

Jean VanderGheynst appointed as Dean of the College of the Environment and Life Sciences at the University of Rhode Island


Professor Mary Ryan appointed as Dean, Faculty of Education at Monash University


Chantal Blazquez


Dr Birgit Brandt


New York University appoints Ambassador Martin Kimani appointed to Lead CIC in Advancing Global Peace and Cooperation
Chantal is a Consultant within the Research, Technology and Innovation Practice.
Her experience spans a wide array of senior executive, non-executive and research leadership appointments for universities, independent research institutes and research funding bodies globally.
Birgit Brandt is Regional Managing Partner, Asia Pacific.
Her experience includes Chief Executive and Senior Academic and Administrative appointments in Higher Education and Research, Schools and Global Non-Profit Practices with Asia-Pacific.
Birgit holds a PhD from the University of Warwick in Sociology and MAs in Race and Ethnic Studies and Political Science from Warwick and the Freie Universitat Berlin, respectively. Birgit began her career as a Research Fellow in Berlin moving to the University of Warwick to work in the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations and the Department of Politics and International Studies.
She moved on to join a novel research grants programme that sought to support partnerships between UK universities and charities and was appointed Head of Grants at the Royal Society and Director of Programmes at the British Academy.
She has travelled extensively, including six months in PRC learning Mandarin.