Salalah College of Applied Sciences , Institutional Quality Audit, Dec 2010
 
Prof. Clive Neal-Sturgess
 
Clive Neal-Sturgess was educated at King Edward VI School Nuneaton, was a Student Apprentice, graduated with a 1st Class Honours’ Degree from Lanchester College Coventry, and took his PhD in the Forming of Tool Steels at the University of Birmingham.  He held the Jaguar Chair of Automotive Engineering 1988-2004, and was formerly Head of Mechanical Engineering at Birmingham.  He has served in numerous bodies within the University of Birmingham, spent 17 years as a member of Senate, and has been a member of Court since 1988.  In 2006 he was honoured by being elected a University Foundation Fellow.He spent the majority of his academic career researching Continuum Damage Mechanics, Finite Element Methods, and the injuries to car occupants and pedestrians in crashes.  He is co-author of three books and over 150 research publications, and a member of the Editorial Boards of three Journals. He is a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, and the European Transport Safety Council. He has been an external examiner at various universities for 20 years including the Universities of Mauritius, Malaysia, and the Caledonian College of Engineering Oman. He has been a quality assurance assessor since 1996, and in 2008 was appointed as a subject reviewer for the UN Development Project at Arab Universities, reviewing Damascus and Helwan Universities in 2008.  He has served as an accreditor for both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Engineering Accreditation Board in the UK since 1992.  He was Chairman of the Panel which reviewed the Engineering Councils (UK) examinations in 2007.  He has been a reviewer for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Australian and Canadian National Research Councils, and is an assessor for the National Teaching Fellowships Scheme of the Higher Education Academy.  He has been a member of the Engineering Professors’ Council for 12 years, and is currently Chairman of the International Working Group. 
 
Prof. Gerhard Apfelthaler
 
Gerhard Apfelthaler is Dean and Professor at the School of Management at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. He received his Ph. D. in Social and Economic Sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU) in Vienna, Austria after studies in Austria, Taiwan, and the United States. He authored several books in English and German, and he published articles in leading academic journals including Industrial Marketing Management, the Service Industries Journal, the Journal of World Business, the European Journal of International Management, the Journal of Small Business Management, the International Journal of Management Education, the Journal of International Learning, and several others. He is also a co-founder and editor of the European Journal of International Management. He has lectured at universities in a number of countries including Austria, Australia, Austria, Colombia, Iceland, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States, and is the co-founder of several companies including Oak Therapeutics, Inc., (USA), CURE Pharmaceutical (USA), AT Consult (USA and Austria), and the non-profit organization Start-Up Kids. Before moving to California, he has been the Chair of the Department of International Management at FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz (Austria). Previously, he served as Commercial Attaché to the Austrian Embassy in Singapore, as Austria’s Deputy Trade Commissioner to the United States (Los Angeles office), as Dean of International Business Studies at FHS Kufstein Tirol, and as coordinator of the international postgraduate program of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS), among others. 
 
Dr. Imran Hameed
 
Dr Imran Hameed holds a PhD in Human Resource Development from National University of Modern Languages, and a Masters in Public Health Management from Mahidol University. He is a medical doctor with specialization in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He has worked in various capacities as a clinician, administrator and educationist in different countries. He shifted from clinical practice to public health management and finally to teaching over the years. He worked as the Head of Department of Business Studies at the Higher College of Technology, in Muscat from 2016 to 2019, and as the Head of Department at Nizwa College of Technology from 2008 to 2016, where he was also leading the Quality Assurance, Health and Safety Units and co-chair of Research. In the past he has served as the Director of Training at the JICA Mother and Child Health Centre; as the Principal of College of Medical Technology; and Director of Children Hospital at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad. He has been a consultant for academics to WHO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, JICA, and DFID. His academic publications include midwifery manual for traditional birth attendants, and training material for prevention of parent to child transmission of HIV/AIDS. He has published papers on human resource development and public health in various scientific journals. He is a reviewer and on editorial board of two journals on management sciences.
 
Prof. Martin Oosthuizen
 
Martin Oosthuizen holds a doctoral degree in Theology from the University of South Africa. He is currently Chief Executive Officer at Cape Higher Education Consortium Western Cape, South Africa.  Until June 2011 he was the Senior Director of the Centre for Planning and Institutional Development at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), where his responsibilities focused on quality management and strategic and academic planning. He has been actively involved in the work of the South African Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC), and in particular in the development of the institutional audit system. He is also a trained institutional auditor under the HEQC’s institutional audit system, and serves as an international reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency in Scotland, the Higher Education Review Unit in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Oman Academic Accreditation Authority. He has presented various papers on quality assurance at both national and international conferences, and is a regular contributor to the Quality Assurance Forum of Higher Education South Africa (HESA). One of the key projects in which he is currently involved is a collaborative project between the NMMU and the University of Johannesburg to develop a consolidated qualifications structure for the two comprehensive universities. An important aspect of the project concerns the challenge of diversity and differentiation in the South African higher education sector.