AUSSIE

PETER AUER has been a highly successful educator at the local, regional, national and international levels specializing in in-service education for more than 25 years. Peter began as a middle school and high school teacher in Victoria, Australia where he also became an examiner in History for the Victorian Universities and Schools Examination Board. He then spent more than twenty years in teacher education with Melbourne University, Hawthorn Institute of Education and Deakin University where he developed undergraduate and post-graduate courses focusing upon curriculum development and pedagogy for both pre-service and in-service education. Peter has also worked as a consultant on numerous education projects in Australia, England, Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Sudan, Kuwait, Costa Rica and various countries of the Caribbean. As a recent consultant to the World Bank in Washington, DC for c. 7 years, he was responsible for the coordination of the Learning and Knowledge-Sharing Program of the Global Development Learning Network which developed cutting-edge programs delivered by distance education technologies.

Peter has a Masters of International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University: School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC; a Master of Arts in Education Administration, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; a Bachelor of Education from Monash University, Victoria, Australia; a Diploma of Education and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He also has a Certificate in Professional Development in Distance Education, University of Oldenburg, Germany and the University of Maryland.

An avid skier, diver, tennis player and Marathon runner, Peter lives in New York City with his wife, Caroline and Jack Russell, Harry, for the benefits this city provides intellectually and culturally.