TCL Global, Global. Ryan Powell has been appointed as the new director of UK/international partnerships & business development for TCL Global. Previously, for the past five years Ryan worked as Middle East international recruitment officer and a transnational education (TNE) partnership manager at Cardiff Metropolitan University in the UK. Ryan has worked with a number of agents across the Middle East, attended fairs, events and facilitated student support to study in the UK. Focussed primarily around the Middle East, Ryan developed effective personal working relationships across the region. Regarding his new role, Ryan said: “I am really looking forward to the challenge of representing TCL Global and working with the large number of UK university partners, and the wider TCL team across the world and feel I have a lot to offer the role in continuing support for students looking to study in the UK”.