Prospects and Challenges of Higher Education in the Arab World

Prof. Adnan Badran

President of Petra University, Jordan

Educational Record:

• Ph.D.               1963     Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
• M.Sc.               1960     Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
• B.Sc.                1959     Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla., USA
• Hon. Ph.D.       1981     Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• Hon .Science Doctorate 2007 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. USA.
• West Watkins distinguished Lectureship Award 2009, Oklahoma State University  USA.
• Honorary Professorship 2012, L.N.Gumilev Eurasian National University Astana-Kazakhstan.

Employment History

2009-2012      Chairman of the Administrative Board of Arab Thought Forum, Amman

2006-2010      Senator and chairman of the senate Committee on education science, culture and media.

1998-2005      President of Philadelphia University.

1994-1998      Deputy Director General (DDG), UNESCO, Paris..

1990-1994      Assistant Director General for Science (ADG/SC), UNESCO. Paris.

Minister of Education. Jordan

1986-1987      Secretary General of the Higher Council for Science and Technology, Jordan.

Research and Innovation Models in European Universities

   Prof. Luciano Saso

  Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

  He is a Member of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (http://en.uniroma1.it/). He obtained his Master’s Degree in Chemistry (summa cum laude, 1987) and his Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Sciences (1992) at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is author of more than 130 original scientific articles published in peer reviewed international journals with impact factor (available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luciano_Saso/?ev=hdr_xprfentering). He coordinated several international research projects in the field of pharmacology and has been referee for many national and international funding agencies and international scientific journals in the last 20 years.

During his career, he supervised several Doctoral Candidates from different countries including Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Iran, Estonia, India and Russia getting to know well a variety of doctoral education systems.

He has extensive teaching experience in Italy and abroad having delivered several lectures in the field of “drug development” and “antiinflammatory, antioxidant and immunosuppressive drugs” at several foreign universities including the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Paris-Descartes, the University of Lyon 1, the University of Madrid San Pablo Ceu, the University of Malta and the University of Delhi.

Besides his scientific activities, he has been working for many years in the field of international relations as Rector’s Delegate for International Mobility and Erasmus Institutional Coordinator of Sapienza University of Rome and Member of the Steering Committee of the networks of Universities UNICA (www.unica-network.eu/) and SG (http://www.sgroup.be).