Keynotes
Prof. Hugh Lauder
Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy at the University of Bath (1996-to present). He has studied at The University of London, (The Institute of Education), and gained his Doctorate at the University of Canterbury (NZ). He was formerly Dean of Education at Victoria University of Wellington. He specialises in the relationship of education to the economy. and has for over 10 years worked on national skill strategies and more recently on the global skill strategies of multinational companies.
His books include: Lauder, H, et al (eds,) Educating for the Knowledge Economy? Critical Perspectives (2012), London, Routledge; Brown, P, Lauder, H, Ashton, D (2011) The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Opportunities, Jobs and Rewards, Oxford University Press, New York; To be published in Chinese by the Human Science and Technology Press; Lauder, H, Brown, P, Dillabough J-A and Halsey, A.H. (eds.) (2006) Education, Globalization and Social Change, Oxford, Oxford University Press; Brown, P, Green, A and Lauder, H., (2001) High Skills: Globalisation, Competitiveness and Skill Formation, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Brown, P and Lauder, H (2001) Capitalism and Social Progress: The Future of Society in a Global Economy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Press. Reprinted in Chinese, 2007. He has published many academic papers including on international education and globalization, and is editor of the Journal of Education and Work. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, the University of Turku (Finland) and Witwatersrand, (SA).
http://www.bath.ac.uk/education/people/profiles/hlauder.html
Dr. Srbijanka Turajlić
Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Serbia). Graduated from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade and obtained MSc. and PhD. degrees from the same school.
As a professor of control engineering she spent most of her professional life lecturing at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, with occasional visiting professorships in the region and the US. Her key research areas are computer process control, signal processing, adaptive systems, and fuzzy control. In addition to teaching and research activities, Dr. Turajlic served as the vice-dean for education at the School of Electrical Engineering, chair of the Belgrade University Committee on Education, and the head of the Computer Center at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. From 2006 she is engaged as consultant for TERI Engineering, an ICT Company in Belgrade.
In the mid-Nineties she focused her interest on the area of higher education, accepting a position as Chair of the board of an NGO the Alternative Academic Educational Network (AAEN), of which she is a founding member.
From March 2001 till March 2004 she served as the Deputy Minister for Education of the Republic of Serbia. She was in charge of the higher education system in Serbia and was steering the HE reform process.
In March 2003, Dr. Turajlic was appointed the holder of the UNESCO-Chair for University Management at the AAEN, which was followed by the Chair for the Development of Education at the Center for Education Policy.
Dr. Yehuda Elkana
Yehuda Elkana was born in Yugoslavia in 1934 and after the war and a year of concentration camp he immigrated to Israel, in 1948. He studied physics, mathematics and history of science, also taking courses in biology, and received the M.Sc. degree. In 1968, he completed his doctoral studies with a thesis "On the Emergence of the Energy Concept", published later at Harvard University Press. For one year, he taught at Harvard University. From 1968 he taught in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the Hebrew University and served as its Chairman. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1973-74), a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (1977-78); from 1981 until 1991 he was Director of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. From 1968-1993 he was Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. In 1988-89 he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and since 1987 a Permanent Fellow there.
Yehuda Elkana is a Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Collegium Budapest and its Deputy Chairman; He is a corresponding member of the International Academy for the History of Science. He was the founding editor of Science in Context and author of several books and numerous articles. From 1995-1999 he shared with Helga Nowotny the Professur für Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Wissenschaftsforschung at the ETH Zurich. From 1999 to 2009 he was the President and Rector of the Central European University in Budapest. In 2009-2010 Yehuda Elkana is a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Yehuda Elkana is married to Dr. Yehudit Elkana and has four children.
