The Regent Group, Global. Mark Russell has recently joined Regent Institute Middle East as the Academic Dean. Mark brings extensive experience and expertise in education management and leadership to the position. He held full professorial titles at the University of Hertfordshire, King’s College London and Khalifa University. He won the UK ‘e-tutor of the year’, and was awarded a UK National Teaching Fellowship award. In discussing his appointment Mark highlights “the incredible clarity and significant vision of Regent’s leadership team”, and his desire to “foster intellectual curiosity and develop independent and autonomous within Regent’s learners”. Doing so, he suggests, “enables Regent’s learners to create life changing opportunities, be an active part of the ‘Dubai growth story’ and have all the needed attributes and mindset to become leaders of the future”.