2009 Chairperson and Advisory Board

We would like to extend a special thank you to our Chairperson and Advisory Board for playing an instrumental role in bringing the E-ATP conference to Europe. Their guidance and expertise will allow us to craft an agenda that best reflects the emerging and future trends in the European testing community. Click here to find out more about E-ATP and the Association of Test Publishers.

You may also view additional information about our conference programme here.

Chair E-ATP

Paul Howarth
Managing Director
Pearson VUE EMEA
Mr. Howarth manages the UK business and oversees the operations of the EMEA region. He has held a number of technical and strategic positions within Pearson including the Financial Times, Pearson PLC and Pearson Education. His priorities include delivering operational excellence to his customers and building new business in the region by leveraging the infrastructure of the world’s largest CBT program which is managed by Pearson VUE in the UK. Mr. Howarth holds an MA from Oxford University and a MBA from London Business School.

Vice-Chair E-ATP

Eugene Burke
Director of Design and Innovation
SHL Group Limited
During Mr. Burke’s time at SHL he has worked as a consultant on job competency modelling, assessment and recruitment systems for a range of high profile organisations in the public and private sectors, not least the Fire Service and Police. He has also been involved with developing leading edge selection methods for pilot and air traffic controller selection, and systems for
 HR human capital audits. Currently, Mr. Burke’s main areas of interest include computer-generated talent assessments and the effects of organisational culture on businesses.

Appointed originally as UK R&D director in late 1998, Mr. Burke has worked extensively on a range of applications from Internet testing, personality-based models of Emotional Intelligence, learning and effective team performance, as well as the links between company brand and company culture.

Mr. Burke is well known in the field of Occupational Psychology – he is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), Chairs Publications and Communications for the BPS’s Division of Occupational Psychology and is a Management Board Member of the Association of Business Psychologists. In addition, he has also been involved in national and international committees on standards in psychometric testing, chairing the BPS Steering Committee on Test Standards for five years. His publications in the area of objective assessment include contributions to the Journal of Occupational Psychology and Journal of Managerial Psychology, among others.

Secretary E-ATP

Erwin van Schaffelaar
Business Developer
Cito

Erwin van Schaffelaar works as business developer at Cito in the Netherlands. Before he came to work for Cito he had specialised himself in process optimisation within the production and process industry. Now together with Cito’s business development team he is responsible for the international market where his focus is on European countries. His main objective is helping countries to improve the quality of their education by developing a monitoring system build on their curriculum. He is a big supporter of an assessment system that tracks pupils’ progress as a tool to help the schools to enhance their educational level. ‘No child left behind’ is a statement he underpins.
For 2009, organising the first E-ATP conference (Brussels) is number one on his list. Together with an excellent team, under supervision of Nikki Pope (conference manager), he will work – for all members and attendees - towards an unforgettable event.

Past-Chair (2008)

Cor Sluijter
Director of Vocational, Adult and Higher Education
Cito
Cor Sluijter was educated at a Dutch ‘gymnasium’ (grammar school). He graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1985 with an honours degree in psychology. He was awarded a PhD at the same university in 1998. In 1986, having held a research post at the University of Twente, Mr. Sluijter joined Cito (Institute for Educational Measurement) where he held various posts.

From 2003 he has worked as director of the Unit for Beroep, Bedrijf en Educatie / Hoger onderwijs (career, business and education/ higher education) and is responsible for product portfolios for MBO (Dutch senior secondary vocational education), HO/HBO (higher education/ higher professional education) and business.