Dr Jagannath Patil is Deputy Adviser of NAAC- National Assessment and Accreditation Council and Convener of the OC of APQN 2011 conference. Dr Patil has served as consultant on various national and international missions including that of UNESCO, World Bank, IIEP etc. As experienced QA Professional of the leading QA agency and Board member of APQN for several years, he has shared his QA expertise to many HEIs and QAAs across the world. His most recent assignment was as consultant on UNESCO/ World Bank mission to Association of African Universities- AAU, Accra to help capacity building initiative of emerging African QA Network. He leads an international Project group on 'Student Participation in Quality Assurance' under the auspices of Asia Pacific Quality Network-APQN. He is recently elected as Board member of APQN after serving 5 years as co-opted and elected member.

As an Adviser of NAAC he has coordinated Assessment and Accreditation exercise of more than 300 Higher Educational Institutions. He is also associated with large number of activities of NAAC including workshops, assessors training programmes and surveys. Dr Patil was also convener of international conference on student participation hosted by NAAC and APQN jointly.
He has visited Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Sri lanka, Mauritius, Japan and the United States of America on academic assignments and made presentations and/or conducted workshops in quality assurance as resource person. He is associated with major initiatives of APQN including Membership drive, Brand APQN and Consultant database working group etc. Dr. Patil is also Moderator of APARNET, an online community of UNESCO Bangkok.

He has authored and edited several publications on accreditation and quality assurance under the auspices of NAAC, APQN and other international fora. Apart from several papers, He has published two prominent books-'Best practices in student feedback and Participation' and "International perspectives on student participation in quality enhancement' on behalf of NAAC and APQN. He has also conducted more than dozen workshops on student participation in Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, USA, Japan, Australia and India. Recently, he has received a prestigious international award by the Government of Australia titled- Endeavour India Executive Award for year 2007.

Contact Details:

Deputy Adviser, National Assessment and Accreditation Council
NAAC, P. O. Box No. 1075, Nagarbhavi,, Bangalore – 560 072
Karnataka, India

Tel: +91 80 2300 5116
Mob: +94 4902 7036
Fax: +91 80 2321 0268

Email 1: jp.naacindia@gmail.com
Email 2: jp_naac@yahoo.co.in
Website: www.naacindia.org/