Brainstorming meeting with external resource persons on long term outlook for Asia / tertiary education and positioning of AIT

From left: Prof. Sudip Rakshit,
VP Research; Mr. Harinder Kohli;
AIT Pres. Said  Irandoust; Mr. Javed Hamid; Dr. Nitin
Afzulpurkar,
and Mr. Karma Rana.

On 7 May 2009, AIT President Said Irandoust and some AIT
colleagues had a brainstorming meeting with external resource persons
Mr. Harinder Kohli and Mr. Javed Hamid on topics
related to the long-term economic and social outlook for Asia,
implications for tertiary education, experiences in
Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) and prospects for AIT.

Mr. Kohli serves as the Vice-Chairman of the AIT Institute-level
Advisory Board and is President and CEO of the Centennial Group and a
board member of several private corporations in Asia and the USA. He
worked at the World Bank for twenty-five years where he was Director of
the Maghreb and Iran Department, Director of the Technical Department
for Europe and Central Asia, and Director of the Information,
Technology and Facilities Department.

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Professor Worsak appointed as AIT Vice President for Resource Development

Professor Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Dean of School of
Engineering and Technology (SET) was appointed as the new Vice
President for Resource Development at AIT, after the meeting of the
Board of Trustees on 7 April 2009. The Board also approved the
administration’s proposal, to integrate and merge the current two
part-time positions of Vice President for External Relations and Vice
President for Development and Resources, into one full-time Vice
President position, with a proposed title of Vice President for
Resource Development.

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Asia-Link project supports engineering education in Afghanistan

 
AIT recently hosted the second workshop of the Partnership
Management Committee of the EC funded Asia-Link project “Euro-Asia
Partnership for Development of Human Resource Capacity of Engineering
Education in Afghanistan”. The project links AIT with Slovak University
of Technology (STU, Slovakia), Vienna University of Technology (VUT,
Austria), Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU, Afghanistan) and Herat
University (HU, Afghanistan) to collaborate on ways to contribute to
the improvement of engineering education in Afghanistan by building
partnerships between European and Asian higher education institutions.

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