John DAVIES

Emeritus Professor John L. Davies has a career which includes senior institutional management and international research, consultancy and teaching in the field of higher education policy and management.  He has been since 2000 a Visiting Professor of Higher Education Management at the International Centre for Higher Education Management at Bach University (and one of the founders of the DBA) and also the Copenhagen Business School.  He has been Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at Anglia Ruskin University, and has also been Dean of the Anglia Business School and Dean of the Graduate School at Anglia; and Pro Vice Chancellor (Quality and Organisation Development) at La Trobe University, Australia.

He has been one of the leading commentators on European higher education management for many years and has been a Consultant with the OECD, the European Rectors Conference (EUA), UNESCO, Soros Foundation, World Bank and the European Commission.  He has undertaken numerous strategic consultancy projects in higher education in 60 countries including Brazil, UK, India, Australia, Netherlands, Argentina, Finland, Sweden, Italy, South Africa, New Zealand, Russia and Denmark.  His recent projects are in the Republic of Ireland, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Pakistan, Sweden and with the Vatican and Magna Charta Observatory for Universities.

He is very active internationally as a leader, author and team member of strategic audits/reviews of universities especially with the EUA Institutional Evaluation Project; the International Quality Review Project undertaken jointly by EUA, OECD (IMHE) and ACA; the Salzburg Seminar’s Visiting Adviser Programme and latterly with the Australian Universities Quality Agency, the Lithuanian Quality Agency and the Bahrain HE Review Unit. 

He has been active nationally and internationally in establishing flagship higher education leadership and management programmes for universities in UK, Europe, Latin America and Australia.

He has authored 80 plus international strategic review reports.  His main consultancy, publications and research interests for international, intergovernmental, national, government and HE organisations have been focused on various strands of strategic university development, including internationalisation, strategic planning and quality assurance, the regional role of universities, institutional mergers and reconfigurations, and legislation for Higher Education reform.  He is also currently active in the field of Living Values at institutional, national and global levels in the University sector.