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Professor Ed Byrne was president and vice-chancellor of Monash University from 2009-14 before taking his up his current role at King’s College London. He is also chairman of the London-based academic health science centre, King’s Health Partners, as well as being a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and the American Association of Neurology.

Professor Byrne is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Kate Eichhorn is director of the cultural studies and media studies programmes at The New School, a university in New York City. For more than two decades, she has researched the impact of new media technologies on youth cultures, subcultures and social movements. Her most recent book, The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media, published by Harvard University Press in 2019, examines the impact of social media platforms on identity development, reputation management and memory.

Kate Eichhorn is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Gül İnanç is an award-winning lecturer at Nanyang Technological University and is co-director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at the University of Auckland. Her areas of expertise include modern diplomatic history of West Asia and history education for K-12. Her recent published work focuses on global cultural heritage education for conflict resolution and access to higher education for refugees. She has taught at Bogazici University, Eastern Mediterranean University, University of Cyprus and National University of Singapore. She is the founder of Opening Universities for Refugees, an initiative to build knowledge networks and consortia to offer higher education to communities in need in Southeast Asia

Professor İnanç is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Having immigrated to Israel four years ago from bonny Scotland, Christian Jowers now works closely with the president, provost, and faculty of IDC Herzliya to increase the scope and elevate the level of activity across all areas of internationalisation. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in Chinese (Hons) and has 11 years of experience in global higher education, having co-developed a plethora of projects and academic initiatives around the world.

Christian Jowers is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Sigbritt Karlsson is president of KTH and professor of polymer technology targeting the polymeric materials technical environment. An MSc in chemical engineering and a PhD in polymer technology at KTH were followed by a variety of academic posts including director of studies (1996-2004) and vice-dean of faculty with responsibility for undergraduate studies at the School of Chemical Science. From 2008 to 2010, she was vice-dean responsible for strategic education issues. She was president of the University of Skövde from 2010 to 2016.

Professor Karlsson is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Lily Kong is the fifth president of Singapore Management University (SMU) and the first Singaporean to lead the 19-year-old institution. She is also Lee Kong Chian chair professor of social sciences. Professor Kong has previously served as provost of SMU, vice-provost and vice-president of the National University of Singapore, and executive vice-president (academic) of Yale-NUS College.
She is widely known for her research on religion, cultural policy and creative economy, urban heritage and conservation, and national identity. She has received five international fellowship awards and has also won the Association of American Geographers’ Robert Stoddard Award for Distinguished Service.

Professor Kong is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Lin is the Compton Visiting Professor in world politics at the University of Virginia. She has also taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University and National Chengchi University. Previously a partner at Goldman Sachs, she spearheaded the firm’s investments in technology start-ups including Alibaba and SMIC. She currently serves on the boards of Goldman Sachs Asia Bank and Langham Hospitality Investments. She earned a PhD from the University of Hong Kong and her AB from Harvard College.

Syaru Shirley Lin is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Before taking on his current role, Professor Max Lu held academic and leadership positions at the University of Queensland from 1994 to 2016, most recently as provost and senior vice-president. He has been appointed to the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, and serves on several boards including UK Research and Innovation, and Universities UK. He founded the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials and has twice been the recipient of the Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship.

Professor Lu is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Henrik C. Wegener, in his current role since 2017, is an expert on food safety, zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance and emerging infectious diseases. He has served as adviser to national and international authorities and governments (including as chair of the High-Level Group of the EC Scientific Advice Mechanism), international organisations and private companies, and universities and research foundations. He has also served, and is presently serving, on several national and international committees and boards on food safety, veterinary public health and research policy. In addition, he is a former pro-rector at the Technical University of Denmark.

Henrik C. Wegener is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Qiu Yong was appointed president of Tsinghua University in 2015 following a long career at the university. He previously served as vice-chairman of the university committee of academic affairs and deputy dean of the School of Sciences (2002-2009), and vice-president (2009-2015). He has also been a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2013 and professor of chemistry since 2000. He is a specialist in organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) and has been devoted to the fundamental research and technology transfer of OLEDs.

Professor Yong is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Prior to his current role as vice-chancellor of Lahore University of Management Sciences, Dr Arshad Ahmad served as vice-provost of teaching and learning, and director of the MacPherson Institute at McMaster University. He is also chair of teaching and learning and former president of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Dr Ahmad completed his MBA and subsequent PhD in psychology at McGill University, won a lifetime 3M National Teaching Fellowship in 1992 and was a professor of finance at Concordia and McMaster Universities. His research interests are in student evaluations of teaching, approaches to teaching, teaching philosophies and student partnerships.

Dr Arshad is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Daniel Akinbosede is a PhD researcher at the University of Sussex, studying a protein that allows Neisseria bacteria to highjack iron from human blood as a nutrient source. He is a keen advocate for anti-racism in STEM teaching and research as well as the academy in general. In 2019, he was a co-founder of the Sussex Race Equity Advocate programme, which is designed to give voice and power to ethnic minority students as they fight to address academia’s many racial inequalities.

Mr Akinbosede is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Dr Hassan Al-Derham is president of Qatar University (QU). In his previous role as vice-president of research, he guided QU to its current position as leader of research excellence in the Gulf Cooperation Council region. He developed and implemented the organisation’s research policies and procedures, and initiated several research centres. He plays a major role in advancing research activity at both university and national levels.

Dr Al-Derham is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Dr Amit Chakma, an expert in petroleum research and energy management, moved to The University of Western Australia in 2020. Prior to this, he served as president and vice-chancellor of Western University (2009-2019), and provost vice-president (academic) of the University of Waterloo. Dr Chakma is also a professor of chemical engineering, chair of the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Canada.

Professor Chakma is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Shiyi Chen joined SUSTech in 2015 from Peking University where he had been vice-president of research, dean of the Graduate School and dean of the College of Engineering. Previous roles included chair of the department of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University and research group leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Science in 2013 and a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries in 2018.

Professor Chen is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Kelly Chibale is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cape Town where he is also the Neville Isdell chair in African-centric drug discovery and development. He is also a member of the university’s Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine, a tier 1 South Africa research chair in drug discovery, founding director of the South African Medical Research Council Drug Discovery & Development Research Unit, and founder and director of the UCT Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D).

Professor Chibale is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Dr Steven Currall was named seventh president of the University of South Florida in 2019. He brings three decades of experience as a faculty member and administrator at research universities, both public and private, in the United States and abroad. Dr Currall earned a master’s degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in organisational behaviour from Cornell University. He was lead author of a book on university-business-government collaboration, Organized Innovation: A Blueprint for Renewing America's Prosperity. At USF, he is a tenured professor of information systems and decision sciences in the Muma College of Business.

Dr Currall is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Akiko Morozumi is associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Her research areas include higher education policy, university leadership and management. She has been conducting empirical studies of Japanese university management and she is involved in the training of university management and senior management personnel in graduate education.

Professor Morozumi is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Sung-chul Shin, a nanoscience scholar, first joined the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) faculty in 1989. From the early 1990s, he held key administrative positions including dean of planning, dean of the international office and vice-dean of student affairs. He also served as vice-president in 2004-06. Prior to being selected in 2017 as the 16th president of KAIST, his alma mater, he led the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology for six years.

Professor Shin is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Nic Smith was appointed provost of Queensland University of Technology in 2020, having previously been dean of engineering at the University of Auckland since 2013. Prior to that, Professor Smith was head of biomedical engineering at King’s College London and professor of computational physiology at the University of Oxford. At the University of Auckland, Professor Smith led a computational modelling group which was a central contributor to the European based Virtual Physiological Human Project. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal publications and 300 conference publications. He is the lead author on several patent applications filed with the United States and European Patent Offices, which outline intellectual property covering the development of anatomically based physiological models and specific applications.

Professor Smith is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Before taking on the mantle of president, Professor Vahan Agopyan – a professor of materials and components for construction – fulfilled a variety of roles. He has been University Scholars Programme provost of graduate studies, dean of the Polytechnic School, chief executive officer of the Institute for Technological Research of São Paulo State, and vice-president of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction. Among his numerous awards are Commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) and Distinguished Engineer of the Year (Institute of Engineering).

Professor Agopyan is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Dr Yusuf Al-Turki has been vice-president of postgraduate studies and research at King Abdulaziz (KAU) University since 2017. In 1985, Dr Al-Turki was awarded a doctorate in electrical power engineering from the University of Manchester. He became associate professor at KAU in 1991, and then professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 1999 where he worked until appointed to his present position.

Dr Al-Turki is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Dina El Maoula is president of the Islamic University of Lebanon and the first female president of the Association of Arab Universities, an association of more than 360 universities. She is also president of the Center for Academic Research and Cooperation, a member of the Joint Committee, and professor at the Research and Strategic Studies Center in the Lebanese Armed Forces. Professor El Maoula is a member of the Higher Education Council and the Supreme Committee for Programs and Curricula of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Lebanon. She holds a PhD in law from the University of Montpelier 1 (2002), and was granted the Academic Palms Award from the French government (2016).

Professor El Maoula is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Ian Jacobs has led UNSW Sydney since 2015 and been chair of the Group of Eight universities since 2018. Prior to this, he was vice-president of the University of Manchester for four years. For 30 years, he has led a research team working on the early detection and risk prediction of cancer with a focus on screening for ovarian cancer. Among other roles, he is an honorary senior principal research fellow of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and board member of Research Australia.

Professor Jacobs is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

A Japanese citizen, Shigeo Katsu is the founding president of 10-year old Nazarbayev University. He also serves as chairman of two boards, one a NU secondary school system, and another a NU-affiliated financial services company. Prior to coming to Kazakhstan, he worked for over 30 years at the World Bank with assignments in Africa, East Asia, Europe, and Central Asia. He retired in 2009 as regional vice-president. He continues to be active in international development issues.

Professor Way Kuo is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Russian Academy of Engineering. He is renowned for his work in design for reliability of electronics systems and energy. He was on the senior management team of Oak Ridge National Lab and served as dean of engineering at the University of Tennessee before taking on his current role in 2008. His book, Soulware: The American Way in China’s Higher Education, is jointly published by Wiley-Scrivener (2019).

Professor Kuo is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Before joining the University of Pretoria in 2019, Professor Tawana Kupe was vice-principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, where he also served as deputy vice-chancellor of advancement, human resources and transformation, and deputy vice-chancellor of finance and operations in 2013-14. He was executive dean of the Wits Faculty of Humanities in 2007-12, after serving as head of Wits School of Literature and Language Studies and founding head of the media studies department. He completed his tertiary studies in Zimbabwe and Norway.

Professor Kupe is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Jin-Guang Teng assumed office as president of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019. Prior to his current appointment, he was vice-president and dean of the Graduate School at Southern University of Science and Technology. Professor Teng has conducted extensive research in the field of structural engineering. He was elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015, and fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2013.

Professor Teng is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Professor Paul Wellings joined Wollongong in 2012 from Lancaster University where he was vice-chancellor for nine years. He started his career in the UK as an NERC research fellow and moved to Australia as a research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, becoming deputy chief executive in 1999. In 2006, he was appointed a board member of, and chaired committees at, both Universities UK and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Professor Wellings is speaking in our series of #NewDawnHE videos. To find out more please visit the Resource hub here.

Billy Wong works closely with some of the top universities in the world to help them identify national and global competitors, understand their relative strengths and weaknesses, and formulate strategies that best suit the higher education needs of their countries. He studied in France and Hong Kong, and is involved with DataKind UK, which promotes the use of data science techniques in the charity sector.

Phil Baty is a leading international authority on university performance and strategy, with more than 22 years of experience in global higher education, including a decade as editor of the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings and its derivative analyses. He is an award-winning journalist, a sought-after speaker and commentator, and the creator of the THE World Academic Summits.

Joyce Chee uses her experience of studying and working in China in her current role as regional director of Mainland China for Times Higher Education. She oversees the development of universities and forges strategic partnerships, connecting universities with experts in data-driven performance analysis, reputation management and areas essential to the growth of a university. Prior to this, she gained entrepreneurial experience in strategic planning, marketing and operations before an acquisition exit.

Ritin Malhotra is a regional director for South Asia at Times Higher Education specialising in branding and internationalisation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Singapore Management University and a certificate programme in marketing from University of California, Berkeley. He works with the leading higher education institutes and policymakers across South Asia to solve various key issues including improving quality of higher education, internationalisation, branding and recognition in the THE World University Rankings.

Dr Pankaj Mittal, secretary-general of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), is the second woman to hold this position in the association’s 95 years of existence and has served the higher education sector at senior positions for over 30 years. Dr Mittal has also served two terms as vice-chancellor of Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya, Haryana, the first rural women university of North India.
She has travelled around North and South America, Europe and Asia to present academic papers in international conferences, and has published a number of papers, articles and reports on issues relating to higher education and women empowerment in national and international journals.

Professor Anil Sahasrabudhe has held several important academic, research and administrative positions at institutions across India, and has also served as director of the College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) since 2006. He has taken up several new initiatives for academic, curricular and co-curricular activities, entrepreneurship, research, and good governance.
Professor Sahasrabudhe has been bestowed with several awards including Maha Intrapreneur Award from Praj Industries in 2011, Lifetime Achievement Award from MIT World Peace University in 2019, and Mahatma Gandhi Leadership Award from Indian Achievers Forum in 2019.

Prof. D.P. Singh is chairman of the University Grants Commission, the apex higher education regulatory body in India. Prof. Singh has held academic and leadership positions in Indian higher education in a career spanning close to four decades. Prior to this, he was vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University and Devi Ahilya University, and was director of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. Prof. Singh has been instrumental in developing a conducive learning environment, enhancing academic and administrative efficiency, fostering excellence in research, encouraging global facilitation of higher education, and promoting quality and value-based higher education in India.

Phil Baty is a leading international authority on university performance and strategy, with more than 22 years of experience in global higher education, including a decade as editor of the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings and its derivative analyses. He is an award-winning journalist, a sought-after speaker and commentator, and the creator of the THE World Academic Summits.

Ellie Bothwell is rankings editor and international reporter at THE. She oversees editorial content for THE’s global series of rankings, including the flagship World University Rankings, and reports on all areas of internationalisation, including student and staff mobility, research and institutional partnerships, and branch campuses.

Professor Fujii is in charge of finance and external relations at the University of Tokyo. He served as associate professor in the university’s Institute of Industrial Science (IIS). He worked at the Riken Institute for four years before returning to IIS where he was promoted to full professor in 2007 and served as director-general (2015-18). He also served as an adviser to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2005-07) and was co-director of LIMMS-CNRS/IIS (2007-14), a joint research laboratory between CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) and IIS.

Professor Phakeng, a National Research Foundation B1 rated scientist, took on the role of vice-chancellor at the University of Cape Town in 2018, having previously been the deputy vice-chancellor for research and internationalisation. She joined UCT from the University of South Africa where she was vice-principal of research and innovation (2011-16) and, before that, dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology. She is an internationally renowned educator and mathematics education researcher, and has won numerous awards for her research and community work.

Dr Spence has been in his current role since 2008. Under his leadership, the University of Sydney has forged a distinctive strategy focused on the transformation of undergraduate education, promoting interdisciplinary research, and strengthening the culture around its core values. Dr Spence was instrumental in leading the university’s A$1 billion “Inspired” philanthropic campaign. In 2017, he was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia. Before joining the University of Sydney, he spent 20 years at the University of Oxford and latterly headed the Faculty of Law and the Social Sciences Division.

Joyce Msuya was appointed deputy executive director of UN Environment Programme in 2018 by UN secretary-general António Guterres. Ms Msuya served as acting executive director in 2018-2019, overseeing UN Environment’s portfolio in 33 countries and administering multilateral agreements on critical environmental issues.

A microbiologist from Tanzania, Ms Msuya began her career at the World Bank as a public health specialist in 1998 and has worked across the World Bank Group in Africa, Asia and Latin America in both the public and private sectors. With over 20 years of experience in international development, strategy, knowledge management and partnerships, Ms Msuya has served as advisor to the World Bank, as the inaugural World Bank special representative, and as head of the World Bank Group Office.

Michael Lubacz leads THE’s global brand and strategic solutions team. He works closely with institutions to help raise their international profiles, build visibility around their research excellence, and create identities that differentiate their institutions in what is a competitive global market.

Phil Baty is a leading international authority on university performance and strategy, with more than 22 years of experience in global higher education, including a decade as editor of the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings and its derivative analyses. He is an award-winning journalist, a sought-after speaker and commentator, and the creator of the THE World Academic Summits.

M'hamed el Aisati has held his current position in the research management unit of Elsevier since 2012. He leads a team that looks after content and analytical services, supporting large research performance evaluation programmes and rankings. After joining the company in 1998, he contributed to the realisation of its first digital journals platform, which preceded ScienceDirect, and in 2004 he helped launch Scopus. El Aisati was granted a master’s in computer sciences from the University of Amsterdam. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds two patents.

Phil Baty is a leading international authority on university performance and strategy, with more than 22 years of experience in global higher education, including a decade as editor of the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings and its derivative analyses. He is an award-winning journalist, a sought-after speaker and commentator, and the creator of the THE World Academic Summits.

Professor McCahan fulfils two roles at the University of Toronto – vice-provost for innovations in undergraduate education and vice-provost for academic programmes. She leads a set of IT and data initiatives at the University of Toronto aimed at improving learning experiences and outcomes for faculty and students. Prior to her current roles, she was vice-dean, undergraduate in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, where she led the redesign of the undergraduate curriculum of the mechanical and industrial engineering programmes.

Richard Miles is vice-provost of academic performance and pro vice-chancellor of education, enterprise and engagement at the University of Sydney. Professor Richard Miles has led the successful development of experiential project units, and is overseeing the creation of a sustainable innovation education eco-system at the university. In his role as vice-provost, Professor Miles is involved in the development of university-wide career development and performance management processes for academic staff. He is also professor of roman history and archaeology and has held research and teaching appointments at the universities of Cambridge, Wisconsin (Madison) and Paris I et X.

Clay Shirky is vice-provost for educational technologies at New York University (NYU). A faculty member since 2001, he holds appointments in NYU’s journalism department and the interactive telecommunications program. Professor Shirky taught in the inaugural years of NYU Shanghai, where he helped develop that school’s first online courses. He is the author of several books about social media, including Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus.

As well as vice-president and provost, Professor Yang is professor of business administration in management science at Tsinghua, his alma mater. His teaching methods at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management have won him awards such as Outstanding Young Faculty Award and Best Teaching Award. He is vice-chairman of the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools, secretary-general of the China National Engineering Education Supervisory Committee and secretary-general of the China National MBA Education Supervisory Committee.

Dr Karlsson joined Elsevier in 2012, as vice-president for strategic alliances and global academic relations, to support the company’s relationships with key stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region. Before that, he was counsellor for science and innovation at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo. He also previously served as a professor of quantum photonics at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Before Dr Candemir took on her current role within Elsevier’s Research Management division, she was a customer consultant for Turkey, Middle East, Central Asia and Iran. Her expertise is in combined quantitative/qualitative analysis and reporting for academic clients and government. She has experience in analysing large amount of publication, citation, macroeconomic and patent data from various sources, and in conducting bibliometric research performance assessments at different levels. Prior to joining Elsevier, she was a science and innovation officer at the British Consulate General Istanbul – as part of the UK Foreign Office – building bilateral relations in research and innovation.

Warwick Dawson is the director of knowledge exchange in the Division of Enterprise at UNSW Sydney. He has more than 20 years of experience in strategic leadership roles in the public and private sectors. In addition to various senior positions in research-intensive universities, he has held legal and commercial roles in the engineering, construction and IT sectors supporting a wide range of clients ranging from multinationals to SMEs. His key achievements include building effective innovation partnerships enabling the successful execution of high-impact projects, and delivery of effective customer-focused services.

Mary Juhas is associate vice-president of the office of research at Ohio State University. She focuses on catalysing innovation, creativity, and development of interdisciplinary women-led research teams. As director of Ohio State ADVANCE, Juhas oversees REACH for Commercialization™, an innovation ecosystem for women faculty, staff and postdoctoral inventors.

Vidya Yeravdekar is pro chancellor of Symbiosis International University and principal director of Symbiosis Society. She holds a postgraduate degree in medicine, a degree in law and PhD in internationalisation of higher education in India. She has been instrumental in bringing in innovative approaches to promote internationalisation of higher education in India.
Dr Yeravdekar has been able to influence policy regulations for promoting and bringing in innovative approaches to higher education in India through her appointments on various governmental bodies.

Joanna Newman joined the Association of Commonwealth Universities in April 2017 and is also a senior research fellow in the history faculty of King’s College London. Before taking up her current role, she served as vice-principal (international) of King’s College London, director of the UK Higher Education International Unit (now Universities UK International) and head of higher education at the British Library. In 2014, Dr Newman was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her work promoting British higher education internationally.

A science policy pacesetter with more than 33 years of experience, Dr Anantha Duraiappah has been leading the New Delhi-based UNESCO MGIEP since its inauguration in 2014. He plays a key role in positioning it as a leading research institute in education for peace, sustainable development, and global citizenship.

Aditya Malkani has responsibility for engagement with the ACU’s membership in the region, and the development of relationships with new members and partners. The ACU has more than 200 member institutions in Asia, including some of the region’s most influential universities. Previously, Malkani was India Country Head for King’s College London, where he focused on developing the university’s partnerships in India, including the development of King’s India Summer Schools. Malkani has been an education sector professional for over a decade and speaks regularly on issues relating to higher education and international collaboration at forums across the region.

Vukosi Marivate works on developing machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to extract insights from data. A large part of his work over the last few years has been in the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing (due to the abundance of text data and need to extract insights). As part of his vision for the ABSA data science chair, Marivate is interested in data science for social impact, using local challenges as a springboard for research. He has worked on projects in science, energy, public safety and utilities. Marivate is an organiser of the Deep Learning Indaba, the largest machine learning/artificial intelligence workshop on the African continent, aiming to strengthen African machine learning. He is passionate about developing young talent, supervising MSc and PhD students and mentoring budding data scientists.

Denise Whitelock is a professor of technology-enhanced learning and has more than 25 years of experience in artificial intelligence for designing, researching, and evaluating online and computer-based learning in higher education. She recently led the UK’s contribution to the Adaptive Trust e-Assessment System for Learning (TeSLA) project. The overall objective of this was to define and develop an e-assessment system, which ensures learners authentication and authorship in online and blended learning environments while avoiding the time and physical space limitations imposed by a face-to-face examination. Professor Whitelock is currently the editor of Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance & e-Learning. Her work has received international recognition through holding visiting chairs at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the British University in Dubai.

Mark Tweddle is a senior higher education consultant within the THE Consultancy Services team. Tweddle works with universities and governments around the world, providing data-driven insights to help them make informed decisions and reach strategic goals. Drawing on his prior experience in social research focusing on UK skills and education policy, Tweddle is developing the consultancy team’s capacity to offer bespoke primary research solutions to complement the wealth of data held by THE.

Chris Havergal has been news editor since February 2017. Previously he was a reporter who covered areas including teaching and learning, access, and internationalisation. Havergal started his career as local government correspondent at the Cambridge News and holds a BA in history and an MA in medieval studies from the University of York.

Professor Anyang Agbor was elected to her current role in 2017. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the field of academia and is a professor of African and Commonwealth literature in the department of English, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. She has written a number of academic books and publications to contribute to scholarship. Previously, she was deputy vice-chancellor in charge of research, cooperation and relations with the business world at the University of Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon. Presently, she provides guidance and vision to the HRST mandate – education, science and technology, youth and human resources.

Vijayakumar (“Kumar”) Bhagavatula joined CMU-Africa in Kigali, Rwanda, in January 2018. Prior to that, he was a faculty member and held various academic administrative roles at CMU in Pittsburgh, US. Along with colleagues and students, Professor Bhagavatula has published more than 600 research papers in the areas of computer vision and pattern recognition. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, International Society for Optical Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Association for Pattern Recognition, National Academy of Inventors and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

A thoughtful leader and an advocate for the world’s most vulnerable, Reeta Roy has worked tirelessly to build a foundation that is collaborative and known for its lasting impact. During Roy’s tenure, Mastercard Foundation has committed US$2.6 billion to education, skills training and financial inclusion programmes, primarily in Africa. Those programmes have reached 38 million people living in poverty, so they can improve their lives and the circumstances of their families and communities. A strong believer in listening, Roy can often be found in the field, working directly with the people the foundation’s programs serve. Roy’s childhood growing up in Malaysia helped her to develop her capacity to listen and the empathy with which she approaches the foundation’s work. Roy was a beneficiary of scholarships that allowed her to complete her education and mentors continue to support her growth as a leader.

Fred Swaniker is passionate about Africa and believes that the missing ingredient on the continent is good leadership. He has co-founded three organisations that aim to catalyse a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders: African Leadership Academy, African Leadership Network, and African Leadership University. A passionate entrepreneur, Swankier also served as founder and CEO of Terra Education to provide leadership training across Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Prior to his work in education, Swaniker co-founded Synexa Life Sciences, a biotechnology company with operations in Cape Town, Berlin, London, and Dublin.
Swaniker has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and was listed by Forbes Magazine among the top ten young ‘power men’ in Africa.

Holly Falk-Krzesinski is vice-president of research intelligence on the Global Strategic Networks team at Elsevier, where she builds and maintains long-term relationships with research institutions and funders. Dr Falk-Krzesinski focuses on how insights from data and analytics guide strategic planning for research institutions, funders, and science policy organisations. Actively involved in promoting women leaders in STEM, Dr Falk-Krzesinski is co-chair of the Gender Working Group at Elsevier and co-author on Elsevier’s two global gender reports. She previously served as editor-in-chief of the magazine of the Association for Women in Science.
Prior to joining Elsevier, Dr Falk-Krzesinski was a faculty member and administrator at Northwestern University. There, she launched the Chicago Collaboration for Women in STEM and the Navigating the Professoriate and Beyond Tenure programmes in support of career advancement for women faculty members in STEM fields.

Sarah Hawkes is a medical doctor with a degree in sociology and a PhD in epidemiology. She is a professor of global public health at UCL Institute of Education where she leads a research theme analysing the use of research evidence in policy processes, particularly in relation to gender and health equity. Professor Hawkes is director of the Centre for Gender and Global Health and co-director and co-founder of Global Health 50/50 which advances action and accountability for gender equality in global health.

Elizabeth Pollitzer trained originally in biophysics and obtained a PhD in information science from King’s College London. She spent more than 20 years as researcher and lecturer in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. Ms Pollitzer is director of Portia, a not-for-profit organisation she co-founded in 2001 with several women scientists and engineers at Imperial College London. The aim was to use scientific evidence to advance understanding and actions towards greater awareness of how gender issues impact on science values, knowledge, and quality of outcomes.

Louise Simpson is an expert in higher education communications and branding, leading research for many universities and government bodies in the UK, Japan and Europe. Before becoming a consultant, she was director of communications at the University of Cambridge, and a commissioning editor for Reed Elsevier.
Simpson has worked on a variety of major international marketing and reputation projects, creating tools to benchmark university reputation, brand and communications, and in 2007 created The World 100 Reputation Network, now supported by 50 World 100 universities.

Andrea Farquhar leads a team at McMaster University that is responsible for strategic reputational management, marketing and media relations, digital media communications, fundraising communications and the alumni magazine, government and community relations, and internal communications. Her early career was in media, where she was a reporter and newsreader. Farquhar has been at McMaster for the past 20 years but her first career was in broadcast media, included presenting the news on CFRB, Canada’s most listened to news station.

Alan Ferns is responsible for providing coordination, leadership, and strategic direction for a range of external relations and reputation-building activities and functions at The University of Manchester. Prior to taking up his current role in 2017, Ferns was director of communications and marketing where he managed the award-winning central communications and marketing team and provided the strategy and leadership for a wider community of communications and marketing professionals responsible for delivering communications and engagement activity to 40,000 students, 11,000 staff and 350,000 alumni.

Ovidia Lim-Rajaram oversees institutional communications at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her responsibilities include reputation management, strategic communications, branding and marketing communications, digital communications, special events and protocol, issues management as well as crisis communications for a diverse community comprising 17 schools and 27 university-level research institutes across three campuses.
She is the press secretary to the university president, and a university spokesperson. In her earlier life, Lim-Rajaram was a newspaper reporter, broadcast journalist, and lecturer in media studies.

Tania Rhodes-Taylor joined the University of Sydney in 2017 as its vice-principal of external relations. Rhodes-Taylor leads the work to improve coordination of the university's external engagement activities and develop ways of ensuring that staff and students can easily and effectively move between the university and its external partners.
Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Rhodes-Taylor was director of marketing and communications at Queen Mary University of London. She has previously worked in the corporate and government sectors in the UK, USA and Asia before moving to work for government agencies and, since 2007, within the higher education sector.

In his role, Mark Sudbury connects leaders in communications, marketing and international at global universities, helping them to build profile and navigate the developments in university reputation. Before joining The World 100 Reputation Network (W100) in 2017 he was director of communications and marketing at University College London (UCL), helping to build its reputation and establish it as a global brand. Sudbury was one of a small group of communications directors who established W100 in 2007, and became its first chair. He has presented at conferences around the world on university reputation, communications, and marketing. Previously, Sudbury worked for the UK government and the English Football Association.

Prior to joining Elsevier in 2016, Dr Thompson worked for 26 years at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, rising to the position of research director, with responsibility for the strategy and delivery of the scientific programme, and an annual budget of £800 million. She is a champion of early-career researchers, interdisciplinary research and diversity, and is a member of the Royal Society Diversity group. She is also a member of the Oxfordshire LEP Innovation Board. In January 2016, Dr Thompson was awarded an MBE for her services to research.

Bonnie developed the first phase of the Bristol & Bath Science Park which opened in 2011 and provides a supportive eco-system for knowledge exchange between entrepreneurs, academia, and other stakeholders. She worked for several decades in the advanced engineering sector for US research-led multinationals and had responsibility in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, and Asia. She is a former council member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, deputy chair of Catalyst Inc, the Northern Ireland science park and is on the advisory boards of the Engine Shed and the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol. She is chair of the EEF’s Economic Policy Committee.

Dr. Alison Lloyd joined Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) in May 2020 and is leading the Office of Institutional Research and Planning. She supports university planning, spearheads various analytics and business intelligence endeavours to foster a culture of data-informed decision-making and oversees university rankings. She also serves on several advisory boards and steering committees pertaining to international higher education. Before joining HKBU, Dr. Lloyd served for 14 years in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in various capacities including director of international affairs and director of institutional research and planning.

Susan Martinis is vice-chancellor of research and innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she provides leadership for the campus-wide interdisciplinary research institutes, promotes new research initiatives, and oversees the administrative and business processes that ensure the safe, ethical, and productive conduct of research at Illinois. Dr. Martinis, the Stephen G. Sligar professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, studies the mechanisms, evolution, and biomedical applications of protein synthesis and RNA-protein interactions. She is a successful researcher, engaged in entrepreneurial and corporate partnerships, a committed educator, and an experienced administrator.

Adrian has over 20 years of experience in market research. He has completed numerous studies on the communication of research, often in conjunction with partners, including the Lisbon Council on the Open Science Monitor, Leiden University, Times Higher Education and Sense About Science. He has presented at various conferences, including STM, ESOF, AAP and APE. Adrian’s background is in archaeology with an MSc from Leicester University. He also has a diploma in market research from the Market Research Society.

Sara Custer is digital editor at THE. She has covered global higher education as a journalist for more than five years. Before joining THE in 2017, she was editor of international education website and magazine, The PIE News.

Katherine Fleming is provost of NYU and Alexander S. Onassis professor of Hellenic culture in the Faculty of Arts and Science. From 2007-12, she was associate professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and from 2012-16 served as president of the board of directors of the University of Piraeus, Greece. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Macedonia and from Ionian University in Greece. In 2016, she was awarded honorary Greek citizenship by the Hellenic Republic. In 2019, she was nominated a Chevalier in the French Légion d’honneur, to be conferred in spring 2020.

Professor Dilly Fung became pro-director of education at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2018. She has senior leadership responsibility for student education and the wider student experience, and has introduced a number of high profile innovations including the Education for Global Impact framework which is a core part of the LSE 2030 strategy.
Education for Global Impact draws on Professor Fung’s open access monograph, A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education, which explores the qualities of research-rich education and provides a spectrum of practical approaches to programme design within and across the disciplines. Overall undergraduate student satisfaction at the LSE, as measured by the National Student Survey, has risen by more than 13% in two years.

In his current role since 2013, Professor Gertler was previously dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science for five years. An expert in the geography of innovative activity and the economies of city regions, he has advised governments in Canada, the US and Europe, as well as international agencies such as the OECD. He chairs the Working Group on Higher Education-Business Research Partnerships of the Business-Higher Education Roundtable and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2015, he was appointed to the Order of Canada.

Angela Owusu-Ansah was educated in Ghana, Spain and the US, and is provost and full professor at Ashesi University. Previously, she served as faculty chair of dissertation research and an innovation fellow at Concordia University in Montreal, and as associate dean of the School of Education at Elon University in the US. Prior to this, she served as assistant dean and associate professor at Samford University in Alabama. Her research interests include the assessment of the impact of quantitative literacy on student learning outcomes, African women higher education leaders and intercultural understanding.

Phil Baty is a leading international authority on university performance and strategy, with more than 22 years of experience in global higher education, including a decade as editor of the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings and its derivative analyses. He is an award-winning journalist, a sought-after speaker and commentator, and the creator of the THE World Academic Summits.