Al Buraimi University College, General Foundation Program Quality Audit, Jan 1900
 
Prof. Mark Hay
 
Dr Mark Hay, drawing on his background in theology and philosophy, has an interest in incorporating insights and lessons on good practice in higher education from his wide-ranging higher education experience in South Africa and internationally. He is attentive to supporting the provision quality higher education through the firm development of graduate attributes, in the context that each university operates effectively and efficiently in ensuring academic standards and assurance of quality within a transformative, socially responsive and social justice context. He has held the post of Executive Director for Quality Assurance at the South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) and before that was an audit director at the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). From 2004-2007, he was Institutional Audits Director of the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) at the CHE, responsible for the national quality audits of universities and selected large private providers of higher education. He is also a specialist expert in higher education institutional quality audits, chairing international quality audit panels. He has provided strategic support to the Vice-Chancellor of Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. He was previously a ministerial appointee on the Council of Tshwane University of Technology and currently serves as a ministerial appointee and Vice-Chair of Council on the Council of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Mark presently serves as strategic academic advisor to a local investment company and a research university with post-school education interests. 
 
Dr Nagham Al Azzawi
 
Dr Nagham Al Azzawi is an Assistant Professor at Rustaq College of Education, Oman. She is currently Head of the Students and Students` Support Services Quality Assurance Sub-committee at Rustaq College of Education where she supervises and contributes to the action plan to support the College`s largest category of stakeholders. Dr. Al Azzawi obtained her PhD degree from the University of Al Mustansirriya, Iraq, in 2004 followed by an IDELTM, Cambridge, 2013. She has presented in various national and regional conferences in Iraq, Oman, Lebanon, UAE and Turkey. She has published translations,  two contributions to curricula books, a number of papers and is now working on further projects.
 
Prof Pedro Saravia
 
Dr Pedro has a Diploma from the University of Coimbra, Portugal (1987) and PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT, USA (1993).  He has been Assistant (1993-2001), Associate (2001-2010) and Full (2010-) Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Coimbra; a Member of the Portuguese National Parliament (2009-2012 and 2012-2015); Pro-Rector of the University of Coimbra (2003-2004 and 2005-2006); Vice-Rector of the University of Coimbra (2007-2009) in charge of Quality, Innovation, Entrepreneurhsip and Technology Transfer; Currently he is the Dean of NOVA Information Management School of the NOVA University of Lisbon (2018); Advisor of the President of Portugal for Higher Education (2006-2009).He was the first recipient of the Feigenbaum Award (1998) by American Society for Quality and was an Associate (2010-2015) and then Full Member (2015-) of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ) where he is also the Chair of the Think Tank for Quality in Education (2016-). Vice-President of the Portuguese Association for Quality (APQ), the European Organization for Quality (EOQ) and IAQ. Dr Pedro conducts research activities in the fields of Process Systems Engineering, Data Analysis, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Quality Management, with several books and papers published.  He has also been collaborating with OECD and the European Commission in the development and application of a self-assessment platform for evaluating the innovation and entrepreneurial environments and initiatives carried out by Higher Education Institutions (HEInnovate), as well as with OECD in the country reviews it is conducting on how entrepreneurial are higher education systems and their institutions.  He has participated in several projects regarding Quality Management, Excellence Models, Quality in Education and Quality in Higher Education, both in Portugal and abroad (e.g. Poland, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia).