Alan Saidi is the Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of A.C.E.I. Since the inception of A.C.E.I. Alan Saidi has been involved in the on-going development and enhancement of ACEI’s electronic database on world education systems and credential equivalencies. Holding an Engineering Degree in Electronics Engineering with prior experience in both academe and business, Alan Saidi’s automation of ACEI’s more than fifteen years of evaluations provides ACEI’s team of evaluators with immediate and efficient access to information promoting consistency and accuracy in educational equivalency reporting. Alan Saidi has regularly led training workshops and presented on foreign educational systems and the recognition of international educational credentials at various professional conferences.

Since 1997 Ms. Cotter has provided credential evaluations for individuals, law firms, and employers representing clients from over 140 countries seeking nonimmigrant business-related visas issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The credentials represent secondary school to post-doctoral levels of education and areas of specialization such as engineering, law, and medicine. The CIS, U.S. and State of Georgia Departments of Labor, and institutions of higher education accept her evaluations as authoritative. Ms. Cotter is currently President and CEO of Foreign Credential Evaluations (FCE), Inc. Ms. Cotter had nine years of corporate experience and eight years of teaching and administrative experience in curriculum development at the post-secondary level prior to joining FCE. She regularly attends state, regional, and national conferences dealing with foreign admissions and credentials. She presents at both GAIE (Georgia Association of International Educators) and NAFSA: Association of International Educators conferences and at the NAFSA Summer Admissions Institute. She has been a member of NAFSA and of GAIE since 1999, and was a member of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers from 1999 to 2009. Ms. Cotter holds an undergraduate degree in German from Wake Forest University (B.A. 1974), an MBA from Georgia State University (1983), and has pursued graduate studies in German at the University of North Dakota.

David A. Robinson, Ph.D. is President of the Association of International Credential Evaluators.

From 1963-1966, Dr. Robinson served as President of American Studies Press in Lima Peru. From 1967-1973 he was Assistant Dean of Admissions for International Students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA where he developed and implemented the Admissions Policy Manual for International Students. From 1973-1990, Dr. Robinson was the Executive Vice-President at ELS Language Centers, USA.

David A. Robinson holds the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Master of Arts in Anthropology from Stanford University and the Doctor of Philosophy in Latin American Studies from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Robinson has presented topics on international student admissions at professional conferences. He was appointed as Administrative Director on the 1977 Latin American workshop project sponsored by the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA) and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO)

Dr. Deborah Lisano has been involved in International Education since 1987. From 1987 to 1992, she served as a Graduate Assistant in the Graduate School at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, where she assisted with the calculation of International and domestic grade point averages, and foreign credential evaluation processes. From 1992 to 1999, she served as Foreign Credential Evaluator and International Admissions Counselor, and from 1999 to 2003, as Associate Director of Admissions for the Graduate School at the University of Georgia where she was responsible for foreign credential evaluation and the admission of the International graduate students. Dr. Lisano has been a member of the NAFSA: Association of International Educators from 1992 to present, as well as a Member of NAFSA: AIE Region VII, the Georgia Association of International Educators, and the Alabama Association of International Educators. She served as the Region VII ADSEC representative from 2002 to 2005. She served as a Member of the NAFSA: AIE Trainer Corps and Advanced Trainer Corps, and has made professional presentations on International Credential Evaluation and International Admissions at many State and Regional conferences. Dr. Lisano has been Executive Vice President of Lisano International since 2003.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

President, Globe Language Services, Inc., International Education Evaluation Division, New York, NY 1986- present (responsible for 180,000+ international educational credential evaluations, including work experience/professional opinion analyses);
EDGE Report Author, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), Wash., D.C., 2006 to present: Chile and Russia;
Assistant/Associate Professor -- 22 years;
International Admissions, Oklahoma State University -- five years;
Organization of U.S. Contingent of Joint Russian/U.S. Commission on the Mutual Recognition of Education.

EDUCATION:

B.A., Spanish/Russian/Education, Oklahoma University, 1963;
M.A.T., Russian/Education, Indiana University, 1967;
Ed.D., Russian/Spanish/Higher Education, Oklahoma State University, 1977;
Moscow State University, summer 1969, U.S./U.S.S.R. Cultural Exchange; Indiana University Slavic Workshop, summer 1967;
Mexico City College, summer 1962.

From 1981 to the present, Mr. Clegg has been a consultant for applicants, law firms and employers representing clients seeking nonimmigrant business-related visas issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The CIS, U.S. and State of Georgia Departments of Labor, State of Georgia Department of Education, and institutions of higher education accept his evaluations as authoritative. Mr. Clegg currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Foreign Credential Evaluations (FCE), Inc.

Mr. Clegg is a frequent leader of workshops, panel discussions, and programs on foreign admissions and credentials evaluation for state, regional, and national groups. He regularly attends state, regional and national conferences dealing with foreign admissions and credentials.

Mr. Clegg holds degrees from Mercer University (B.A. 1949) and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (B.D. 1954, Th.M. 1955). He also pursued an advanced degree at Duke University.

Jasmin S. Kuehnert is the founder, President and CEO of Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc. (ACEI), incorporated in the State of California since 1994. She was the former Executive Director of the International Education Research Foundation, Inc. Jasmin S. Kuehnert is recognized as an authority on world education systems and is actively engaged in international educational and exchange. She has authored the Country Guide Series Reports on Senegal (2000) and Cameroon and co-authored the 1998 book on the system of education of Hong Kong. She has contributed to PIER Reports on the systems of education of Central America (1987), Canada (1987), and the United Kingdom (1990). Jasmin S. Kuehnert served as Chair of the Admission-Section (ADSEC) Committee of NAFSA (National Association of Foreign Student Advisors: Association of International Educators) from 1999 to 2001, as Chair of NAFSA’s Region XII Southern District committee from 1995 to 1999, and served on AACRAO’s Publication and Reviews Committee from 1990-1993. She has provided training and made frequent presentations on foreign educational systems and the recognition of international credentials at conferences and symposiums in the United States and abroad. She is frequently called on by US government, academic institutions, state licensing boards, private enterprise as well as institutions and educational ministries abroad for assistance with

Professional Experience

September 1989 to Present: Associate Director of International Educational Evaluation – International Evaluation Services
 • Review and Assess all international educational evaluation requests.
 • Verify accreditation of all international educational institutions.
 • Review all transfer credit educational evaluations and determine their
    US equivalency in terms of semester credits hours at the undergraduate
    and graduate level.
 • Liaison and Communication director with client, educational institutions,
    private employers, and government and state agencies.

October 1984 to June 1989 Deputy Director of Applications Processing University Application Processing Center (UAPC), City University of New York - CUNY (17 campuses)
 • Supervised staff of fourteen who processed and placed approximately
    45,000 transfers, international, and freshman students annually.
 • Liaison person at UAPC for college admissions officers regarding
    inquiries and problem solving for transfer, international, and freshman
    students.
 • Instrumental in the creation of the computerized correspondence system
    and personally involved in maintaining the integrity of the electronic filing
    system.

Under the guidance of our founder, Dr. John Sheety, AERC’s team of educational experts couple their talents with a strong understanding of the U.S. educational system to assist individuals in their pursuit of higher education or career advancement. In addition to having more than 35 years of experience in foreign credential evaluation, Dr. Sheety possesses a doctorate in Education from Claremont Graduate University and is licensed as a marriage, family and child counselor. Given his tenure within this field, he is a frequent guest lecturer at several educational institutions within the state as well as serving as a consultant for various foreign educational ministries. Most recently he is credited with assembling one of the first instructional manuals aimed at assisting registrars in determining proper placement for Central and Latin American students with a high school education from their respective countries.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AERC’s associate director, Mrs. Martha Alvarez, is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the evaluation and translation service. With more than two decades of experience in the academic field as well as a firsthand knowledge of numerous languages and foreign educational systems, Mrs. Alvarez is a unique position to oversee the activities our AERC’s team of senior education analysts and international panel of recognized translators. She also enjoys her role as senior client liaison helping candidates gain a deeper understanding of their educational status.

Dr. Mike Lisano has been heavily involved in International Education since 1985. From 1985-1998 he served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Auburn University, AL, where he was responsible for all International and domestic student admissions and credential evaluation processes. He has been a member of the NAFSA: Association of International Educators from 1985–to present, as well as a Member of NAFSA: AIE Region VII, Alabama Association of International Educators, and Georgia Association of International Educators. Dr. Lisano was a Member of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) from 1985-1998 and the European Association of International Educators from 2000-2008. He served as a Member of the Milwaukee Symposium (1996) as well as a Member of the National Council for the Evaluation of Foreign Educational Credentials from 1996-99. He served as a Member of the NAFSA: AIE Trainer Corps and Advanced Trainer Corps, and has made many professional presentations on International Credential Evaluation and International Admissions at many State and Regional conferences. Dr. Lisano has been President of Lisano International since 1993.

Nora Saidi is the Executive Director of A.C.E.I. since 2006. She served as Director of University Placement at ELS Language Center (USA) from 1982 to 2006. She was the founder and President of EDWAM Services in Tehran, Iran (1975-1980) and Director of AFME/AMIDEAST (1963-1975) in Tehran. With business degrees from Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Nora Saidi has over four decades of experience in international education, international student counseling and placement, and has worked closely with U.S. admissions officers and international student advisors in their efforts to effectively recruit and admit foreign student candidates to their institutions.

Master of Arts, Spanish Linguistics
Bachelor of Arts, Honors in English Linguistics

 • SDR Educational Consultants, Inc.: Foreign Educational Evaluations and
    Babel Translations Owner, Translations and Evaluations of foreign and
    domestic educational documentation; since 1999
 • Rice University, International Student Advisor 1997-1999
 • SpanTran Educational Services, Co-Owner, President, 1980-1997
 • University of Houston Downtown College, Teacher of Spanish and
    English as a Second Language; Administrator-Teacher in ESL Program;
    Director of International Students, 1977-1983
 • University of Houston Central Campus, Teaching Fellow (Graduate
    Student); Lecturer, Department of Spanish, 1975-1977
 • Ministry of Education and Ministry of Defense, Venezuela, Teacher of
    English as a Second Language and Administrator;
    Chairperson of English Department, 1964-1972
 • United States Peace Corps, Venezuela, 1962-1963

Native Language: English
Coordinate Bilingual in Spanish; Translation ability in all Romance and Germanic languages (into English).