Susanna Karakhanyan, Ph.D. (1971), is President of INQAAHE and her research interests mainly evolve around higher education governance and administration, reforms, policy diffusion and transfer, and external and internal quality assurance. Her research background has helped her tremendously in the establishment of new and evaluation/review of existing external and internal (both quality assurance agencies and higher education institutions) quality assurance systems in a diversity of contexts at the international level.
Bjørn Stensaker, Ph.D. (1965), is a professor of higher education, and the director of LINK - Center for Learning, Innovation and Academic Development at University of Oslo. Dr. Stensaker has a special interest in studies of governance and change in higher education, not least in the area of external and internal quality assurance. He has published widely on these issues in a number of international journals and book series.

The Global Trends in Higher Education Quality Assurance: Challenges and Opportunities in Internal and External Quality Assurance provides a comprehensive coverage of the trends and developments in higher education quality assurance as they refer to legitimacy/trust, efficiency and relevance.