Co-Creating a Resilient Future

Professor Ellen Hazelkorn is internationally recognized as an expert across further and higher education policy and systems and institutional governance, leadership and management; human capital and skills development and analysis; national and institutional systems of evaluation and rankings, quality assurance and accreditation; and science and innovation policy. She is joint managing partner of BH Associates education consultants, and Professor Emerita, Technological University Dublin, Ireland. She is Joint Editor of Policy Reviews in Higher Education (2018). She advises the European Commission, OECD, UNESCO, World Bank, and governments and tertiary institutions. She previously served as Vice President, Dublin Institute of Technology (now TU Dublin) (1995-2015), as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts, and VP Research and Enterprise. Ellen is currently a member of the Co-ordinating Council for Higher Education in Portugal; the International Panel of Experts for the “Excellence Initiative – Research University”, Poland; and the Steering Group for the Framework for Success and Sustainability of Scotland’s Universities, and the Scottish College Sector of the Future. She is also a member of the EU/OECD HEInnovate Expert Group (2025-). Ellen was a member of the Quality Board for Higher Education in Iceland, and has chaired numerous quality assurance and research reviews. She authored background paper for the UNESCO Intergovernmental Conference for the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning HE (2025); UNESCO Lead, CFIT III (China Funds-in-Trust) Project: Developing Higher Technical Education in Six African Countries (2019-2026); restructured the accreditation system for St Kitts-Nevis on behalf of its government/UNESCO (2021-2025), and authored Five Year Higher Education Policy and Action Plan for Lebanon (2021-2023). She was a QA Expert for the World Bank, developing processes and training for quality, qualifications, and accreditation in the MENA region, and advisor to the Irish government on developing a unified tertiary system. Ellen was policy advisor to, and board member of, the Higher Education Authority (Ireland) (2011-2017), and consultant to the Programme for Institutional Management of Higher Education, OECD (2001-2010). Ellen was awarded a BA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Kent, UK, respectively. She has a Certificate from the Institute for Educational Management, Harvard University, USA.

Ellen was awarded a BA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Kent, UK, respectively. She has a Certificate from the Institute for Educational Management, Harvard University, USA. Ellen is internationally recognised for her writings and analysis of university rankings, including” Research Handbook on University Rankings: History, Methodology, Influence and Impact (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021); Research Handbook on Quality, Performance and Accountability in Higher Education (Edward Elgar 2018); Global Rankings and the Geopolitics of Higher Education (Routledge 2016); Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence, 2nd ed. (Palgrave, 2015; trans into Japanese 2018); Rankings and Accountability in Higher Education: Uses and Misuses (UNESCO, 2013). Other publications include The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); and co-authored, The Civic University: Meeting the Leadership and Management Challenges (Edward Elgar, 2016), and GUNi World Report 6: Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local (UNESCO, ACUP and UNU, 2017). Forthcoming: Governing and Leading Small- and Medium-Sized Tertiary Education Systems. Opportunities and Challenges at a Time of Global and Geopolitical Change (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2027).
Professor Ellen Hazelkorn
Joint Managing Partner, BH Associates, https://www.bhassociates.eu/
Joint Editor, Policy Reviews in Higher Education, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprh20/current; Professor Emerita, Technological University Dublin
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