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Professor Asha Kanwar joined COL as Education Specialist, Higher Education on 1 March 2003 with the responsibility for working with Commonwealth governments and organisations in the areas of tertiary education systems development, continuing professional education and quality assurance within the context of open and distance learning. Prior to joining COL, Professor Kanwar was a consultant in open and distance learning at UNESCO-BREDA in Dakar, Senegal, on secondment from the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India. One of her primary responsibilities during this assignment was to co-ordinate seven COL-UNESCO projects in sub-Saharan Africa. www.col.org/akanwar

Ms. Andrea Hope, who held this position from January 2001 completed her employment with COL in January 2003 and has now returned to Hong Kong.

 

Mr. Rod Tyrer joined COL in March 2003 as Special Adviser, Strategy, Evaluation and Monitoring with responsibility for assisting in the implementation of a Results-Based Manage-ment (RBM) framework for the organisation. He is on a two-year secondment from the British Department for International Development (DFID), London, where he is a Senior Education Adviser. As a strategic planner, Mr. Tyrer worked for 10 years in the UK higher education system and for four years with the Papua New Guinea Department of Police. www.col.org/rtyrer