Transcript Participants - Calitate si Leadership

Bucharest Dialogues 2nd Workshop
SCENARIO BUILDING:
METHODS, APPROACHES AND
APPLICATIONS IN HIGHER
EDUCATION
Prof. Adrian Curaj
Adrian Curaj is a Professor at the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, and
Director of the Centre for Strategic Management and Quality Assurance in Higher
Education at the POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest. He graduated in
Electronics and Telecommunications, and got his Ph.D. in Automatic Control. He
has been working for more than 20 years in robots control.
He graduated the EMBA international program of the ASEBUSS and University of
Washington in Seattle-Business School.
Adrian Curaj is the Director of the Executive Agency for Higher Education and Research Funding in
Romania since 2000, and a Vice-President of the National University Research Council since 2008. He
served as the Romanian Prime Minister advisor on Science and Technology, IT&C, and e-Governance,
2007-2008. Adrian Curaj was acting as coordinator of the first National Foresight in S&T, in Romania,
(2005-2006), and coordinates the “Quality and Leadership for Higher Education” project, the national
Foresight in Higher Education, 2009-2011.
Adrian Curaj has been working as consultant with World Bank, UNESCO, UNIDO and EC for studies in
Tertiary Education, Science and Innovation, and Foresight. He is a member of the External Advisory
Board-PEOPLE, DG-Research, FP7 programme, since 2007.
Adrian Curaj published in reputed journals as well as many books most of them in research management.
One of his inventions received a gold medal at the Geneva Invention Salon 2009.
Adrian Curaj is the recipient of a number of awards and received two Romanian National Distinctions, For
Merits-Cavalier in 1999, and For Merits-Officer in 2008 for his outstanding contributions to Science and
Innovation.
Mr. Adrian Odagiu
Adrian Odagiu has a BA in computer science at the Politehnica
University of Bucharest. He is currently employed as IT expert in the
“Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education” project.
Ms. Alina Irimia
Alina Irimia is an assistant for the Work Package WP1 “Vision and Strategy”,
within the project “Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education”.
She holds a BA in Public Administration and is currently following a Master
Program in Management of International Projects at the Academy of Economic
Studies and another Master in Human Resource Management at the University
of Bucharest.
Before joining QLHE she undertook different internships related to project
management and public administration at the the Romanian Ministry of
Transports, Euro<26, ANSIT, The Ministry of Labor, Pro Democracy Association.
Mr. Campbell Warden
Campbell Warden is an accountant, translator and international research
administrator. He did a Master in Conference Interpretation (La Laguna
University - 1992) and an MBA (UK’s Open University Business School, 19992002). He served as the President of the European Association of Research
Managers and Administrators (2000-2002). He worked as a Detached
National Expert (on behalf of Spain) in the European Commission (at DG
RTD) between 1998 and 2001. He currently serves as an advisor on
Research Infrastructure policy for the Government of one of the new EU Member States and as an
external expert, evaluator and trainer to UNESCO, UNIDO, DG-RTD & DG-ENTR. He has organised
and participated in management training courses for over 15 years, especially in the fields of
International Scientific Collaboration, Gender Equality, Intellectual Capital and Technology Foresight.
He was a member of the High Level Expert Groups that produced the reports on “Women in Industrial
Research” and “Reporting Intellectual Capital to Augment Research, Development and Innovation in
SMEs” for the European Commission. He has been employed by the Instituto de Astrofisica de
Canarias (Tenerife, Spain) since 1983 and is currently the Executive Secretary.
Mr. Warden started the initiative HEROs (Managing and Reporting Intangibles by Higher Education
and Research Organisations) in 2001 which has received widespread interest and support. Since
2007 he has been promoting the use of Foresight methods to develop the societal value of HEROs.
Prof. Cezar Scarlat
Cezar Scarlat is the coordinator of the Work Package WP4, Leadership Training. He
has a BA in Electronics at Politehnica University of Bucharest, a BA in International
Business and Economics at Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and a PhD in
Management and postgraduate studies in Romania and abroad (USA, France,
Greece, United Kingdom). He teaches management courses at Politehnica University
of Bucharest and is also Visiting Professor at universities from Belgium and Finland.
Cezar Scarlat is author or co-author of thirty manuals and more than hundred articles,
published in Romania and abroad. He also has over 15 years of experience as expert
and manager in research, training and consulting projects, nationally and
internationally.
Mr. Costel Stavarache
Costel Stavarache is coordinating manager at the Foundation Studies Institute of the
People (ISP) from October 2008. His main responsibilities are coordinating programs,
projects financing, training, events organizer, research, and publishing. He is also a
researcher at the Center for Institutional Analysis and Development (CADI) from
August 2007. His main responsibilities are public policies analyzes, translations,
organizing events, research, publishing.
As expert in the UEFISCSU project he has analyzed theories of economic growth
(Solow, Romer) and economic theories of education. Strictly related to foresight he
was interested in studies and analysis that are prospects of long-term effects of
educational reform (20 years, 30 years).
From the workshop "Systems Thinking for Foresight: The Case of Romanian Higher
Education System" he expects a better familiarity with the foresight techniques, with
theoretical arguments and empirical arguments of the wider paradigm of future studies
and epistemic limitations of this domain. Also he is interested in a better understanding
of the relevance of educational reforms for a country's economic growth and greater
familiarity with positioning Romania in comparison with OECD countries, the
developing and transitional countries in educational reform.
Mr. Dan Grosu
Dan Grosu is employed as an expert in the project “Quality and
Leadership for Romanian Higher Education” run by the Executive
Agency for Higher Education and Research Funding. Dan has
graduated from the Mathematics Department of the University of Bucharest, and he is
currently pursuing doctoral studies in Political Sciences at the National School for
Political and Administration Studies. His professional experience includes working as an
Information Systems Analyst, and as an Expert in the Romanian National Technology
Foresight Exercise. He is also a former fellow of the Paideia Institute from Stockholm.
Mr. Dragoş Apostu
Dragoş Apostu is a MA student in Administration of the funds of cultural institutions
and a MA student in Training of trainers, both at the University of Bucharest. He has a
BA in Public Administration at the University of Bucharest. He is currently employed
as project assistant in the “Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education”
and executive secretary at TEMPUS Association for Continuing Education. He has
taken an internship within the Department for Public Diplomacy at Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and an internship at Romanian Embassy in the Republic of Poland. He is
interested in negotiations, trainings and structural funds.
Mr. Florin G. Dragomir
Florin G. Dragomir is a strategic consultant with extensive
experience in multinational and multicultural environments. After
working almost 10 years in some of the leading global players in
FMCG, he decided to embrace the challenge to start his own
consulting business focused on strategic projects. His current portfolio spreads from
public sector, where he manages a project team within a national foresight program for
higher education, to the private sector, where he constantly adds value to his local or
multinational customers. His mantra is “vision, strategy, value” and, capitalizing on his
ability to manage different sizes of businesses – from small size up to tens of millions,
large teams and multi-million budgets, he is constantly energized by new challenges and
ready to create value through innovative concepts and tools.
Prof. George Cairns
George Cairns is Professor of Management in the School of
Management at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is
currently Deputy Head, Research and Innovation and takes over as
Head of School in January 2010. George’s research interests lie in
the field of international business (IB), in particular, addressing the broad socioeconomic and environmental impacts of IB now and in future. During the last decade, he
has worked extensively with scenario method as an approach that enables organisations
and groups to explore complex and uncertain issues that they face in the future. He has
contributed to development of scenario method through a range of co-authored
publications and has taught the approach in the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has
conducted organisational scenario projects on a broad range of issues, including
European air traffic control, the future of the farm and of water supplies in Australia, egovernment futures in Scotland, and Australian tertiary education under a contestable
funding model. Having trained and worked as an architect in the UK, George has
presented at academic and professional conferences across the world, has published a
wide range of journal articles, and is co-author of several books.
Ms. Gill Ringland
Gill Ringland is well known as an author, consultant and trainer on
scenario planning and strategy. Since 2002 she has been CEO and
Fellow of SAMI Consulting which specialises in decision making and
implementation, based on views of the future, “robust decisions in
uncertain times”.
Recent projects include “Assessment of the ICT Infrastructure of the
City of London”, working with Sirim on a new medical devices industry for Malaysia,
scenarios to 2060 with Natural England, with Cambridge University Hospitals on
business strategy, with the Estonian Government on new ICT related industries, and in
the UK on the Future of Academic Libraries.
She came to scenarios when head of strategy at ICL now part of Fujitsu, where she built
a billion £ business in 4 years. Her career in the IT industry included software, a
semiconductor start-up, process control, and research and product development.
Her books are amazon.com best sellers. She was co-opted to the EC’s High Level
Group on Converging Technologies and is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and
Sciences. Her next book, to be published February 2010, is “Beyond Crisis”, using
scenarios for the new world order to provide blueprints for management.
Ms. Iulia Mărieş
Iulia Mărieş is a doctoral student in the field of Economic Cybernetics and
Statistics at the Bucharest University of Economics. The title of her thesis is
“Collective Intelligence in Economic Cognitive Systems”. She is interested in
collective intelligence domain, cognitive systems, and applications in multi-agent
systems and complex systems. She is currently employed as work-package
assistant in the “Quality & Leadership for Romanian Higher Education”, working
on the development of a Foresight Wikipedia.
Dr. Katja Pook
Dr. Katja Pook integrates business practice and research interests
concerning intangible value drivers in organisations. This covers the
areas of Intellectual Capital management, knowledge management,
organisational and human resources development and process
design. She is an independent consultant and a certified “Systemic
consultant and psychotherapist” (based on systems thinking in
social systems). For over 10 years, Dr. Pook has been working with companies of
different sizes and business sectors in Europe, and participated in European projects as
an academic researcher and consultant, a partner for practical application and currently
as an external advisor. She is member of scientific committees for academic
conferences and of the editorial board of the International Journal of Mobile Learning
and Organisation (IJMLO).
Dr. Katja Pook has been working on the integration of Intellectual Capital management
and Foresight to foster participatory approaches in vision building and strategy
management. She has participated in the initiative HEROs on managing and reporting
Intangibles by Higher Education and Research Organisations.
Combining different perspectives (human, organisational, technical), her main interest
lies in unlocking and developing the intellectual potential of people and thus creating
intelligent organizations and a human working environment to foster personal, economic
and social progress.
Ms. Kiira Karkkainen
Kiira Kärkkäinen is an analyst at the OECD Centre for Educational
Research and Innovation (CERI) that concentrates on forwardlooking research, educational innovation as well as on international
exchange of knowledge and experience. Kiira currently works on
the University Futures project aiming to inform and facilitate
strategic decision-making in higher education by exploring what may
be possible, different roles for higher education in future societies. The project comprises
trends analysis, international stakeholder dialogue and scenario building. Another project
Kiira is working on is the Innovation Strategy for Education and Training, covering both
education for innovation and innovation in education.
Prior to joining CERI in May 2008, Kiira has worked on forward-looking education policy
issues in the Nordic context as well as on educational partnership in developing
countries. She has also experience in international development policy, co-operation and
diplomacy at the European Commission, UNESCO, Finnish UN Mission and in Romania.
Kiira holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, France,
and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki, Finland, with
major in Political Science and International Relations.
Mr. Laurenţiu Dascălu
Laurenţiu Dascălu is student in the field of Computer Science at University
Politehnica of Bucharest. He is a contributor to free technologies. He is
currently employed as technical expert in the “Quality & Leadership for
Romanian Higher Education”, to develop FORWiki, a MediaWiki based
platform for Foresight Studies.
Dr. Liviu Andreescu
Liviu Andreescu teaches American Studies at the Spiru Haret University in
Bucharest. He holds a PhD in political science from the National School of
Political Studies and Administration (SNSPA, Bucharest), and has worked as an
expert in several higher-education-related projects. He is a founding member and
member of the board of the association Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience and
a researcher of church-state policy and religious affairs. He has published in,
among others, Europe-Asia Studies, Religion State & Society, Educational
Theory, and Studies in Philosophy and Education.
Prof. Marian Zulean
Marian Zulean is an Assistant Professor at University of Bucharest, where he
holds public policy classes, policy of national security and social policy. He holds
a Master in MPIA, University of Pittsburgh, doctorate in sociology and a
postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow in the department of sociology at the University of
Maryland.
His area of expertise includes the analysis of public policy, the international
security and the civil military relations. In the period 2001-2008 he held the title of
expert in the Presidential Administration’s departments: International Relation and
National Security, Officer in the reserve, specialized research.
Ms. Mihaela Cucu
Mihaela Cucu has a BA in Economics at The Bucharest Academy of
Economic Studies. She has experience in events organization. She is
currently employed as expert in events organization in the “Quality and
Leadership for Romanian Higher Education” project.
Ms. Mihaela Ghişa
Mihaela Ghişa is a member of the “Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher
Education” (QLHE) project team. She is assistant for WP1 “Vision and Strategy”, the
package responsible for “elaborating a collaborative vision document of the Romanian
higher education system at the horizon 2025”. Mihaela is also a PhD student in the 1st
year at the Sociology Department within University of Bucharest. Her thesis is related
to foresight for public policy.
Prior to QLHE, Mihaela had been working in consulting – mostly related European
Funding for ITC in public sector. She also used to work for youth and student
organizations as well as non-governmental organizations. During her life as a student
she attended several internships within Ministry of European Integration, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and the Romanian Parliament.
Mihaela holds a BA degree in Political Science and a BA in Communication and Public
Relations both from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in
Bucharest. She has a Master in Strategic Management for Social Development within
the Sociology Department from University of Bucharest.
Prof. Murray Turoff
Professor Turoff is credited with having designed the Policy Delphi
process and the first instant of an online Delphi system back in the
early 70's while at the Office of Emergency Preparedness in the
Executive Office of the President. He is also co author of the
award winning book "The Network Nation: Human Communication
via Computer" in 1978. His research in his thirty three years at NJIT has been devoted
to many applications of Computer Mediated Communications oriented to the support of
groups and teams including online learning. He has extensive experience with the
design of foresight and policy studies using the Delphi process and related
assessment methods. While at OEP he designed the first online management system
for Emergency Management which was used in 1971for the U.S. Wage-Price-Freeze
and numerous U.S. government crisis situations till the mid 80's. After 2001 he turned
his attention back to the design Emergency Management Information Systems and is a
co-founder the professional organization ISCRAM (Information Systems for Crisis
Response and Management). He is a co-editor of the classic Delphi Method Book
from 1975 and of a new book on Emergency Management Information Systems which
will be out in 2009.
Mr. Octavian Popa
Octavian Popa is currently employed as a work-package assistant within the project
“Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education” (QLHE). He is a
member of WP1, “Vision and Strategy”, the package responsible for elaborating
a collaborative vision document of the Romanian Higher Education System.
Octavian holds a BA degree in Management at the Bucharest Academy of
Economic Studies, and graduated with a thesis on “Change Management”. He
also holds a BA in Law and Public Administration at Spiru Haret University in
Bucharest, and currently enrolled in a master programme called Master of
Project-Based Business Management at The Bucharest Academy of Economic
Studies. In his life as a student he attended an exchange programme in the
United States of America, and also several internships within companies in the
field of education.
Dr. Ozcan Saritas
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Ozcan Saritas is a research fellow at PREST/MIoIR Manchester
Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester. He is
also editor of "Foresight" journal.
The main expectation from the workshop:
The demonstration of the ideas developed in a workshop focusing on the Romanian
HE System. This effort will aim to support the ongoing Foresight project on HE in
Romania. Through the appreciation of the HE system, its complex and multifaceted
nature will be explored. The outputs/outcomes produced will then constitute input for
the entire the HE Foresight exercise.
Prof. Paul Dragoş Aligică
Paul Dragoş Aligică is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
He earned his PhD in political science from Indiana University, Bloomington. He also earned a PhD in
economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and a PhD in sociology from the
University of Bucharest. In addition to his academic work, he has served as an expert to large
international consulting firms and as an advisor or project partner to institutions such as the United
Nations Development Program, the World Bank, European Union organizations and the United States
Agency for International Development.
His newest book, Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School
(Routledge, London), co-authored with Peter Boettke, examines Elinor Ostrom’s (2009 Nobel Prize in
Economics) Institutional Theory. His previous books include The Neoliberal Revolution in Eastern
Europe: Economic Ideas in Transition, with Anthony Evans (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham,
2009); Prophecies of Doom, Scenarios of Progress (Continuum Publishers, London, 2007). He is the
co-editor of In Defense of Thinking: The Essential Herman Kahn (Lexington Books - Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2009).
He has published in journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Futures,
Comparative Strategy, Revue française d’economie, Public Organization Review, International
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Global Business & Economics Review, East European
Economics, International Journal of Business and Globalization, East European Politics and
Societies, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
His current book project is Social Theory, Philosophy and Futurology. Thinkers and Ideas of a
Prospective Discipline.
Prof. Paul Şerban Agachi
Paul Şerban Agachi is involved in academic leadership, Member of the
Council for Quality in HE, General Chancellor and Vice-rector of Babeş-Bolyai
University, President of the Academic Council of Babeş-Bolyai University – with
attributions of strategies and foresight and Member of the Consultative Commission of ARACIS.
His expertise include positions such as Professor of Theory of Systems and Process Control, Higher
Education expert for UNESCO, Program Oil for Food, Iraq, Higher Education expert for UNESCO, in the
Phare Program of Reform of Higher Education in Romania, Coordinator and member of the Working
Groups of elaboration of the Romanian Research and Development Strategy and elaboration of the
National Research and Development Plan (PNCDII 2007-2013), Member of the team of the project of
assessment of the results of the first National Research and Development Plan (PNCD I 1999-2006),
Coordinator of the Working Groups of „Differentiation of the Universities in Romania” (Project Quality and
Leadership for HE in Romania) and „Programs of excellence for supporting research of excellence”
(Project Doctoral programs in Schools of Excellence), Strategic planning, university by-laws.
Paul is a member of Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, member of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers, member of European Federation of Chemical Engineering, member of International
Association of Automatic Control, member of International Ranking Expert Group and member of the
Strategic Committee of the Region North-West of Romania.
Mr. Radu Gheorghiu
Radu Gheorghiu is a researcher at the Institute of World Economy in Bucharest
and since 2003 he is also collaborating with the Executive Agency for higher
Education and Research Funding on foresight projects. Among these projects, in
2005-2006 he has been in the coordinating team of the consultations for the
elaboration of the Romanian Strategy for Research, Development and Innovation
2007-2013, while for the period 2008-2011 he is involved in the coordination of
the foresight project “Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education”.
Dr. Riel Miller
Riel Miller is a global specialist in designing and implementing
strategic foresight projects. For over twenty five years his work has
concentrated on how to assess and direct the potential for socioeconomic transformation in the private and public sectors. His
clients span the private and public sectors from Cisco Systems and
Philips to the Government of Ireland, the state of Catalonia, the Government of Canada
and the European Commission. Riel is widely published on topics ranging from the
future of the financial sector and the internet to the future of schooling and social equity.
He teaches around the world and is currently a faculty member of the Masters in Public
Affairs, Institut de Sciences Politique (Sciences-Po), Paris, France. Riel is also currently
a board member of the Association of Professional Futurists; a Fellow of the World
Futures Studies Federation; a member of the board of Strax, The Research Unit for
Strategic Intelligence and Exploration of the Future, Helsinki University of Technology;
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, UK; a member of the
American Economics Association; and an Associate at Demos, London, UK. See:
www.rielmiller.com
Prof. Starr Roxanne Hiltz
Starr Roxanne Hiltz is currently Distinguished Professor Emerita,
College of Computing Sciences, NJIT. She has been involved in
innovation in online learning since the 1980s. Her books on this
topic include The Virtual Classroom (1994), Learning Networks (coauthor, 1995) and
Learning Online Together (coauthor, 2005). Other research interests include virtual
teams and online communities, Emergency Response Information Systems,
Pervasive Computing, research methods (including surveys, Delphi studies,
experiments, field studies and focus groups), and applications and impacts of “social
computing” (“Web 2.0”) systems. http://is.njit.edu/hiltz
Mr. Viorel Proteasa
Viorel Proteasa has a BA in Physics, Masters in Physics of the Condensed Matter. He
has also graduated Management, but has not defended the thesis yet. He was a
member of the Executive Committee of the European Students’ Union.
His quality assurance experience involves evaluating universities against Institutional
Evaluation Programme methodology with ongoing missions at the Pamukkale University
of Denizli, Turkey and the University of Evora, Portugal; coordinating ENQA external
evaluation of quality assurance agencies in higher education against the ESG, evaluated
agencies: NEAA – Bulgaria (June 2008), PKA - Poland (October 2008); coordinating first
ESU audit of a national quality assurance agency, ARACIS – Romania, the agency was
evaluated against the ESG, with special focus on enhancing student participation;
writing the QA chapter of the Bologna With Student Eyes 2009 edition. He is also a
lecturer for the Romanian Quality Assurance Agency on the Self Evaluation Process and
Report.
Dr. Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar, writer, broadcaster and cultural critic, is visiting
Professor of Postcolonial Studies at School of Arts, the City
University, London. He is the author of over 45 books, including
his classic studies, The Future of Muslim Civilisation (1979) and
Islamic Futures: The Shape of Ideas to Come (1985), the cultish Postmodernism and
the Other (1998), and the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America?
(2002). A collection of his writings is available as Islam, Postmodernism and Other
Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (2003) and How Do You Know?: Reading Ziauddin
Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations (2006).
His two volumes of autobiographies, Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a
Sceptical Muslim and Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian British, have
received wide acclaim.
He is the Editor of Futures, a Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights
Commission. He is widely known for his radio and television appearances.