Paul Turner, a higher education specialist with more than 25 years of experience in China and Hong Kong, has been named the new IIE East Asia Regional Director, overseeing both IIE's Beijing and Hong Kong offices. For the last 10 years, Mr. Turner served as the Asia Pacific Director and Business Development Director for NCUK, a consortium of eleven British universities. Mr. Turner also helped to establish the Sino-British College, USST in Shanghai, which is the first degree awarding partnership between a single Chinese university and multiple foreign institutions.