Principals

Josef Konvitz joined  the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  in 1992  after nearly twenty years on the  history faculty of Michigan State University. He joined the OECD in 1992, serving as Principal Administrator, Urban Affairs Division, 1992-95, Head, Urban Affairs Division, 1996-2003, Head, Regulatory Policy Division, 2003-2011..

Dr. habil Balázs Németh is a researcher in European adult and lifelong learning policy development and comparative adult education.

Chris Shepherd is the Vice-Chair of the PASCAL Board and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Chris Shepherd has a distinguished career that has bridged local government, consultancies and the academic world. He is the former Strategic Director for the London Borough of Lewisham, the Chief Executive of the Borough of Dartford and a former Director of the Kent Thameside Development Agency which led one of the largest regeneration projects in the UK.

A Chartered European Engineer with specialisation in Design, Academic Enterprise, Human Communications and Team Building.  Research areas include space and resource utilisation, design methods, the product introductory process,  technology and knowledge transfer, multi-media for professional communications,  partnering,  cultural change,  action learning,  the information superhighway and simulation, which included virtual reality design.  He was one time managing director of Britain’s first commercial videodisc company and designer of the Menuhin Auditori