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Lisa Looney
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland
Professor Lisa Looney is DCU Vice President for Academic Affairs and Registrar and a member of the DCU senior management team. As well as having responsibility for units within Academic Affairs, Lisa leads both the DCU Futures project and the Student Information System project: two very significant transformational projects underway in the university.
Prior to taking up this role, she was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computing (2017-2020), Dean of Graduate Studies (2011-2016), and a founding member of academic staff in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in DCU.
Prof. Lisa Looney will start the conference with innovative and visionary ideas about the purpose and functions of higher education around the world as it might be thirty years from now.
Prof. Looney has specific expertise in collaborative provision of academic programmes, internationalisation of programmes, and has a long track record of activity relating to attracting, retaining, and examining the career experience of women in technology based professions.