Governing Board

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning has a Governing Board consisting of twelve members who are nominated intuitu personae by the Director-General of UNESCO. The Governing Board is made up of education experts from different regions of the world who meet once a year to review the progress of the Institute's work and plan future policy.

Composition of the UIL Governing Board

Chair of the UIL Governing Board Mr Daniel BARIL * ** Director General Institute for Cooperation for Adult Education Canada	Vice Chair of the UIL Governing Board Ms Un Shil CHOI * ** Professor Ajou University Graduate School of Education Republic of Korea
Ms Sarah ANYANG AGBOR Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology African Union  Cameroon	Ms Zohour ALAOUI Former President of the UNESCO General Conference Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco in Berlin Morocco
Mr Jamal BIN HUWAIREB Chief Executive Officer Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation United Arab Emirates	Ms Rudo Mabel CHITIGA Former Permanent Secretary Ministry of Women’s Affairs Community, Small + Medium Enterprises Development Zimbabwe
Ms Cláudia COSTIN Director Center for Excellence and Innovation of Education Policies (CEIPE-FGV) Brazil	Mr Hartwig LÜDTKE * Vice-President German Commission for UNESCO Federal Republic of Germany
Mr Per MAGNUSSON Senior Programme Manager Department for International organisations and Thematic support Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) Sweden	Mr Kilemi MWIRIA International Consultant Kenya
Ms Miriam NICADO GARCÍA Rector University of Havana Cuba	Mr Jin YANG Ambassador, Permanent Delegate Permanent Delegation of the People's Republic of China to UNESCO China