Ronny HEINTZE is the Deputy Director for International Development at AQAS, the largest German accreditation agency. In his 12 years of service, coordinated more then 150 accreditation procedures in and outside of Germany with a special focus on Joint Programmes. His international experiences cover projects across Europe, the ASEAN region, GCC states and South America. He served as an expert in different projects of the European Union. He is a Board Member of the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA) where he currently chairs the Certification Group responsible for excellency in Internationalization. Ronny is also a member in the Boards of HCERES (France) and an international consultant to YÖKAK (Turkey). For ENQA he reviewed numerous agencies on their alignment with the ESG and serves for a second term in ENQAs Agency Review Committee assuring the quality of all reviews coordinated by ENQA. He currently teaches about the United Nations at the University of Trier. Before joining the Quality Assurance community, he held executive positions at NMUN in New York. He holds a M.A. degree of the University of Bonn in Political Science, Psychology and Media Science.