Governing Board

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning has a Governing Board consisting of members who are nominated intuitu personae by the Director-General of UNESCO. The Governing Board is made up of education experts from different regions of the world who meet once a year to review the progress of the Institute's work and plan future policy.

Composition of the UIL Governing Board

Full member	Alternate
Chair of the UIL Governing Board Mr Daniel BARIL* ** Director General Institute for Cooperation for Adult Education Canada	Mr Pierre DORAY Professor University of Québec  Canada
Ms Zohour ALAOUI Former President of the UNESCO General Conference Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco in Berlin Morocco
Ms Sarah ANYANG AGBOR* ** Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology African Union  Cameroon	Mr Edward Oben AKO Rector University of Maroua Republic of Cameroon
M. Abdel Rahamane BABA-MOUSSA Secretary-General Conference of Ministers of Education of the States and Governments of the Francophonie Bénin	Mme Kanlé J. C. NAPPORN Membre du Centre de Pédagogie Universitaire Assurance Qualité Bénin
Ms Rudo Mabel CHITIGA Former Permanent Secretary Ministry of Women’s Affairs Community, Small + Medium Enterprises Development Zimbabwe	Mr Davidson MIDZI Chairman/Senior Lecturer of the Adult Education Department University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Mr Jamal BIN HUWAIREB Chief Executive Officer Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation United Arab Emirates	Mr Wes HARRY Director of Human Capital Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation United Arab Emirates
Ms Cláudia COSTIN ** Director Center for Excellence and Innovation of Education Policies (CEIPE-FGV) Brazil	Ms Raquel DE OLIVEIRA Vice President Education and Public Policy GIGALIME Brazil
Mr Hartwig LÜDTKE * Vice-President German Commission for UNESCO Federal Republic of Germany	Mr Christoph WULF Vice-President German Commission for UNESCO Germany
Mr Per MAGNUSSON Senior Programme Manager Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) Sweden	Mr Stellan ARVIDSSON-HYVING Programme Manager Department of Asia, Middle East + Humanitarian Aid Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Sweden
Ms Miriam NICADO GARCÍA Rector University of Havana Cuba
Ms Ethel Agnes PASCUA-VALENZUELA Director Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Secretariat Thailand	Mr Kritsachai SAMSOMAN Deputy Director Administration and Communication Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Secretariat Thailand
Mr Jin YANG Ambassador, Permanent Delegate Permanent Delegation of the People's Republic of China to UNESCO People’s Republic of China	Mr Zhou ZUOYU Vice-President Beijing Normal University People’s Republic of China