Andrée Sursock is Senior Adviser at the European University Association (EUA). She is the author of the 2010 Trends report, which analyses a decade of policy change in European higher education, and is involved in several EUA projects related to quality assurance and lifelong learning.
Most recently she conducted and wrote a study on internal quality processes in universities and a final report based on the evaluations of five African universities carried out jointly by EUA and the Association of African Universities (AAU).
She serves on the international advisory committee of Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, and on the appeals committee of the Portuguese accreditation agency. She sits in the boards of several QA agencies: in the French Community of Belgium, Switzerland and Dubai.
Between 2001 and 2009, she was Deputy Secretary General at EUA, with responsibilities for developing EUA’s quality assurance policy positions and activities and representing EUA in European and international discussions. Before joining EUA, she was Director of Development at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (Open University, UK), and worked on several European projects related to quality assurance. She taught at a variety of institutions in the USA and held an administrative post at Stanford University.
She earned a first degree in philosophy from the University of Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne, and a PhD in social-cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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