Speakers
Jan Sadlak
President of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, Belgium
Hassan Rashid Al-Derham
President of Qatar University
HE Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim
Board member at Qatar University and Economic Advisor for H.H. the Emir of Qatar at Amiri Diwan
Francisco Marmolejo
Lead, Global Solutions Group on Tertiary Education and Lead Education Specialist for India, The World Bank
Mukash Burkitbayev
First vice rector of al-Farabi Kazakh National University, doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor
Andy Martin
Founder and Director of Firetail Limited, United Kingdom
Ying Cheng
Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Marek Kwiek
Professor Marek Kwiek holds a UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy and is a director of the Center for Public Policy Studies at the University of Poznan, Poland.
Richard Holmes
University Ranking Watch
Marko Marhl
Professor, Faculty of Education & Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Member of the Executive Committee of IREG Observatory, Slovenia
Narimane Hadj-Hamou
Chief Executive Officer, CLIKS – Center for Learning Innovations & Customized Knowledge Solutions, United Arab Emirates
Murat Perit Cakir
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Amin Noaman
Vice-president for development, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Saudi Arabia
R. Lizzie Wahab
Associate Vice President , University of New Haven, USA
António Rendas
Rector, University NOVA of Lisbon, Portugal
Karima Mariama-Arthur
Founder and CEO, WordSmithRapport, USA
Luiz Costa
Academic Vice Rector of IESB University, Former Vice-Minister of Education and former Rector of Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil
Nico Jooste
President, International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA); Senior Director, International Education, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Khaled AL-Rasheid
Professor and Director of the Distinguished Scientist Fellowship Program, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
David Pendlebury
Senior Analysts, Clarivate Analytics [formerly the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)], United States
Mazen Hasna
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University
Daniel Guhr
Managing Director, The Illuminate Consulting Group, USA
N.V. Varghese
Director, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE), India
Ben Sowter
Head of the QS Intelligence United Kingdom [QS World University Rankings]
Waldemar Siwiński
President, Perspektywy Education Foundation, Vice-President of IREG Observatory, Poland
Xuejun (Snow) Wang
Ranking Manager of ShanghaiRanking Consultancy
Riri Fitri Sari
Head of the QS Intelligence United Kingdom [QS World University Rankings]