Dr Julie Jackson was a Pro Vice-Chancellor at La Trobe University, Australia for a period of 14years, retiring in early 2016.  She held a variety of portfolios primarily in the areas of quality enhancement, educational partnerships and community engagement.  She led the development of the University quality management framework and the preparations for the AUQA audits in 2004 and 2009 as well as guiding the document preparation for the 2016 TEQSA re-accreditation.  She was a member of the La Trobe University Academic Board for 14 years and was elected to the University Council in 2005. She chaired the University Coursework Committee and the Scholarships Committee.     Dr Jackson served as an Australian Universities Quality Agency honorary auditor from 2002 until 2010. She was also the Universities Australia nominee to the Joint Steering Group for the Australian Universities Quality Forum. With a long experience of accreditation and quality assurance in higher education, she was a Ministerial appointee  to the Victorian Higher Education Advisory Committee from 2000 until 2010.She serves on quality assurance and accreditation panels in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa, as well as Oman.  She is also a registered assessor for the new Australian national accreditation agency, the Tertiary Education and Quality Standards Agency. She has been a visiting academic at a number of Australian and international universities and was a finalist in the Australian Awards for University Teaching, Institutional category in 1998.  With five degrees including qualifications in economics, econometrics, quality management and education she has published widely in these areas and has been successful in obtaining Australian Research Council and Cooperative Research Centre grants.

Presently, Muhammad Ismail is working as Director Quality Assurance at National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS), Rawalpindi since May, 2019. He is dealing with the implementation of the policies/guidelines issued by Higher Education Commission(HEC) of Pakistan, the Pakistan Medical Commission and Pakistan Nursing Council at NUMS. Prior to this, he had been appointed as Head of the Quality Assurance Division of HEC Pakistan as Consultant/Expert Quality Assurance during October2015 to January, 2019. Quality Assurance Division of HEC works for developing and reviewing the quality assurance policies for the Pakistani higher education sector through the recommendations of National Quality Assurance Committee(NQAC) and issuing them after the approval of the Commission. Muhammad Ismail got his Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Pakistan Air Force(PAF) College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE) winning NED Gold Medal and Arif-Manzoor Shaheed Gold Medal. He received his Master’s degree in Physics, with roll of honor, from Government College Lahore, Pakistan and MS in Aerospace Engineering, with distinction, from University of Oklahoma, USA. He served in PAF during 1975 to 2005, against different instructional, administrative and staff assignments including faculty member at PAF College of Aeronautical Engineering, Principal of a PAF College, Director of Studies at PAF Academy, Director of Education and Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Education)at Air Headquarters. He was also deputed to King Faisal Air Academy, Riyadh Saudi Arabia during Aug, 1984 to Nov, 1987. Besides several other honors and awards, he is recipient of President’s Award of Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)(i.e. Star of Excellence-Military).During May 2005 to October 2015, Muhammad Ismail served National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) Islamabad, as Director Quality Assurance and International Collaborations. At NUST, he dealt with matters concerning implementation of policies and programs for quality assurance/enhancement as per the guidelines of HEC and the and international collaborations of NUST. He also facilitated the accreditation of NUST academic programs by PEC, NBEAC, PCATP, NCEAC and PM&DC. He has conducted several seminars and workshops on quality assurance, as resource person, at national level and has been declared as HEC’s Master Trainer. He is on the panel of accreditation experts of Pakistan Engineering Council and Member of National Panel of HEC Pakistan for Institutional Performance Evaluation (IPE) of Universities and Review of Graduate Programs (RGP). He has conducted several accreditations of engineering programs, university internal quality audits and IPEs as well as RGPs of many Pakistani universities. He has participated and contributed in numerous national and international conferences and has various publications to his credit including contributions in ACU, APQN and QS organized events. Based on his engagement in multifarious activities in the field of quality assurance Muhammad Ismail has been selected as Consultant for Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN). While being the Director Quality Assurance NUST, he was instrumental in winning the APQN’s Best/Model IQA Award– 2014 for NUST and also won the APQN Quality Champion Award – 2016 for himself while being at HEC Pakistan.