{"id":6351,"date":"2019-02-01T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T08:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/three-ait-vice-presidents-approved-board-trustees\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T08:56:29","slug":"three-ait-vice-presidents-approved-board-trustees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/2019\/02\/three-ait-vice-presidents-approved-board-trustees\/","title":{"rendered":"Three AIT Vice Presidents Approved by the Board of Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 31, 2019, the AIT Board of Trustees unanimously approved the appointment of the three new Vice Presidents.\u00a0 The three new VP\u2019s are:<\/p>\n

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Prof Deepak Sharma<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2014\u00a0Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA),<\/b>\u00a0Professor Deepak Sharma.\u00a0 Professor Sharma has been Director of the Center for \u00a0Energy Policy and Professor of Energy Planning and Policy at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).\u00a0 He has been a UTS faculty member ever since receiving his\u00a0PhD<\/span> at AIT in 1991.\u00a0 He also received his master’s degree at AIT. The new VPAA will oversee the Schools and will work with Deans and faculty to inject more innovation into our research and\u00a0teaching,<\/span>\u00a0and to ensure the implementation of our internationalization and more relevant education agenda.\u00a0 He will report for duty on April 1, 2019.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Russell Bruce Rein.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2014 Vice President for Administration (VPA)<\/b>, Mr. Russell Bruce Rein.\u00a0 Mr. Rein is currently Head of Business Services\/Director of Operations with the International Schools Group,\u00a0 Jubail in Saudi Arabia and formerly performed the same role at the United Arab Emirates University and the American University of Phnom Penh. The VPA will oversee finance, human resources, purchasing, facilities, the International School and other operations to ensure a caring and smooth and efficient running campus.\u00a0 He will report for duty on May 1, 2019.<\/p>\n

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Dr Naveed Anwar<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2014 Vice President for Knowledge Transfer (VPKT),<\/b>\u00a0Dr.\u00a0 Naveed Anwar.\u00a0 Dr. Anwar has been a long time Executive Director of AIT Solutions as well as Affiliated Faculty in Structural Engineering, performing outreach, consulting and developing solutions with the business sector in our core strength and innovative areas.\u00a0 He received his\u00a0PhD<\/span>\u00a0from AIT in 2004.The VPKT will oversee the new Entrepreneurship Center, technology transfer policy at AIT, commercialization of research, and industrial relations.\u00a0 He will also work with the VPAA on making the curriculum more relevant.\u00a0 He will report for duty on April 1, 2019.<\/p>\n

On the three new Vice Presidents, President Eden Y. Woon said: \u201cI am extremely pleased with the three high-quality individuals the Board has approved to be on the leadership team of AIT with myself.\u00a0 I am confident they will dedicate themselves to work with the AIT family to bring AIT up to the next level, incorporating into what we do daily more innovation, internationalization, enterprise relevance, entrepreneurship, and care-taking of our campus and stakeholders.\u00a0 We are fortunate to have these new very qualified Vice Presidents help lead AIT.\u00a0 Let us all give them a warm welcome when they begin their duties!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On January 31, 2019, the AIT Board of Trustees unanimously approved the appointment of the three new Vice Presidents.\u00a0 The three new VP\u2019s are: \u2014\u00a0Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA),\u00a0Professor Deepak Sharma.\u00a0 Professor Sharma has been Director of the Center for \u00a0Energy Policy and Professor of Energy Planning and Policy at the University of Technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"theschool":[],"key_thematic_areas":[],"area":[],"sdgs":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"theschool","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theschool?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"key_thematic_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/key_thematic_areas?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"sdgs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ait.ac.th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sdgs?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}