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Andy worked at 3 UK universities in international student recruitment and partnership roles for 16 years before joining QS in 2021. He leads the UK & Ireland client facing team with particular expertise on optimising the student journey on behalf of QS's partners and believes that every student deserves personalised and premium support during their daunting admissions journey. He often presents at international conferences about “Admissues” (admissions issues) and other topical subjects facing international higher education.

Dr Ashwin Fernandes is the Executive Director for Africa, Middle East, and South Asia at QS. He works closely with institutions across the regions to better understand the local context and to support the drive for excellence and capacity building.

During his professional engagement, he has met with senior leaders from the region and is often invited to speak at several conferences and events on university rankings, ratings, education, higher education etc. He has been a panellist on various discussion forums and presented his recommendations on thought provoking topics related to higher education.

Dr Fernandes championed the need for an independent rankings framework for the Arab Region and hence was instrumental in developing the QS Arab Region University Rankings in 2014/15. He also founded India’s first nationwide private sector evaluation framework called QS I-GAUGE.

Isobel, Executive Director of Operations at QS, has previously spent 20 years working across a range of universities, covering leadership roles in international and domestic student recruitment, marketing and admissions. In QS she works with university partners to optimise their admissions services by offering consultation on best practice and enabling solutions to age old challenges such as turnaround times and effective communication approaches. A die hard HE fan and past-university board member, Isobel offers great perspective to any challenge.