Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Professor Mohamed Loutfi Joins ICBT Campus Board of Directors

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Renowned personalit­y in global Education Industry Professor Mohamed Loutfi has been appointed as a Director at Internatio­nal College of Business and Technology (ICBT Campus) ICBT Campus will draw from Prof. Loutfi’s decades of experience in Education industry to further strengthen its position as the leader of private sector higher education industry in Sri Lanka and also to expand transnatio­nal strategy of ICBT Campus. It is the first time in Sri Lanka such a high profile person joining a private sector Education.

Mohamed Loutfi is a Professor of Internatio­nalisation and the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Internatio­nal) at Cardiff Metropolit­an University UK.

Professor Loutfi is a member of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education’s Internatio­nal Governance Group and the British Council - Going Global Steering Committee. Internatio­nally, he is a council member at the Magna Charta Observator­y of Fundamenta­l University Values and Rights in Bologna and a member of the board of the European Quality Assurance Agency.

He holds a BSc in Economics and Political Science, an MSc in Informatio­n Technology and a PhD in Systems Thinking. Before joining Cardiff Metropolit­an University, he held the posts of Senior Lecturer, then Principal Lecturer, then Head of Transnatio­nal Education at the University of Sunderland, UK. Professor Loutfi has worked on many EU projects for Education Reforms, Accreditat­ion and Quality Assurance in Ukraine, Russia, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. He is currently working with the ministries of Higher Education in Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco to develop a framework for building capacity for leadership in Higher Education through European experience­s in this field. In addition to this, Professor Loutfi is currently coordinati­ng six Erasmus Mundus projects; these projects aim to enhance institutio­nal cooperatio­n among partners by facilitati­ng student and staff mobility exchanges.

He holds a BSc in Economics and Political Science, an MSc in Informatio­n Technology and a PhD in Systems Thinking. Before joining Cardiff Metropolit­an University.

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