Andrew Lister (Panel Chairperson), Consultant
Emeritus Professor Andrew Lister was Executive Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Architecture at the University of Queensland from 1998 to 2002. Between 1994 and 1997 he served as Deputy President and then President of the Academic Board. Andrew was educated at Cambridge and held academic positions in the UK before coming to Australia in 1976. He headed the University of Queensland's Department of Computer Science from 1982 to 1994. From 1989 to 1991 Andrew chaired the AVCC Academic Standards Panel on Computer Science. He is the author or co-author of 3 books and over 50 scientific papers. Andrew has been actively involved in Government and education consultancy activities with appointments to several national and State boards and committees. Since leaving the University of Queensland he has provided consulting services to about 20 universities and other bodies in Australia and overseas. He has been an AUQA auditor since 2001.

David Woodhouse Executive Director, AUQA
Dr David Woodhouse is Executive Director of the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), which is responsible for auditing the academic quality assurance procedures of Australia's universities, state and territory accreditation agencies and various other higher education institutions. AUQA also has a responsibility for quality improvement, which it carries out through publications, workshops, and consulting. David undertakes many national and international quality assurance activities, providing advice and training on educational quality assurance to governments, agencies and institutions in a number of countries. He has served two terms as President of the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), from 1997 to 2001, and in 2007 was elected President of INQAAHE for a third term. Before working in Australia, David was founding Director of the New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit (1994-2001), and Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (1990-1994). Before that, he was a faculty member in mathematics, computer science and education in universities in several countries, and was at various times head of a department and dean of a faculty. He has been very active in extension work in schools and teacher education. His leisure interests include multisport and other endurance events.

Mairéad Browne Consultant
After an early career in Ireland, Emeritus Professor Mairéad Browne held positions at University of Sydney, Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education and University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). She was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS from 1991-1996 and Dean of the University Graduate School from 1997 until commencing as a freelance consultant in 2001. Current appointments include Senior Consultant for the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. She is also a member of the Australian Research Council Appeals Committee 2005-2007 and has served as a trained Auditor for AUQA since 2001. Earlier appointments at the national level included two terms on the Council of the National Library of Australia 1992-98, President of the Australian Library and Information Association 2000-2001 and Convenor for 2000 of the Deans and Directors of Graduate Schools (DDoGS). She was a member of the Knowledge Nation Task Force chaired by Barry O Jones for the Australian Labor Party 2000-2001. Mairéad has served on a number of trial audit and AUQA audit panels for Australian universities and private providers. Her involvement in quality assurance internationally includes work at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa where she advised in the area of postgraduate research education. She was a member of the Pilot Review Panel appointed by the Saudi Arabian National Council for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) to trial the Saudi quality framework in 2006. Mairéad was also engaged as a member of the Expert Panel for the AUQA-led Bahraini Universities Quality Project in 2007. She was appointed to the Register of External Reviewers of the Oman Accreditation Council for the period 2007-2010. Awards include Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association and Emeritus Professor of University of Technology, Sydney.

Gareth Jones Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & International), University of Otago
Gareth Jones gained degrees from the Universities of London, Western Australia, and Otago, and is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International) at the University of Otago. He is also Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology, a position he has held since 1983. His principal areas of specialisation are in neurobiology and bioethics, in which he has published over 20 books and monographs, and 200 refereed papers. He has held visiting academic positions in universities in Australia the UK and the USA, has given scientific seminars in many countries, and is a frequent reviewer for journals and grant-awarding bodies. Before coming to the University of Otago, Gareth worked for several years at the University of Western Australia. Within the University of Otago, Gareth has served on a range of senior committees; he was Founding Director of the Bioethics Research Centre, was Director of the Neuroscience Research Centre, and established medical ethics teaching in the Faculty of Medicine. Outside the University, he has served on Ethics and Neurological bodies. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART) in New Zealand. Gareth has a considerable interest in the way universities and departments operate, and has written and spoken on relevant topics. He is co-author of ‘Universities as Critic and Conscience of Society: the role of academic freedom’, a title in the New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit ‘Series on Quality’. He has also been instrumental in introducing a range of teaching innovations, and regularly lectures to extra-mural groups, relating his areas of academic expertise to more general debates of public concern. He has been a member of four NZUAAU and four AUQA panels. He has been involved in numerous departmental reviews in Australia and New Zealand.

Leo West Consultant
Dr Leo West retired from the positions of Pro-Vice Chancellor (International Programs and Development) at Monash University and Managing Director of Monash International Pty Ltd at the end of 1996, which he had held since 1991/92. In the previous decade he had been Counsellor to the Higher Education Council; Advisor to the Vice Chancellor, Monash University; Executive Secretary of the Discipline Review of Teacher Education in Maths and Science; and Associate Professor/ Senior Lecturer in the Higher Education Advisory and Research Unit at Monash. During this period, he was a member of the AVCC/ACDP Working Party on Performance Indicators in Higher Education and the follow-up DEET research group which produced the Linke Report. In 2001 Leo served a six-month term as Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor and Operations Manager at Central Queensland University. Leo was a member of the OECD/IMHE working party, which developed and trialled a Quality Assurance system for the internationalisation objectives of higher education institutions; and Board Member of the Global Alliance for Transnational Education, playing a significant role in the development of its standards for transnational education. Since retirement, Leo has carried out a range of consultancies, including internally initiated quality audits of internationalisation and off-shore programs at the University of South Australia; team leader of an OECD/IMHE quality audit at Bently College in the USA; member of a GATE certification team at Tomsk Polytechnic University; and consultant to the Thai Ministry of University Affairs involved in developing a system for resource allocation of Thai government funds to Thai public universities.