Daniella Tilbury is an educator and leader with expertise in higher education for sustainable development. She was the inaugural Rector of the University of Gibraltar and served in higher education leadership positions in Australia, China (Hong Kong) as well as the UK. She has been involved in change for sustainability since the 1990s when her doctoral research influenced international policy and contributed significantly to the progression of sustainability as a key agenda for higher education. She was recently recognised for this work and made an honorary Don by St Catharines College, University of Cambridge (July 2018). Her frameworks for reorienting higher education towards sustainable development led to UN policy advisory roles and to her Chairing several UN Committees including the UN Global Expert Group on Evaluation in Education for Sustainable Development (1995-2015). She leads the UNECE’s strategic strand on Quality and ESD that seeks to build capacity and tools to support the embedding the SDGs into quality frameworks across Europe. Daniella has undertaken commissioned work on behalf of national higher education agencies (HEFCE, HEA, ALTC and QAA) and travelled extensively across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania and Europe to evaluate the investment and quality of higher education programmes. She was a member of the Board of WWF Australia and formed part of the governance team that brought Earth Hour to the World in 2007. She has over 100 books and international refereed articles.

Outline: As higher education institutions respond to the SDGs, questions are being raised as to how we recognize value and share experiences of quality education for sustainable development (UNECE 2019). A proposal of indicators to embed the SDGs into institutional quality evaluation is presented. These are part of an international project led by the Aragon Agency for Quality Assurance and Strategic Foresight in Higher Education (ACPUA) and the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education of Andorra (AQUA), and co-funded by the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE).

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