Internationalising Higher Education

Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic is Chief of the Section for Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance in UNESCO's Higher Education Division in Paris. She also worked as Programme Specialist in UNESCO’s Centre for Higher Education – CEPES in Bucharest (1990-1999). Prior to work in UNESCO, she was Secretary-General of the Association of Universities of Former Yugoslavia.

Her UNESCO experience includes responsibility for the elaboration of the 1997 Lisbon Recognition Convention; setting up the 1994 Council of Europe/UNESCO ENIC Network; the launch of the 2002 Global Forum on International Quality Assurance, Accreditation and the Recognition of Qualifications; and the 2005 Guidelines on Quality Provision in Cross Border Higher Education. She has also undertaken Higher Education Reviews of Macedonia (1994), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996, 1997) and Yugoslavia (2001).