Dr Andris Barbla Former Secretary General of the European Universities Association Dr Andris Barblan, Swiss national (1943), was educated in English and History in Lausanne and received a PhD in political Science in Geneva in 1973. He became the Secretary General of the CRE, Association of European Universities (1976-2001) and of its successor, EUA, the European University Association (2001-2002). Since then until December 2007, he was Secretary General of the Magna Charta Observatory on the Universities’ Fundamental Values and Rights, Bologna; he also consulted the Mario Boella Institute, Turin, on knowledge development strategies in European cities and took part in the quality evaluation of some 20 universities in wider Europe, the Middle East and South Africa.
