Micheal Thair

Dr. Micheal Thair, holds Australian and United Kingdom citizenship and is currently a resident of Viet Nam. He has more than 20 years experience of international experience in the education sector including Technical & Vocational, Tertiary, Secondary, and Basic Education. This expertise includes team leadership and project management, Project Cycle (Design, Feasibility, Appraisal, Implementation and Evaluation); human resource development; capacity building; decentralization; educational materials development and procurement; monitoring and evaluation; teacher training; teaching and learning methodologies; education service delivery and management; curriculum design; train-the-trainer; and the cross-cutting issues of equity, gender, rights, and poverty. Dr. Thair has worked for a wide range of organizations including the ADB, WB, EU, and DFID in more than 10 countries spanning the regions of Europe, South/South East Asia, Middle East, and the Pacific.

His academic and research focus has been in the area of teacher professional development. Since 1978 Dr. Thair has worked on twenty-seven international projects and with a strong emphasis in the area teacher professional development. These activities have included in-service and pre-service teacher training, system wide plans for institutional and human resource capacity building, teacher training curriculum development, training of trainers, and teacher accreditation and reward systems.