Stuart Macintyre (Panel Chairperson), Ernest Scott Professor of History, University of Melbourne
Stuart Macintyre was educated in Melbourne and undertook doctoral studies in history at Cambridge. He has held appointments at Cambridge, Murdoch, the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne. Since 1990 he has been the Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne and from 1999 to 2006 was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He has written ten books and edited another fourteen concerned principally with aspects of Australian history. His two most recent books were The Reds(1998) and a Concise History of Australia (1999). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2001 he served as an external member of the History Panel for the Research Assessment Exercise in the United Kingdom. He chairs the Australian Research Council’s Expert Advisory Committee for the Humanities and Creative Arts. He is also a member of the Victorian Qualifications Authority. Stuart has a particular interest in libraries and served terms on the councils of the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Victoria. In 1994 he chaired a national inquiry into civics education, and this fostered an increasing concern for the values of a liberal education in an era when schools and universities are commonly seen as concerned with training and the production of commercial knowledge.

Robyn Adams Audit Director, AUQA
Robyn has been an Audit Director at AUQA since February, and is on secondment from RMIT University, where she holds the position of Principal Consultant, Quality. Robyn has senior management experience across a range of areas, including human resource management, industrial relations, strategic planning and quality management and has worked in the tertiary education sector for over 15 years. She has particular expertise in the design, development and implementation of organisational-wide systems and processes to achieve business objectives and facilitate quality enhancement and has been a member of the Joint Steering Committee for AUQF.

Elizabeth More Professor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
Professor More AM is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) at Macquarie University, Sydney, following a two year period as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra. Prior to these positions, she was Director of the Graduate School of Management, Chair of Academic Senate at Macquarie University, and Managing Director of MGSM Pty Ltd. Professor More holds a first class honors degree in Humanities and a Ph.D from the University of N.S.W.; a Graduate Diploma in Management from the University of Central Queensland; and is currently completing studies in commercial law. In the Queen’s Birthday 2005 Honours List, Professor More received the award of Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to education, particularly in the fields of communication, management and organizational change. Professor More has given conference presentations and published widely, both locally and internationally, in the field of organisation studies, particularly in the areas of organisational change, communication, culture, communications technology and policy. Her current research focus is on inter-organisational collaboration, strategic alliances, networks, and e-commerce communities. Professor More is on the editorial boards of the Australian Journal of Communication; the Journal of Communication Management; The Journal of International Communication; Knowledge and Process Management – The Journal of Corporation Transformation. She has also been awarded research grants from the Australian Research Council, Macquarie University, the N.S.W. Education and Training Foundation, and the Commonwealth Department of Health. Professor More is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, and of the Australian Communication Association. She also has extensive experience in consulting to both private and public sector organizations and, over the past decade, has been called upon regularly for expert media comment on issues related to management practice and education. Before becoming a University academic, she worked as a classical ballet dancer in theatre and television, and in the advertising industry. Her community service includes her current work as a Member of the NSW Government’s Council on the Cost and Quality of Government; a Member of the Board for the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications (ac3); a Member of the Academic Advisory Board for the Australian Institute of Management; and a past Member of the International Institute of Communications Australian Chapter Committee. She was also appointed by the Commonwealth Government from 1992-1996 as a Member of the Government's Telecommunications Industry Development Authority (TIDA) and was appointed to the Tax Concession Committee of the IR&D Board from 1996-98.

David Myers CEO, Audinate Pty Ltd
David Myers has spent his working life in research and development, mainly in industry but usually close to the interface between industry and academia, and sometimes straying over the boundary. He is currently CEO of Audinate Pty Ltd, formerly, an Industry Development Manager at National ICT Australia (NICTA). Prior to that, he was as co-founder and Vice President of Engineering of Dilithium Networks, a High Tech Start-up company that span out of Sydney University. Previously he was in a senior management position in BTexact, the R&D arm of British Telecommunications plc. He lectured in Electrical Engineering at Sydney University in the 1980s. David has experience of a number of very different audit processes. He participated in the preparation of BTexact and Dilithium for ISO9001 accreditation, and has worked for the European Commission to ensure that EU-funded collaborative multi-national technology projects met objectives and were managed effectively. As an assessor for QAA (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (UK)) he participated in visits to several English Universities. He has performed assessments in South-East Asia of courses franchised by UK Universities for delivery by local HE institutions and he has assisted the Finnish Ministry of Education in the assessment of tertiary IT education in Finland.

Jairam Reddy Director, UNU-ILI, UNU-ILI
Dr Reddy is a citizen of South Africa and holds the degrees of Master of Science of the University of Manitoba, Canada, Doctor of Philosophy of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has held academic positions at the Universities of London, England, Temple and Washington, USA, Western Cape and Durban-Westville, South Africa. He was Vice -Chancellor of the University of Durban Westville from 1990-94. Dr Reddy has lectured widely and is the author of numerous refereed articles published in local and international journals and has presented over fifty papers in various congresses. In January 1995 he was appointed to chair the National Commission on Higher Education of South Africa on whose report much of the White Paper on Higher Education and the Higher Education Act are based. The University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Birmingham University and the Open University in England have recently conferred Honorary Doctorates on him. He was appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations to serve on the Council of the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan for the period 1998-2004. He was elected to chair the Council for a two year term from 2000-2002 Dr Reddy was awarded a Senior Fulbright Scholarship to undertake studies in Higher Education at Michigan State University in 1999. As a researcher and consultant in higher education, Dr Reddy has undertaken the following in recent years: advisor to UNESCO on establishing a University in Zanzibar, evaluation of the SIDA/Nuffic programme on higher education management in African Universities, evaluation of the NUFU (Norwegian) funded higher education programme, Visitors Advisory Programme, Salzburg Seminar to Russian Universities, Chair of Panel to evaluate the Quality Promotion Unit and SERTEC, South Africa, chair of Panel to advise the Ministries of Health and Education on the incorporation of the Colleges of Nursing into the higher education sector; evaluation of the Partnership Funding for African Universities (Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie and McArthur Foundations - 2004) He was chair of the Interim Council of the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa (2004), was a member of the Council of the Durban Institute of Technology, south Africa (2004) and of the Board of the Higher Education Quality Committee in South Africa (2002-05) Dr Reddy is currently Director of the United Nations University International Leadership Institute, Amman, Jordan