Dr. Anasse Bouhlal (Finland). Higher Education and TVET Programme Specialist. UNESCO Regional Office for the Gulf States and Yemen. Anasse has been working in the fields of TVET and Higher Education for the past 25 years in Finland and other EU countries. Before joining higher education, he worked in the fields of industry. He was recently transferred to Doha from the Beirut Office, where he served since 2017 as the Regional Programme Specialist in Higher Education for the Arab States. He also had a one-year assignment at HQ in Paris. During this period Anasse worked in close collaboration with Ministries of Higher Education, National Commissions, RCEP, and universities in GCC countries. In previous periods Anasse spent 4 years working for the Ministry of Higher Education in the Sultanate of Oman, Muscat, as Director of the Engineering Programs. In Finland, he worked as a Principal at the University of Tampere (TAMK) where he was involved, among other things, in quality assurance, digital transformation, Research and Innovation, and Internationalisation of HEIs in the Euro-Med Region. He was elected Member of the Management Board and Senate of the Euro-Mediterranean University in Slovenia. Anasse has also been a visiting Professor for several years at the Bordeaux School of Management and Le Havre University in France. Anasse is a citizen of Finland, born in Casablanca, Morocco. He is a holder of a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences and speaks Arabic, French, Finnish, English, and Russian. He is married and he has four sons.