Neena Chappell
Dr. Chapell is perhaps Canada’s leading specialist in the study
of aging and the informal support and formal care of the elderly. She
was the first Director of the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria,
where she currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Social Gerontology.
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She has been widely recognized for her research, including by the Gerontological
Society of America as an “outstanding and continuing contributor
to the advancement of gerontology”. She is an outstanding teacher,
and has supervised numerous post-graduate students.
Myer Horowitz (Chair)
Dr.Horowitz, is currently Professor Emeritus of Education and President
Emeritus (University of Alberta) and Adjunct Professor of Education (University
of Victoria). In addition to a number of activities in the Faculty of
Education, he is involved in UVic’s Youth and Society Research Group
and its Learning and Teaching Centre.
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Dr. Horowitz assumed the presidency
of the University of Alberta August 1, 1979 after serving as its Vice-President
(Academic) (1975-79), Dean of the Faculty of Education (1972-75), and
Professor and Chair of the Department of Elementary Education (1969-72).
In 1999 he was named President Emeritus.
A graduate of the School for Teachers at Macdonald College of McGill University
(1952), Sir George Williams University (1956), the University of Alberta
(1959) and Stanford University (1965), Dr. Horowitz was a classroom teacher
in his native Montreal (1952-60) prior to joining the Faculty of Education
at McGill University (in 1960). While at McGill he established and directed
an alternative program for preparing elementary school teachers. He left
his position as Assistant Dean of Education at McGill in 1969 to become
Chairman of the Department of Elementary Education at the University of
Alberta. From 1971 to 1976 he directed a CIDA-funded teacher education
program with Tanzania.
Following retirement as President (1989), Dr. Horowitz returned to the
Faculty of Education of the University of Alberta as Professor Emeritus
of Education. During the period 1989 to 1998, he served as Special Advisor
for the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada and as Chair of the Labour-Business
Task Force: A Review of Alberta Workers’ Compensation Board Policies,
the Alberta Press Council, the Blue Ribbon Panel on Special Education
of the Alberta Teachers’ Association and the City of Edmonton Property
Tax Committee. He considers as one of his most important activities of
the 1990s his advocacy for the reversal of the Alberta government’s
decision to reduce significantly funding for Kindergartens. He is Past-President
of the Vanier Institute of the Family and a Board Member of the Celanese
Internationalist Fellowship Council. At Royal Roads University he is a
member of its Research Ethics Board and its Education Administration Advisory
Board.
Throughout his career, Dr. Horowitz has considered himself a school-teacher
by profession. Consequently, he values the Honorary Life Membership (in
1995) from the Canadian Education Association, the Life Membership (in
1969) from the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers of Quebec,
and the Honorary Membership (in 1980) and the Certificate of Commendation
(1996) from the Alberta Teachers’ Association. He served as President
of the Early Childhood Education Council of the Alberta Teachers’
Association, the M.E. LaZerte (Edmonton) Chapter of the Canadian College
of Teachers, the Canadian Committee on Early Childhood, and the Education
Society of Edmonton. In November 1996 the Early Childhood Education Council
presented him with its Annual Award and in November 1997 the Alberta School
Boards Association presented him with its President’s Award. He
was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from the following universities:
McGill (1979); Concordia (1982); Athabasca (1989); British Columbia (1990);
Alberta (1990); Victoria (2000); and Brock (2000). In 1991 he received
from Edmonton’s Grant MacEwan Community College its Honorary Distinguished
Citizen College Diploma. In March 2000 the Graduate Students’ Association
of the University of Alberta presented him with its Distinguished Alumnus
Award. When Dr. Horowitz retired from the presidency of the University
of Alberta, the students renamed their theatre in the Students’
Union Building, the Myer Horowitz Theatre. The graduate students established
a number of Myer Horowitz Graduate Scholarships. He was admitted as an
Officer into the Order of Canada in 1990.
Sir Peter North
Sir Peter North brings a wide range of experience and skills to the both
our International Advisory Board and the Academic Council. He is the Principal
of Jesus College, Oxford, and was Vice-Chancellor of the University from
1993-97. He is a lawyer by training and is an Honorary QC.
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He has been
actively involved in law reform in the UK and abroad since the time he
served as a Law Commissioner from 1976-84. He has chaired a number of
major policy reviews on behalf of government, the most recent of which
was the Independent Review of Parades and Marches in Northern Ireland
which resulted in the Public Processions Act 1998. From 1985-88, he also
led the review of Road Traffic Law in the UK. Sir Peter is the Chairman
of ICSTIS, the UK’s Independent Committee for the Supervision of
Standards of Telephone Information Services, the industry-funded watchdog
for premium rate telephone services. In this role he brings very special
and relevant experience to LINC which will depend to a great degree upon
such technologies. He is known for his integrity, sound judgment and strong
analytical skills, enabling him to build consensus and achieve objectives,
often in very challenging situations.
Tan Sri Johari Bin Mat
Dr. Johari was the Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, Malaysia
from September 1994 to September 2000, when he joined LearningWise Malaysia
as Deputy Executive Chairman. His academic qualifications include a B.A.(Hon.)
University of Malaya (1968), a diploma in Training Techniques from the
Royal Institute of Public Administration, London (1971), MPA, UCLA (1976),
Ph.D., USCLA (1979), and a diploma from the Advanced Management Program,
Harvard University (1997).
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He has also held other senior management positions
with the Malaysian public service, including Secretary General, Ministry
of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, and Secretary General, Ministry
of National Unity and Social Development. He has been Director of the
National Institute of Public Administration, and Director for Klang Valley
Planning in the Prime Minister’s Department. He is a Senior officer
of the Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Service, and a Corporate
Member of the Malaysian Institute of Planners. Among many other roles,
he has served as Chairman, Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization
High Officials Meeting (1995–1996 and 2000–2001). Dr Johari’s
experience during challenging and eventful years as Director General of
Education is especially valuable to LearningWise as we begin our first
operations in Malaysia. He has received major honours in his country,
including the PSM (Panglima Setia Mahkota) by His Majesty The Yang Di
Pertuan Agong, the King of Malaysia which carries the title “Tan
Sri”, and the DMSM (Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka) by the state of Melaka
which carries the title “Datuk”.
Terence McGee
Dr. McGee is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia,
and has been Professor of Geography there since 1978, also serving for
many years as the Director of the Institute of Asian Research.
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His areas
of special interest and accomplishments include urbanization in developing
countries, regional geography of Southeast Asia, globalization in the
Asia Pacific region, and geography of Development. He has served as President
of the Canadian Council of Southeast Asian Studies, President of the Canadian
Association of Geographers, and has been a consultant to the United Nations
Development Program, the International Development Research Centre, Canadian
International Development Agency, UN Centre for Human Settlements, and
the Asian Development Bank.
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