Gordon Slaven is the British Council’s Director Global Partnerships (US) and New York. He builds partnerships for the British Council with UN agencies and US organizations, institutions and foundations to collaborate on cultural relations work around the world, in the areas of education, arts, society and English language. Until the end of March 2009 he was Director of Education, Science and Society (ESS) for the British Council globally. He has a particular interest in the role of cultural interaction in an increasingly globalised world; and in the role of cultural expectations in education, skills and governance in promoting innovation and developing a knowledge-based economy. As Director ESS, he sat on a number of groups dealing with international education: co-chair of the Education UK (PMI2) Programme Board; member of the Education UK Partnership Executive Board; member of UKTI’s Sector Advisory Group for Education; and in 2006-07 was a member of the steering group for the Lord Mayor of the City of London’s global education, training and qualifications (ETQ) initiative for financial services.
Before returning to the UK at the end of 2005, he was Director of the British Council in Taiwan. Previously he was Director Education for the British Council in China, where he drafted the original 2000 framework agreement for educational co-operation between the UK and China, and worked with the Higher Education Funding Council of England to establish an ongoing dialogue between the UK and China in higher education strategy development. He has also been involved in managing development projects in the education sector in China, East Asia and Africa. Prior to joining the British Council he was a teacher and teacher trainer in UK, Africa and the Middle East.
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