Dorte Kristoffersen is Deputy Executive Director of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, a position she took up on 2 October 2007.

Prior to joining the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ), Dorte was an Audit Director with the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). Dorte joined AUQA in October 2004 and was during her time with AUQA responsible for numerous audits of Australian universities. In addition to the audit responsibilities, Dorte was responsible for AUQA’s workshop and seminar activities, including auditor training workshops, and for the Business Development portfolio. AUQA underwent an external review in 2006 and Dorte was responsible for coordinating the review, including the organisation of AUQA’s self evaluation report.

Dorte has been a member of the Board of the Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) since 2005 and was elected Secretary/Treasurer in February 2007. She is also the chair of an APQN project group on mutual recognition.

Dorte has a strong background in the evaluation and quality assurance of higher education. She has worked with quality assurance of higher education since 1992 and was Deputy Director and Director of Development of the Danish Evaluation Institute from 1999 to 2004. She was on the INQAAHE Board of Directors from 2003 to 2007 and she has been a member of numerous European evaluation agency boards and of international evaluation and review panels. She chaired the review panel for the Chilean Quality Assurance Agency (CNAP) and is chair of the ENQA coordinated review of National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA) in 2007.

Dorte is trained as an assessor in the Business Excellence Model (EFQM) and has experience as a lead assessor in the assessment of Danish public sector institutions.

Contact Details:

23/F Cambridge House
Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road
Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
CHINA

Tel: +852 3658 0000
Fax: +852 2869 4828

Email: dkristoffersen@hkcaavq.edu.hk
Website: www.hkcaavq.edu.hk