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Oliver Vettori

Oliver Vettori

Dr. Oliver Vettori is Dean of Accreditation and Quality Management and Director of Programmes & Teaching  Learning at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) as well as the alliance-wide Director of Academic Affairs for the ENGAGE.EU European University. In these functions he is responsible, among others, for WU’s/ENGAGE.EUs educational offers,  teaching and learning infrastructure, learning technologies, pedagogical support and quality assurance as well as for managing WU’s program portfolio. Dr. Vettori has been working in higher education management and research for more than two decades, as a reviewer, trainer, researcher and consultant in more than 50 different countries on four different continents including work for EUA, ENQA, UNESCO, ASEAN-QA, EU-SHARE, SIGMA and various government agencies, supranational organisations and higher education institutions. He holds a doctoral degree in Sociology/Organisation Theory from the University of Vienna and is a Research Associate at the Institute for Organization Studies at WU. He is the author of dozens of research publications in the area of higher education and organisation studies. He serves on the international Editorial Board of Quality in Higher Education and is a member of various academic associations (e.g EAIR, CHER).