The QS Higher Ed Summit: Europe 2023 is an event that you can't afford to miss!

Dr Kirti Menon is the Senior Director of the Division for Teaching Excellence at the University of Johannesburg. She has served on several national task teams and her research focus is higher education with a focus on access, exclusion and redress. She is a Research Associate affiliated to the UJ Faculty of Education. She is widely published in the field of higher education, curriculum transformation, social exclusion and access. She has wide-ranging experience in the field of higher education and quality assurance. Her experience is multifaceted as she has experience both from a regulatory perspective as well as from the vantage point of a university. She has served on several national task teams for the Department of Higher Education and Training as well as more recently for the CHE.

In his role as Senior Research Analyst, Dr. Hellwig focuses on analyzing the research performance and trends for public agencies and academic institutes. Recent customers for projects include the European Commission, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, the Welsh Government, the Indian Department of Biotechnology and the Association of African Universities (AAU). Dr. Hellwig was part of the research team for She Fgures 2018 and She Figures 2021.

Prior to that role he worked as Customer Consultant Research Intelligence in Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and the UK, responsible for supporting the adoption and use of SciVal, Scopus and various analytical tools and solutions for research performance and planning. Working for more than 10 years with higher education, corporate, and governmental institutions, he has a thorough knowledge of this sector in various countries.

Dr. Hellwig holds a PhD in Chemistry from Georg August University Göttingen in Germany with subsidiary subject Communication Theory and Publicism. After that he worked for almost ten years in pharmaceutical companies before he joined Elsevier in 2008.

Afifah Darke is Deputy Editor in the QS Intelligence Unit based in Singapore. Before joining QS, she was a former digital journalist at Channel NewsAsia, where she covered daily local and regional breaking news. She was also a News Assistant at CNBC Asia, working on the flagship show Squawk Box with a global team of producers and editors. Afifah has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the National University of Singapore. She can be contacted at [email protected]

Raluca joined the QS Intelligence Unit team in 2016. Since 2018, she has been focusing on the QS Stars product and has recently stepped up in the role of product manager. She is based in Bucharest, Romania and holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Modern Languages from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi and a Masters degree from the University of Bucharest. Before joining the QS team, Raluca has worked as a consultant for an education company promoting foreign education and providing support to candidates for studying abroad.

Anton John Crace is Editor and Program Designer in the QS Intelligence Unit in Singapore. Through his role, he edits QS’ university news and rankings supplements. He has worked within international education for almost a decade including within an education provider, education agent training platform and media.

He was the Asia Pacific Editor of The PIE News, an international education media outlet, and broke stories including the decision of some universities to pay Indian agents GST and the New Zealand government’s decision to scrap a review into in-study work rights for international students. For many years he was also a familiar face on the conference circuit throughout the Asia Pacific through live tweeting – follow him on Twitter @antoncrace.

Anton was recognized as the Universities Australia Higher Education Journalist of the Year in 2019 at the National Press Club of Australia, and received the Excellence Award for Professional Commentary from the International Education Association of Australian in 2018.

Agnes Batory is a Professor of Public Policy at the Central European University in Vienna. She currently serves as Pro-Rector for Research and Faculty. She is trained in political science and international relations, and her research interests include corruption, party politics and populism, and policy implementation and compliance problems in EU governance.

Kristof Lajos specializes in the education and training of gifted and exceptionally gifted children. He is the winner of several international awards and enjoys a prestige both nationally and internationally. A former abandoned child, institutionalized in communist orphanages, the teacher aims to create a more than inclusive world in his school: full of love, compassion and empathy.

Ehab Badwi is the founder and the General Director of the Syrian Youth Assembly, a global network of young Syrians worldwide. A strong believer in the potential of youth and one of the Youth Representatives of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM).

Mr. Badwi has worked in the past seven years on youth and peacebuilding issues at the local and global level, where he served as the Regional Focal Point – the Middle East and North Africa – Humanitarian Affairs and SDG 16 Regional Focal Point (Peace & Security) for the UN Major Group for Children and Youth.

Since the beginning of his career, he has been very interested in community issues, youth issues, and youth’s fundamental role in community development. Since 2007, Ehab has joined the Scout Movement in Syria, and he believes that Scouts have the greatest credit in building his personality and interests. Also, he worked within the Red Crescent crews in Syria from the beginning of the war until 2013 in disaster management.

Mr. Badwi worked in peacebuilding with a full focus on engaging youth in peace processes and was part of the United Network of Young Peacebuilders UNOY in the European Youth Advocacy Team; he is one of the KEY Informant within the “The Missing Peace: Independent Progress Study on Youth, Peace, and Security”, He served as a youth representative at the World Humanitarian Summit at the Global Youth Consultation in Doha 2015, and the Global Consultation in Geneva and the summit in Istanbul.

From 2021-to 2022, he contributed with a group of young leaders and researchers to presenting – The We are in this Together, Operationalizing a Five-Year Strategic Action Plan. And – Implementing the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda at Country-level A Guide for Public Officials. and organizing The High-Level Global Conference on Youth-Inclusive Peace Process 19-21 January 2022.

Ehab Badwi holds a Diploma in Engineering and Degree in political science from Germany.

Erika is an Internationalization Project Manager at CTU in Prague coordinating recruitment of International degree-seeking students, on behalf of CTU she also coordinates a centralized project (consortium) Study in Prague and leads a team of students with whom she works together to improve the international environment at Prague’s public universities. Currently, Erika is hevaily involved in the Ukrainian relief at CTU, coordinating volunteers, organizing donations and more.

Ever since her study mobility abroad, it has drawn her to a university-international environment. She began her career in Turkey’s higher educations, where she was in charge from organizing professional events for universities mostly for Eurasian region to the arrival of exchange students. She graduated from Palacký University, Faculty of Science, majoring in International Development Studies.

Erika is also actively participating at professional conferences and events such EAIE, Czeducon and more.

Oleg Fetisov is an International Relations Specialist at the Public Relations Office of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU in Prague). He takes care of international relations, represents the faculty and its study programs for foreign applicants, actively participates in internationalization projects on university and interuniversity level. Since 2016, he also CTU Ambassador and deals with the topic of supporting and strengthening the community of foreign students. Since 2019, a member of the International Association for College Admission Counselling. In 2021 he joined the EuroTeQ alliance team and representing the CTU in Prague a Staff Education Programs Manager. Mr. Fetisov is actively participating at professional conferences and events such as APAIE, CZEDUCON, etc. Today he is highly involved in the Ukraine crisis relief at CTU in Prague.

Cross-cultural communication expert, International Project Coordinator at SWPS University. Graduated from SWPS University in Warsaw, specializing in clinical psychology. Her main research interests include cross-cultural relations, with particular emphasis on Arab culture and identity. Ms. Pasichnyk is highly experienced in the field of International Affairs and cross-cultural communication with a demonstrated history of living and working in different cultural contexts. Since 2013, Ms. Pasichnyk has coordinated various educational projects organized around the world.

Firmin Landré is project manager at École des Ponts ParisTech working on the Refugee Students Program which welcomes refugees and asylum seekers to teach them French language and supports them in continuing their studies in the higher education in France. He is in charge of developments and partnerships of the program and the support of students.

He graduated with a bachelor in Applied Foreign Languages and a master’s degree in International Relations with a research focus on peace, human rights and migration studies. He focused his education on studying abroad which gave him the experience of living and working in cross-cultural environments.

Firmin started his career as a project manager in the NGO “UniR Universités & Réfugié.e.s” which supports refugees and asylum seekers in the resumption of their studies in the higher education in France where he started several partnerships with the UNHCR and universities among others.

Kyryl Naumenko, Chief of the International Affairs Department of the Secretariat of Ukrainian Association of Students, a student MP of the Students’ Parliament of the Scientific and Educational Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, and indeed, a student of philology.

Born Jorghan von Karsten, the youngest son in a great German family, repatriated to Ukraine, Kyryl is, as befits his young noble soul, a protector of students rights, and a speaker for the upcoming European studentship emergent in Ukraine. Driven by his Roman faith, Kyryl stands is solidarity and understanding with Europe, connecting the two, seemingly separate worlds of their own, with a goal of familiarising and preparing the students of UAS for European life, firmly converted, turned away from the dark ways of the past, and into the light of fraternity that is Europe.

Main focuses of Kyryl’s volunteering at UAS count intercultural learning exchange, and the complete adaptation of Ukrainian student representation system to the European standard.

His activities count pre-war interviews with heads and representatives with a number of European National Unions of Students, and, in wartime, participation in seating of European Parliament Commision for Culture and Education ‘’Historical revisionism’’, seating of Ukrainian Group of the Council of Europe at the invitation of German Academic Exchange Service to develop strategies for higher education in emergencies, and coordinating humanitarian aid provided by European volunteers.

Anna Lottersberger is responsible for the Academic Development at RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts and founder of LAND Education. Anna holds a Ph.D. in Design, an MA in Fashion Design and a BA in Industrial Design from Politecnico di Milano.

Anna worked with Culti and Loro Piana and cofounded the brand Il Sistema Degli Oggetti. She lectured in Italy, Lebanon, China, and Singapore, where she was the Head of the School of Fashion and Design at MDIS. She served as the Head of the Fashion Cluster at Domus Academy in Italy.

Dr. Lela Mélon, a former Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and the 2021 Emerging Sustainability Leader Awardee (by World Sustainability Foundation), has a legal and economics background. Currently the Executive Director of the Planetary Wellbeing Institutional Framework at the Pompeu Fabra University and the academic director and a professor of the postgraduate programme Sustainability Transition Management and Climate Emergency at ESCI-UPF, she is specialized in EU law, with a main focus on corporate conduct and sustainability, on which she published the book Shareholder Primacy and Global Business (Routledge 2018). She is currently researching policy coherence for sustainability at the EU level, focusing on corporate law policies as well as the challenges of policy and legislative barriers in the existing EU business law framework for sustainable corporate conduct and sustainable outcomes. Besides being active in the academic field, she created and implemented a three-step systemic approach towards sustainability, which entailed the insertion of separate sustainable corporate law course in academic curricula and a simultaneous sustainable revision of the existing and well-established academic curricula in economics and law.

Inna Semenenko is Doctor of Economics, Professor, the Head of Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship and Head of Resource Centre for Sustainable Development at Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University (VDEUNU) (Luhansk region, Ukraine). Being twice IDP and working in the twice displaced University (in 2014 and 2022), she has an experience of community mobilization and restoration of educational and social activities of higher educational establishments. Working with various stakeholders (international organizations, businesses, local authorities, NGOs etc.) and together with a team of university teachers and students, she was able to set up various development projects for University, which became a full-fledged participant in the development of the conflict region. At present, Inna Semenenko is involved in the development of the Internationalization Strategy for the twice displaced VDEUNU.

Olena Orzhel is a senior researcher at the Institute of Higher Education with the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine; she is currently a team leader of research project on university social responsibility and community engagement. She is actively involved in the EU project targeting displaced universities from Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as other education projects on teaching and learning excellence, social and emotional learning, university leadership.
Her previous positions include monitoring manager at the Erasmus+ Office of Ukraine, associate professor at the European Integration Department, international relations officer, and teacher of English. Her publications are dedicated to social cohesion, university leadership and social responsibility, European integration and governance. She obtained a Ph.D. degree in linguistics and post-doctoral degree in public administration; as a Muskie Fellow, she took part in a professional development program at Indiana University, USA, where she specialized in public affairs.

1984 – 1989 – Master’s degree in Information and measurement technology, Automation faculty of Lviv Polytechnic Institute.
1999-2002 – Doctorant at Lviv Polytechnic National University
2003 – Candidate of science thesis “Accuracy increasing the of radiation temperature measurement for rotating objects”
2001 – 2007 – assistant professor, Department “Metrology, Standardization, Certification, Quality”, Institute of computer technology, automation and metrology, Lviv Polytechnic National University
2007 – 2013 – association professor, Department “Metrology, Standardization, Certification, Quality”, Lviv Polytechnic National University
2013 – Doctoral thesis “Scientific and technical principles of metrology of infrared radiation thermometry”
Since 2015 – Member of Academy of Metrology of Ukraine
2015-2018 – Professor of department “Metrology, standardization, certification, quality”, Lviv Polytechnic National University
2016-2018 – Head of scientific and education Centre of Metrology, Standardization, Certification and Quality
Since 2018 – Head of Centre for International Education at Lviv Polytechnic National University, Professor of department “Information and measurement technology”, Lviv Polytechnic National University

Vice-Rector, Lviv Polytechnic National University
1988-1993 – Postgraduate student of the Lviv Institute of Economics of NAS of Ukraine.
1993–2003 – Lecturer, Assistant, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Energy and Chemical Enterprises and Marketing;
2003–2008 – Professor of the Department of Marketing and Logistics.
2004 – The academic title of professor.
2008 to 2014 – Head of the Department of Organization Management.
2007 Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
2011 – Academician of the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine.
Since 2014 – Professor of the Department of Organization Management.
2014-2019 – Vice-rector for scientific work of Lviv Polytechnic National University
Since 2019 – Vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work and international relations of Lviv Polytechnic National University

Dr. David Claivaz is CEO of Lemania Swiss Group of Schools (LSGS) as well as Acting Dean of Business School Lausanne and holds a Ph.D from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

He has taught and managed at every level of multiple educational systems (primary, secondary and tertiary), both in French and English-speaking curricula. He has launched two international schools in the Lausanne area and has created various innovative education programs. He brings special focus on the integration of Information Technology in teaching and learning strategies.

His scope of research includes questions such as artistic creativity, interculturality, translation, and linguistics. He is currently developing an innovative entrepreneurial framework for school organizations, together with Dr. Dominique Bourqui of the University of Lausanne.

Raffaele Marchetti (Laurea, Rome-La Sapienza; PhD, London-LSE) is Deputy Rector for Internationalization and Professor in International Relations at the Department of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS. His research interest concerns global politics and governance, hybrid and city diplomacy, transnational civil society, (cyber-)security and political risk, and democracy. He acts as external expert for the European Commission and other public/private institutions on issues of global governance, public policies, civil society, and security. He is member of the editorial board of The International Spectator, the Academic Advisory Board of the NATO Defense College-NDC, LabGov – the LABoratory for the GOVernance of the City as a Commons, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), International Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IISES), Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), and the European Joint Doctorate GEM-STONES. He is the editor of the Routledge series Innovations in International Affairs.

Jürgen Enders is Professor at the School of Management, University of Bath. His academic interest is focused on the study of institutional change in the field of universities, and their role in society and economy. He is member of the editorial board of the book series ‘Higher Education Dynamics’ and the journal ‚Higher Education’. He has written and (co)edited 14 books and published more than 140 articles in books and journals. Elsevier and University of Stanford released data has recently named him among the top 2% of most highly cited academics in the world in the social sciences. Jürgen is member of the University of Oxford based Center for Global Higher Education funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Science Research Council. He is a Fellow of the Academia Europaea and of the German Academe of Science and Engineering, and Honorary Fellow of the Society for Research in Higher Education.

Dr Omolabake Fakunle is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Director EDI (01/08/22) at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. She is a member of the Tertiary Quality Framework Expert Advisory Group established by The Scottish Funding Council in 2021. Her award-winning research in internationalisation studies focuses on inclusivity in relation to individual experiences, educational policy and practice. Through the lens of inclusivity in internationalisation she critically interrogates normative conceptions of graduate employability in a global world. Omolabake is currently working on research projects exploring connections and gaps in cultural inclusivity in internationalisation and decolonisation in higher education. She disseminates her work widely via peer review journals, invited speaker at national and international conferences, blogs, and various public engagement activities.

Tatiana Fumasoli is Professor of Higher Education Studies at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, where she is the director of the UCL Centre for Higher Education Studies. Her research interests lie at the intersection of management studies, organisation theory and sociology of professions and expertise. She has led and coordinated several international projects focusing on global governance, external engagement and the academic profession. She is editor-in-chief of Higher Education Quarterly, an SRHE – Society for Research into Higher Education journal published by Wiley.

Camila Ríos Armas was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After pursuing a career in political communications in Venezuela and completing her master’s in international development at Sciences Po Paris, she got involved with multiple volunteer missions in refugee camps where she witnessed injustices that inspired her to act. As a result, Camila founded the non-profit organisation UniR Universités & Réfugié.e.s in 2018, with the goal to fight against the professional downgrading of refugees and to promote access to higher education for all. Today, she remains the director of the organisation and is also head of the Pole Americas with the Observatory for refugee camps in Paris.

Dr. Ianis G. Matsoukas holds a PhD degree from University of Warwick, and has completed his post-doctoral studies at Cornell University, ETH-Zurich, and University of Warwick.
Ianis is currently the Executive Director of Metropolitan College Global University Hub; the region’s largest university hub, home to key global education institutions, offering diverse academic and professional education programs. Prior to joining Metropolitan College of Greece, Ianis worked as Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences, as Head of a British Business School, and as Academic Executive in the Vice Chancellor’s office of a British university for 5 years.
He has attended executive education programmes at Wharton, and Harvard Medical School, whereas his research papers have been presented in prestigious academic and professional journals, conferences and the press.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thisisianis
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisisianis

Dr. Mark Thomas is Associate Dean for International Graduate Programmes at Grenoble EM, France. He holds a PhD from Lancaster University, UK and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He teaches Corporate Strategy, Strategic Management and Leadership at Master, Executive Education and PhD levels. His research focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, strategic growth and change management. He has published more that 40 articles, book chapters and monographs. He has had visiting professorship at the University of Cambridge, UK, the University of Maryland, USA and Beihang University, China.

He has worked extensively with multinationals (including Fortune 500 & CAC 40) as well as small and medium sized companies particularly in the high tech, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, aviation, and non-profit industries. His consulting work has assisted more than 30 organizations in their strategic growth, international development, accreditation processes and expansion through mergers and acquisitions.

Head of the International Relations Office of the University of Warsaw, Poland, with 14-year experience in higher education; leader of educational projects and project teams, author of successful grant applications; engaged in strategic University of Warsaw initiatives, such as Excellence Initiative – Research University, HR Excellence in Research, European Universities Initiative and recently: development of programmes for Ukrainian students and researchers; expert of the European Commission (EACEA) and Universities Canada; background in social sciences and education, Project Management Certificate holder (University of California Berkeley Extension); fellow of the US Department of State, International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).

Director of the Smart Learning Center, Director for Al Ain and Dubai Campuses, and Associate Professor of Special Education at Abu Dhabi University. Former Chair of the Education Department. Dr. Fteiha’s research interest is focused on the areas of special and inclusive education, his research work has been presented at a variety of local, national, and international conferences. Dr. Fteiha is a member of the editorial board and a reviewer for several international journals. Dr. Fteiha has received a number of awards throughout his professional life, such as Teaching Awards from ADU, Khalifa Award for Education, Princess Haya Award for Special Education, and Harvard Medical School Dubai Center TAMAYOZ Award for Health Care Professional.

Marin Lessenski is Program Director of the European Policies Program of the Open Society Institute – Sofia. He holds an MA in Southeast European Studies from the Central European University – Budapest and an MA in History from the University of Sofia. He has been a Freedom House Visiting Fellow with the Hudson Institute’s Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the Center of National Security Studies. He has also been a participant in the Transatlantic Young Leaders Program of the Aspen Institute – Berlin. Mr. Lessenski has previously worked for the Institute for Regional and International Studies (Bulgaria). Marin Lessenski is also an associate researcher with the European Council of Foreign Relations (ECFR).
At OSI-Sofia his responsibilities include the publishing of the Media Literacy Index, which proposеd a model for measuring the predictors of media literacy with the aim to rank societies in their potential for resilience in the face of the post-truth phenomenon.

Jody McBrien is a Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in human rights, global migration, and globalisation. She received a New Zealand Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy and a Fulbright Specialist Award to conduct research and evaluations with NZ’s refugee resettlement policies and educational practices. She is currently a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow, working at the OECD with the Strength through Diversity project in Paris while on sabbatical.

McBrien has conducted research and service in numerous aspects of the refugee journey (displacement, returned, and resettled) as well as with internally displaced people (IDPs) in Ghana, Uganda, the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Greece. Her latest book is Educational Policies and Practices of English-Speaking Refugee Resettlement Countries (Brill/Sense).

Dr Janyl Moldalieva is a Policy Officer at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Brussels, Belgium. She leads research and analysis on natural resource governance and sustainable development and fosters policy cooperation with the EU institutions. In the past ten years, she worked with international development and research organizations, where she conducted assessments, developed and managed projects on (resource) governance, and advised stakeholders on policy design and program interventions. She also served as a visiting scholar at the George Washington University and Columbia University. She published several articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the World Development, the Extractive Industries and Society, Post-Soviet Affairs, and others and contributed to the Roadmap for Improved Mine Waste Management (2018) led by UNEP, GRID-Arendal and Canadian International Resource and Development Institute, Global Resources Outlook (2019), Environmental Performance Review of Armenia (2022) led by the UN Economic Commission for Europe, and others.

Manal Stulgaitis is Education Officer leading on higher education for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has over 15 years of experience in refugee protection, with expertise in durable solutions, higher education, urban protection, risk management, coordination, and humanitarian-development planning. Holding a professional degree in Law and a Master’s degree in International Law and Economic Development, she has worked in the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Americas. She is currently working on inclusive refugee education issues ranging from education transitions and complementary pathways to higher education in the context of fragility and development.

Maarit Jaakkola, PhD, Associate Professor, is co-director of Nordicom, a research centre for Nordic media research at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She is also an associate professor in journalism at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg and an adjunct professor in journalism at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC) at Tampere University in Finland. Jaakkola’s research interests are interdisciplinary and connected to the questions of (digital) media and journalism, cultural practices, and learning. She has recently authored the book Reviewing Culture Online: Post-institutional Cultural Critique across Platforms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) that discusses reviewing in the vernacular context of social media, and she is currently writing a book on the pedagogical potential of reviewing and vernacular criticism. Jaakkola has been working 20 years in academia, both as a teacher, journalism educator, researcher and a research communicator. Jaakkola is leading international research collaborations and conducting community development work and currently co-leading the UNESCO MILID University Network. She is also the editor-in-chief of the digital researcher platform NordMedia Network and Kulttuurintutkimus, the Finnish peer-reviewed journal in cultural studies.

Joachim Mayer is the Director of the International Center at Hochschule Worms, Germany. He has worked in the international field more than 20 years. He is also serving since a few years at the German Fulbright as surveyor for study scholarships for students at universities of applied sciences. Mr. Mayer has been appointed as ERASMUS Expert by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) from 2007-2012.

As M.B.A Mr. Mayer taught at the University of Alabama, Mobile and at the Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu in the USA as well as the De Montfort University in the UK in the field of International Management.

He attended numerous Staff Exchanges in the frame of the ERASMUS program at different Universities in Europe.

Joachim Mayer received his Master of Business Administration from the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida, USA and his Diplom-Bertiebswirt (FH) degree from the Hochschule Worms, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Mr Mayer is the honorable elected mayor of his hometown Gundersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Anna McNamara is Director of Internationalisation for the Guildford School of Acting at the University of Surrey, previously having been Head of School, Director of Learning and Teaching and before that Director of Student Experience. A passionate advocate for inclusion, access and participation, Anna is invested in working with creative practitioners to develop teaching and scholarship opportunities through mentorship across drama schools and HE institutions. An award-winning teacher, she has published and presented internationally on a range of subjects including leadership and management, crisis-management, acting pedagogies, disability access to the arts, gender empowerment and equity, care in the curriculum and teaching, student experience, and change making. Anna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Principal Fellow of Advance HE (PFHEA) in recognition of her sustained record of effective strategic leadership in academic practice and academic development as a key contribution to high quality student learning.

As Director General, Jim leads the IUA as the representative voice for Ireland’s research-led universities.

Jim has extensive experience across a variety of commercial, communications and campaigning roles and provides leadership to the sector at a time of significant change and challenge.

An economist and Chartered Director, he was Project Director of The Gathering 2013, following a decade as co-founder and CEO of MyHome.ie. He has previously held a number of other senior roles including Business to Consumer Director at The Irish Times, General Secretary of Fine Gael and Chief Executive of Dublin Chamber of Commerce, having spent his early career as a journalist at RTE and a volunteer with Concern. Jim is also a Director of Sightsavers Ireland. He is a Rossie exile now living in Dublin!

Piet Van Hove is Senior Policy Advisor for Internationalisation at the University of Antwerp and currently serves as the Vice President of the European Association for International Education (EAIE), the European centre for expertise, networking and resources in the internationalisation of higher education. He holds a Master of Laws and has been active in internationalisation since 1995, working in the areas of student and staff mobility, development cooperation, services for international staff and students, international educational projects and strategic networking.
Piet has been active in the leadership of several professional associations and nonprofits at the national and international level for many years, such as Flanders Knowledge Area, the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA), the NGO APOPO (training rats to save lives) and the EAIE. He presents frequently on the different aspects of internationalisation of higher education. Piet will become the President of the EAIE in September of 2022 for a 2-year term.

David Duncan is the University’s Chief Operating Officer, University Secretary and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Operations). Prior to this, David was Registrar and Secretary at the University of York, a post he held for 8 years. Before then he was Secretary of the University of Dundee from 2001-8. David is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and holds a Masters degree and a PhD in history from Queen’s University, Canada.

Maddalaine Ansell joined the British Council as Director Education in November 2018. Prior to this she was Chief Executive of University Alliance, a mission group representing professional and technical universities. Maddalaine previously worked for 15 years as a Civil Servant with stints in the Treasury, Number 10, the Home Office and the then Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. She began her career as a corporate lawyer, working for both Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Sullivan & Cromwell.
Maddalaine leads the Global Education Strategy and Portfolio working collaboratively with colleagues in British Council offices across the world and with HMG, the Devolved Administrations and the Higher Education Sector.

Building on her previous experience as communications officer at EUROCONTROL, Louise Drogoul is CESAER’s Advisor for Innovation & Sustainability. Louise graduated from International Relations and Politics at the University of Sheffield and has also completed postgraduate studies in European and East Asian studies at the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. In her current role, Louise coordinates CESAER’s activities in innovation and sustainability, advocates at global, European, national and regional levels; represents the association externally; and serves and advises its governing bodies, committees and task forces.

Uwe Brandenburg holds a PhD from the University of Bristol, an MscEcon from the University of Swansea, and an M.A. in Islamic Sciences from the WWU Münster. He is Managing Director of the Global Impact Institute, held an Assoc.Prof. at the University Rovira I Virgili (2017-2021), and is a guest lecturer at the ESCP Berlin. Prior to that he was Managing Partner of CHE Consult as well as Director International at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Uwe has published widely on internationalization and led 3 major impact studies: the Erasmus Impact Study (EIS, 2014), the follow-up EIS Regional Analysis (EIS RA, 2016), and the European Voluntary Service Impact Study (2017). He presents on international conferences and teaches at different universities. Uwe’s research focuses on impact and Internationalisation in Higher Education for Society (IHES) and the influence of tech on internationalisation. He also gave a TEDx talk in March 2019 and is a fervent believer in change.

Mary Stiasny started her career as a secondary school teacher and then worked in Schools of Education in different universities in the UK, training secondary school teachers. She has also worked to develop international and global links and spent some time as Director of Education at the British Council. Mary has held middle and senior management roles in several universities, and she has worked on consultancy projects and research projects in the field of international learning and teaching. Before moving to her current role at the University of London Pro Vice-Chancellor (International, Teaching and Learning), Mary held a strategic role as Pro-Director with responsibility for Learning, Teaching and International at UCL’s Institute of Education.

Prof. Piotr Stepnowski is currently the Rector of the University of Gdańsk, Poland. He is a full professor of environmental science with a high focus on risk assessment of new emerging pollutants. He has also headed the Faculty of Chemistry at UG, the Gdańsk Atmospheric Monitoring Agency and was the founder and first director of the Institute for Environmental and Health Protection. He has published near 300 papers cited over 10,000 times. In addition to his scientific activities, Stepnowski is actively involved in the strategies and organization of the higher education and science system, especially in the fields of internationalization, social responsibility of science and the implementation of sustainable development goals by the academic community.

Janet Ilieva is the founder and director of Education Insight, a research consultancy specialising in international higher education. Janet’s research focuses on global student mobility, university partnerships, national policies for global engagement and sustainable development. Education Insight launched the Global Engagement Index (GEI), which captures the state of internationalism across the UK higher education institution and their engagement with the sustainable development agenda.

Janet started her career as a university lecturer in economics before joining the British Council in 2004 to lead the department’s work for higher education research. She joined the Higher Education Funding Council for England in May 2013 as head of the HEFCE Observatory.  Janet regularly undertakes research in higher education engagement for government departments and international organisations in Europe and Asia and the universities’ sector.

Janet is a NAFSA Senior Fellow 2020-2021, a trustee at the University of Richmond, the American International University in London, and school governor.

Dr Nigel Healey is Professor of International Higher Education and Vice President (Global and Community Engagement) at the University of Limerick. He is currently serving as Interim Provost and Deputy President. Prior to his appointment at the University of Limerick in April 2020, he held senior academic positions at Fiji National University, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Canterbury and Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as teaching positions at the University of Leicester and Leeds Beckett University.

Dr Healey has served as an economic policy advisor to the prime minister of Belarus and the deputy minister of economy of the Russian Federation and managed a number of multinational research and economic development projects in Europe and Asia. His current research interests are in the internationalization of higher education, transnational education and higher education policy and management.

Janet Ilieva is the founder and director of Education Insight, a research consultancy specialising in international higher education. Janet’s research focuses on global student mobility, university partnerships, national policies for global engagement and sustainable development. Education Insight launched the Global Engagement Index (GEI), which captures the state of internationalism across the UK higher education institution and their engagement with the sustainable development agenda.

Janet started her career as a university lecturer in economics before joining the British Council in 2004 to lead the department’s work for higher education research. She joined the Higher Education Funding Council for England in May 2013 as head of the HEFCE Observatory.  Janet regularly undertakes research in higher education engagement for government departments and international organisations in Europe and Asia and the universities’ sector.

Janet is a NAFSA Senior Fellow 2020-2021, a trustee at the University of Richmond, the American International University in London, and school governor.

Karen Peyronnin is the Head of Advanced Masters at École des ponts ParisTech in France.

She was previously a faculty member of Binus University International and head of the International Business undergraduate program. She was in charge of the first EPAS accreditation for Binus International Accounting Program (awarded in October 2014) and was assigned as Binus Global Director for Binus University.

She is French and graduated from ESG Paris (PGSM) with a master in international business Her previous European corporate experience in international business and supply chain management. Her research interest is in cross cultural management, process improvement and internationalization.

Fiona is also a global higher education management consultant, member of the International Advisory Board at the Universidad de Granada in Spain and of the Scientific Council of AVEPRO (Holy See’s Agency for the Evaluation and Promotion of Quality in Ecclesiastical Universities and Faculties), as well as Co-Editor of the Journal of Studies for International Education (JSIE).  She is Past President of the European Association for International Education (EAIE), and served for 6 years as member and chair of the Board of Directors for Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE), a non-profit education organisation in the United States.

She holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Higher Education Management from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. She has written extensively on internationalisation and higher education management and has recently co-published “An illustrated guide to managing institutions of higher education”.

Paul Mullally began his career as a chemist in science laboratories and moved to working in the Higher Education field in 2007. He has been directly involved with student recruitment from a range of different countries and regions, and he has worked for several institutions over the years including two in Ireland: Griffith College and Maynooth University. He was also a former Deputy Director of Griffith International at Griffith University in Australia. Over the last 7 years, Paul has been an international education consultant and has worked with universities in Ireland, UK, US, Australia, and NZ to help with their internationalisation strategies. Paul and his team have contributed to the development of international education over the years by writing internationalisation strategies and implementing them for institutions as well as contributing to national and international discussions and forums relating to international education.

His company, Education Lighthouse, has recruited students from many different regions for all his clients. He has attended, exhibited, and presented at many international conferences around the world.

Prior to joining Loughborough, Martyn has held a number of senior recruitment and marketing roles across different organisations within the HE sector including the British Council, University of Nottingham and IDP Education. More recently he was Interim Director of Marketing, Recruitment and International at Swansea University.

Martyn is a graduate of Cardiff University with a bachelor degree in English and a Masters in Strategic Marketing, further to this he holds a postgraduate qualification from the University of Manchester. He is a former Vice-Chair of the British Universities International Liaison Association (BUILA) and of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Higher Education Special Interest Group.  In addition to his work with the QS Global Advisory Committee, Martyn is also a current member of the District Cabinet UK and Ireland for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Winnie has broad experience in tertiary education across Continents. She has dedicated interests in all-round education, strategy, governance, leadership and management. For over two decades, Winnie held a number of senior academic leadership and executive positions from Vice-President at University of Southampton in the UK, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at The University of Newcastle in Australia, Director of International Affairs at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Deputy Country Director at British Council in Nigeria, to Director of Education Services at British Council in Hong Kong. She is an appointed auditor of Quality Assurance Council at University Grants Committee in Hong Kong between 2014 and 2019. Currently, Winnie is a Partner at Education Insight UK and an honorary member of Association of British Chinese Professors registered in the UK.

Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Quality Management Office, chair of the IE Department and dean of the College of Engineering of Lyceum of the Philippines-Laguna, and as senior manager of INTEL Philippines.

Engr. Ong is a Professional Industrial Engineer and an ASEAN Engineer. He was the very first to join the ASEAN Engineer registry in 2012 from the UST Faculty of Engineering. The recognition is given to engineers in the Southeast Asian region who have achieved “operational excellence in the field of engineering.”

With his more than two decades of accomplishment-laden experience in several multinational manufacturing companies by assuming various senior and technical management positions, Engr. Ong successfully turned around every manufacturing arena into delivering the necessary factory systems to enable World Class Manufacturing. His excellent leadership efforts won for him several recognitions/awards. One of his notable achievements, when he was named as INTEL Key Employee in Year 2000 in recognition of his valuable services and contributions to INTEL’s operation. This is Intel’s highest recognition award given to a deserving and consistently rated outstanding employee. INTEL Philippines was the nation’s leading exporter for many years past.

With his strong background in various key areas of expertise, he is the prime mover in the successful ISO Certification of UST. He is being considered to be a high caliber consultant that can be tapped in both the industry and academia. Moreover, Engr. Ong crafted a framework of the UST’s EQMS (Educational Quality Management System) for excellence which became his research paper as accepted in two international conferences in the same year entitled, “An Integrated Framework: Unifying Diverse Perspectives in EQMS” and turnedout in reality when UST earned the distinction of being the first and only university in the Philippines with the four-star rating in QS Stars Rating awarded in 2015 and 2017. Now, UST becomes first and only Philippine university with five stars QS rating. Moreover, four of his research papers have been accepted into International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, which is a Q3 Journal under SCIMAGO-SCOPUS Rankings.

Engr. Ong is currently the only Filipino sitting as a member of the InternationalAcademic Advisory Committee of Quacquarelli-Symonds (QS) since 2015. Simultaneously, he has been chosen as the chair of the parallel sessions committee under the different tracks in every QS International Conference and Exhibit annual events. Several international universities have invited him to sit as one of their advisory board members at their international conferences.

Engr. Ong holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering degree from the University of the Philippines-Diliman where he was a consistent UPCE-PCIERD scholar and a BSIE degree from the MAPUA Institute of Technology.

Dr. Alison Lloyd leads the Office of Institutional Research and Planning. She joined Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) in May 2020 after 14 years in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she steered international affairs and institutional research in the institution. Prior to joining academia, she worked in the field of management consultancy. Her previous consulting engagements cover strategy, business process re-engineering, performance management frameworks and change management for both private and public sector organisations in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, Dr. Lloyd serves on a number of advisory boards and steering committees pertaining to international higher education. Outside academia, Alison serves as an independent Non-Executive Director of Giordano International Limited (0709: HK), and Director of a social enterprise called WeDo Global.

Pei-Shan Tsai, PhD, RN, isa distinguished professor at Taipei Medical University College of Nursing. Her research focuses on the link between stress‐response systems and chronic illnesses and outcomes of nursing care of patients with stress‐related illnesses. Having published morethan 130 peer-reviewed articles in medical, psychology, and nursing journals, Tsai is noted for bringing researchers from different fields together to collaborate on research projects that have important clinical and policymaking implications. In her capacity as Dean of TMU Office of Global Engagement, she leads a team of professionals and academics to assist international exchange of people and ideas, facilitate collaboration in education and research, and promote the institution’s achievements. Working closely with the University’s Senior Leadership Team, Tsai provides strategic advice and practical solutions to the institution’s vision for international development. She is an active participant in international networks and a member of the QS Academic Committee.

Dr Diah Wihardini is the Director of BINUS Global of Bina Nusantara (BINUS) University in Jakarta, Indonesia. She took her PhD in educational measurement at UC Berkeley under the Presidential Fulbright scholarship, a M.Ed at Flinders University, and a B.Sc (Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests include item response modelling and development, international assessments, teaching and learning, and educational policy analysis.At BINUS, she handles all activities related to internationalisations and collaborations, and teaches mathematics and statistics courses at undergraduate level.

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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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• Building Better Universities
• SDGs for Universities
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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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• Building Better Universities
• SDGs for Universities
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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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• Building Better Universities
• SDGs for Universities
• SDGs for Universities
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Engr. Nestor Rubio Ong is a full-time faculty member and is presently the Deputy Director of the University of Santo Tomas’ Office of QS/THE Rankings

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• Building Better Universities
• SDGs for Universities
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