Jazreel Goh MBE
Country Director Malaysia
EA Education Insights Hub Director, British Council
Jazreel joined British Council China in June 2004 where she led on the UK’s largest education marketing and partnership initiatives in mainland China. She has worked in various organisations in Malaysia, Australia, as well as Hong Kong in the areas of brand management, corporate planning and investment, international education consultancy, as well as in intellectual property licensing.
Lissapat Kraikruan
Visa outreach officer for UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), British Embassy in Bangkok
Lissapat Kraikruan is responsible for overseeing the dissemination of visa information in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, as well as liaising with the private sector and education institutions across these countries. As a visa outreach officer, Lissapat aims to provide information while strengthening the effectiveness of visa operations and innovating new approaches to provide the optimum UKVI service for applicants.
Samantha Sykes
Customer Success Manager (Advisers)
Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS)
Sam has worked within Operations at UCAS for 7 years and leads who supports those advising applicants through the admissions process such as counsellors, teachers, and advisers. Sam is one of our UCAS’ experts in the customer journey and a regular host for many of the UCAS broadcast streams, from Facebook to Hub lives. She is a qualified teacher and prior to joining UCAS worked in UK secondary education.
Shonagh Maak
International Recruitment Manager (South and South East Asia), University of Glasgow
Lead Agent Quality Framework, Co-opt, British Universities International Liaisons Association (BUILA)
Shonagh has worked with international students since 2008 in a variety of roles across Admissions. Student Services. Accommodation, International Recruitment and Partnerships. She is currently International Recruitment Manager (South and South East Asia) at the University of Glasgow where she leads a team of staff across Glasgow, India, Singapore and Indonesia to grow student enrollment and supports a diverse network of partners from the region. She also leads on the university’s overall agent engagement and management. Shonagh joined Glasgow in 2018 and previously worked at the University of Stirling and INTO Newcastle University. She has served as the Vice Chair of the Scottish Universities International Group and currently works with BUILA as the Co-Opt Lead for the Agent Quality Framework.
Rebecca Lucas-Timpany
Deputy Principal Student Support & University Counsellor
Victoria Shanghai Academy
Rebecca has been a university counsellor for a number of years at VSA and another school in Hong Kong. During the pandemic she moved to a wider role looking at student support across the areas of university counselling, social emotional counselling, and learning enhancements and support. She has an interest in learning across the lifespan.
Emily Benoit
Head of University and Careers Guidance
Victoria Shanghai Academy
Emily recently joined VSA as Head of University and Careers. Previously she worked at YK Pao School in Shanghai, a bilingual school offering IGCSE and the IBDP to majority mainland Chinese students. During her time at YK Pao, Emily helped support applicants who gained offers to Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, LSE, KCL, Imperial, Manchester, Edinburgh, St Andrews, and a range of other UK universities. Prior to moving to China, Emily worked for six years as an undergraduate admissions counsellor at the University of Chicago.