IAFOR Global Programme Committee

Dr Joseph Haldane

The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan

His Excellency Professor Toshiya Hoshino

Osaka University, Japan

Professor Barbara Lockee

Virginia Tech., United States

Professor Donald E. Hall

Binghamton University, United States

Dr James W. McNally

University of MichiganUnited States & NACDA Program on Aging

Professor Haruko Satoh

Osaka University, Japan

Dr Grant Black

Chuo University, Japan

Professor Dexter Da Silva

Keisen University, Japan

Professor Gary Swanson

University of Northern Colorado, United States

Professor Baden Offord

Curtin University, Australia

Professor Frank Ravitch

Michigan State University, United States

Professor William Baber

Kyoto University, Japan

Dear Delegates,

I am very excited to be returning to Washington D.C., and to the wonderful Virginia Tech Arlington Campus, just across the Potomac River. As the capital of the world’s most powerful country, this city is an intellectual and intelligence powerhouse and power center, and a great backdrop to be able to consider questions of education and research theory, practice and policy, and how this can have both local and global impact.

This conference is on Educational Research and Innovation, and as an organization working across, in, and through these areas of practice and theory, I am always particularly interested in how the conversations and ideas that we discuss over the next few days will help shape the future policies and operations of The International Academic Forum.

IAFOR is an exceptional platform for the discussion and sharing of your ideas and research across borders of nation, culture and discipline, and although this is one of our smallest conferences, of the 150 registrants onsite and online, more than 30 countries are represented. There is therefore a great opportunity to engage in comparative and contrastive discussions and to seek research synergies with those working in many different places across the world.

I encourage your full participation in the event, both onsite and online, and for you to take advantage of our membership programme which allows you to attend online presentations at IAFOR events throughout the year, and held globally.

Dr Joseph Haldane Chairman & C.E.O, The International Academic Forum

(IAFOR)

Guest Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University, Japan

Visiting Professor, Doshisha University, Japan & The University of Belgrade, Serbia

Honorary Professor, University College London (UCL), UK Member, Expert Network, World Economic Forum