As more schools are seeking academic guidance and strategic audit provided by SAQS, there was a need to expand the core SAQS infrastructure of Peer Reviewers.

A SAQS Peer Reviewers Workshop was organised by AMDISA in Hybrid mode spread over two half days on Monday, the 29th April and Tuesday, the 30th April, 2024 at AMDISA Secretariat, University of Hyderabad Campus. The participants for this workshop were Peer Reviewers comprising Deans/Directors/Heads of the AMDISA Member institutions identified by SAQS.

The workshop included the following sessions:

Day - 1
1. Inaugural Address
2. Accreditation - Philosophy, Purpose and Processes
3. SAQS - Evolution and Development
4. SAQS - Quality Criteria

Day - 2
1. SAQS Peer Review - Principles, Processes and People
2. Peer Reviewers and Host Institution Interaction
3. Business School's Contribution and Impact Assessment
4. PRT Report
5. Q&A Session, Concluding Remarks & Vote of Thanks

The inaugural session was graced by Prof. V.S.Prasad, Former Director, National Assessment and Accreditation Council & Former Vice Chancellor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, India who was the Keynote Speaker Dr. A. H. Kalro, Chairman, AMDISA SAQS Committee was the co-ordinator of the workshop.

41 participants participated from South Asia in the workshop (23 in-person and 18 online). Participants expressed deep appreciation of the Workshop and the learning accruing from it.

The following were the Resource Persons and Panelists for this Workshop:

1. Prof. Mohammad Abdul Momen - President, AMDISA & Director, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2. Dr. Ashok Joshi - Chairman, AMDISA Local Management Committee; Past President, AMDISA & Director General, Indian Institute of Cost and Management Studies & Research (IndSearch), Pune, India
3. Dr. A. H. Kalro - Chairman, AMDISA SAQS Committee; Former Dean, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Former Director, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode & Former Chairman, Management Evaluation and Accreditation Committee, National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India.
4. Dr. Syed Zahoor Hassan - Past President, AMDISA & Professor Emeritus, Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB) and Former Vice Chancellor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan.
5. Dr. S. Padam - Chairman, AMDISA SAQS Accreditation Awarding Committee & Former Dean of Studies, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India.
6. Dr. M. Rammohan Rao - Former Chairman, AMDISA SAQS Accreditation Awarding Committee; Former Dean, Professor Emeritus, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad & Former Director, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India.
7. Dr. Rajan Saxena - Former Member, AMDISA Executive Board; Former Vice Chancellor, NMIMS (Deemed University), Mumbai & Former Director - IIM Indore and S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, India.
8. Prof. G. Raghuram - Former Member, AMDISA Executive Board & Former Director, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India.
9. Dr. Vishal Talwar - Director, Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad, India.
10. Dr. Christophe Terrasse - Director, International Projects, EFMD Global, Brussels, Belgium.
11. Mr. C. Ramakrishna - Executive Director, AMDISA.

Day-1

Dinner