Curriculum Vitae of Aurelija Valeikienė

Aurelija Valeikienė works as Deputy Director at the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (SKVC), Lithuania since 2004. Her areas of expertise include external quality assurance of higher education, academic recognition of foreign qualifications, and internationalisation. In 2013-2014 served as member of ENQA Board, from that time onwards contributed to a number of ENQA working groups, currently serves on the Agency Review Committee which provides internal quality assurance for external reviews of quality assurance agencies in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) coordinated by ENQA. Is ENQA expert for external quality assurance agency reviews and contributes as a trainer of reviewers. Served as Honorary Treasurer (2006-2007), then was elected President of the Network of Central and East European Accreditation in Higher Education Agencies (CEENQA) in 2010-2011. In 2012-2015 was Lithuanian delegate to the pan-European working group on structural reforms (encompassing such themes as quality assurance, qualification frameworks, recognition of qualifications, transparency instruments) at the Bologna Secretariat. In 2015-2018, served in the Advisory Group to support Belarus in the roadmap to EHEA under the Bologna Process Follow-up Group. In 2021-2022, contributed to projects and European Commission’s working group on micro-credentials. Currently is involved in the Bologna Process peer support group on academic recognition (including automatic recognition of qualifications). Has worked as an expert locally and internationally on various projects and was speaker in events, upon invitations from the Council of Europe, the World Bank, European Commission, European Training Foundation, Europe-Asia Foundation, ENQA etc. Prior work experience includes positions in central administration of Vilnius University, Lithuania. Aurelija Valeikienė graduated from Vilnius University (Lithuania) with Bachelor of Philosophy and obtained Master of Science degree in management of non-profit organizations from New York University (USA).