INDONESIA EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Founder and Managing Director of Indonesia Education Partners

Mr. Brook Williams Ross is the Founder and Managing Director of Indonesia Education Partnerships, and through this role he facilitates active engagement by international governments, consortia, and universities with Indonesian institutions for a wide range of partnerships including sponsored student placement, exchanges, credit transfer, dual degrees, workforce development, and research collaborations. Prior to leading Indonesia Education Partnerships, Mr. Ross was the Director of the ACCESS Education and Siswa Bangsa ("Nation's Scholars") programs of the Putera Sampoerna Foundation, Indonesia's largest education philanthropy foundation, and the Indonesia Country Coordinator for EducationUSA. In both of these positions he worked to support international universities seeking to engage with Indonesia, both with the nation's students and its educational institutions. Among his earlier roles, Mr. Ross was the Indonesia Partnership Coordinator for the American Red Cross following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, where he managed a wide range of partnerships in the post-tsunami relief and rehabilitation efforts, working in Aceh, Indonesia for three years, including as both the Indonesia Grants Administrator for the American Red Cross and the Livelihoods Coordinator for economic recovery. He earned his Masters Degree in Cultural Anthropology focusing on economic development in Indonesia from the University of Tennessee and his MBA in International Business from Johnson & Wales University. He currently resides in Jakarta, and has studied, lived, and worked in different regions of Indonesia for fifteen years.

Mrs. Christina Dewi has over 20 years of event management and hospitality coordination both in the U.S. and Indonesia, and is the lead coordinator of our many successful delegations, conferences, training workshops, alumni events, press conferences, education fairs, and other programs in Indonesia and abroad. She regularly hosts presidents of international universities and government officials in both Indonesia and the United States, and together with her program and marketing team ensures that high quality international standards are met in all events. Christina holds hospitality management degrees from Switzerland and the United States, and has her MBA in International Business from Johnson & Wales University in the United States.

Mrs. Diana Devi applies to international partnership facilitation the direct experience from her most recent role as the Vice Rector for Collaboration and Institution Development from a Indonesian private university, and as such liaises strong with the Indonesian university leadership to affect productive partnership development. She brings fifteen years of rich experience in education leadership and program management in Indonesia, including as the founder of a women-focused NGO in Indonesia, the manager of humanitarian programming during the conflict and post-tsunami periods in Aceh, in addition to her senior leadership roles at Jabal Ghafur University. Devi received her Bachelors Degree from International Islamic University in Malaysia and her Masters in Education Management from Syiah Kuala University in Indonesia.