE). Author of more than 15 articles, a contributor and a coordinator of research projects and ENQA projects.

Elena Efimova

Deputy Director of National Accreditation Agency of Russia, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, corresponding member of the Academy of Management and the Market, chair of the Department of Management, State and Municipal Management, Director of the Institute of Economics and Management. Author of two study guides for higher education institutions on management, five monographs, over fifty academic papers and publications.

Andrey Verbitsky

Proffesor, Doctor of Pedagogy, academician of Russian Academy of Education, honored worker of Higher Professional Education of Russia, Candidate of Psychological Sciences creator of the Context Education Theory in higher education, creator of the Context Education Theory in higher education.

Elena Petrov

PhD, associate professor, Vice President of National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education and Research (ANACEC), former head of Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Youth of the Republic of Moldova, former project coordinator at the international non-governmental charity Lumos Foundation in Moldova.

Esther Huertas Hidalgo

Esther Huertas Hidalgo (Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Barcelona, 2010) is a senior advisor at the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya). Currently, she is the chair of ENQA's working group on quality assurance and e-learning and the work package leader of quality assurance in online higher education in the TeSLA project (H2020 Ref. : 688520). Huertas participates in different international groups such as the European Consortium for Accreditation and the AUDIT network and she has also contributed to international seminars such as ENQA Workshops, EQAF, etc. She has served as researcher and assistant professor at the University of Barcelona.

BAKTYBEK ISMAILOV

Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Director of the Independent Agency for Accreditation of Educational Programs and Organizations (Kyrgyzstan), Academician of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences of the Russian Federation, has received accreditation training in the USA, Germany, Belgium and Kyrgyz Republic, has experience in international accreditation and pilot accreditation in 28 educational institutions and independent accreditation in 60 schools since the introduction of independent accreditation in Kyrgyz Republic.

Mustafa Babanli

Rector, Professor, Azerbaijan Oil and Industry University.

BOTIR USMONOV

Vice-rector in scientific work at the Muhammad al-Khwarizmi Tashkent University of Information Technologies , associate professor at the M. Lomonosov Moscow State University's branch in Tashkent, ex-deputy minister of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic Uzbekistan.

TAKIR BALYKBAYEV

Professor, doctor of pedagogical sciences, rector of the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, served as head of the sector in the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ex-vice minister of education and science of the RK, ex-rector of the International Academy of Business, ex-rector of the Kazakh University of Technology and Business, ex-president of the Y. Altynsarin Kazakh National Academy of Education., ex-chairman of the Committee for Supervision and Attestation in Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ex-director of the National Center for State Standards of Education and Testing, ex-pro-rector for teaching and methodical work of the Kazakh National Agrarian University, author of more than 140 scientific articles, 5 monographs, textbooks and teaching aids, more than 10 standards and 20 instructions on education and testing.

DAMIR SHYNYBEKOV

Professor, doctor of economic sciences, rector of the International Information Technologies University, ex-vice-rector of the Kazakh Academic University, deputy of Maslikhat of Bostandyk district of Almaty city, member of the Management Committee of the Autonomous Cluster Fund "Park of Information Technologies", member of the Public Council of Almaty city, member of the Political Board of Nur Otan "Bostandyk branch of Almaty, a member of the Higher Scientific and Technical Commission under the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, academician of the International Academy of Informatization (Moscow), academician of the International Academy of Telecommunications (Moscow), academician of the International Academy of Communications (Moscow), member of the International Informatization Academy (Almaty), has published 76 articles.

GULMIRA KURGANBAYEVA

Candidate of Economic Sciences, MPA, Rector Almaty Management University; was an invited researcher at the Duke University School of Public Policy in Stanford, worked for various years in the Agency for the Regulation of the Regional Financial Center of Almaty, the Information and Analytical Center of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Secretariat of the Security Council, the Deputy Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies, Research Institute of Development of Kazakhstan, the author of more than 50 publications, 5 monographs.

Abdilbaet Mamasydykov

Rector, Educational research and production complex K.Sh. Toktomamatov International University, Professor, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Kyrgyzstan .

Rinat Iskakov

Vice-rector for academic work, K.I. Satpayev Kazakh National Research Technical University, Associate professor, Doctor of Chemical Sciences.

Peeter M. Järvelaid

Vice-Rector for Innovation and Strategic Development of the Ilyas Zhansugurov Zhetysu State University, Doctor of the Science of Law, Professor.

Berik Akhmetov

Rector of Caspian State University of Technology and Engineering of the name of Sh. Yessenov, Canditate of Technical Sciences.

Dariya Kozhamzharova

Rector of the South-Kazakhstan State University named after M.Auezov. Academician of NAS of RK, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.

Aida K. Sagintayeva

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the Nazarbayev University, доцент, Member of Advisory Board of M.H. Dulati Taraz State University, Member of American Educational Research Association (AERA), British Education Research Association (BERA), Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Association for the analysis of Higher education (ASHE). Awarded with the badges "Honorable worker in education of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "Ybyrai Altynsarin".