Wondwosen Tamrat
Wondwosen Tamrat (PhD, Associate Professor) is a HE researcher and President of St. Mary’s University (SMU), a pioneer private higher education institution in Ethiopia which he founded in 1998. He is a collaborating scholar of the Program for Research on Private Higher Education (PROPHE) headquartered at the State University of New York at Albany, US. He has PhD in Higher Education from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (Outstanding); another MA in English Language Teaching from the University of Warwick in England (Distinction), a Graduate Certificate in Quality Assurance in Higher Education from the University of Melbourne in Australia and a third Master's degree in Tertiary Education Management from the same University. He has taught at Kotebe College of Teacher Education, Addis Ababa University and SMU in Ethiopia for more than twenty years. His knowledge of the Ethiopian higher education sector embodies more than two decades of active participation and dedicated service. He had served as a member of the Higher Education Relevance and Quality Assurance Agency (HERQA) board for three terms. He is the immediate past vice- president of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (2013- 2018), Board member and Vice-president of the Association of Private Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia (2018- 2022), a board member of the Ethiopian ICT Excellence Centre, , and Jury of the Ethiopian Quality Award. At global level, he is the Board member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) and also of The International Association of Universities (IAU) representing Africa. At continental level, he serves as the coordinator for the private higher education sub-cluster of the higher education cluster set up to achieve the Africa Union's Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA), and as a member of the International Advisory Board of the International Journal of African Higher Education (IJHEA). He has presented and published several papers on Ethiopian higher education both at national and international fora, including the publication of more than 60 articles, over 100 blog commentaries and 4 books: The Anatomy of Private Higher Education in Ethiopia (sole author, 2008), The Evolving Quality Assurance Framework in Ethiopian Higher Education (sole author, 2012), the Bloomsbury Handbook of the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Global South (co-editor, 2021), and Higher Education in Ethiopia: Themes and Issues from an African Perspective ( sole author, Brill, 2022).
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Phone: 02515537994
Address: St. Mary's University,Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
POB 1211
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Phone: 02515537994
Address: St. Mary's University,Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
POB 1211
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