Dolina Dowling’s career has spanned four decades in the field of education, from primary school to university level. She has held executive positions in higher education institutions. Dr Dolina has considerable knowledge of higher education in the Middle East primarily from having been the Executive Director of the Directorate of Higher Education Reviews of the Qualification and Education and Training Authority (BQA) in the Kingdom of Bahrain from 2008-2014. She is a Quality Award Advisor and assessor for the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. Dr Dolina provides education and management consultancy to both public and private higher education and tertiary institutions as well as quality assurance agencies. She has successfully completed projects in strategic planning, quality assurance and accreditation, change management as well as research planning and capacity building both at the institutional and individual levels. She has extensive editorial experience of books and academic journals. She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Independent Journal of Teaching and Learning of which she was the founding editor in 2006. The journal is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education in South Africa. She has published widely and has delivered numerous papers at conferences. She holds two diplomas in Education, a Bachelor’s degree, a Master’s degree in Philosophy as well as a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in Scotland.