Speakers

Luiz Claudio Costa
President of IREG Observatory and Academic Ranking and Excellence, Brazil

Liu Gonghui
President Beijing University of Technology, China

M’hamed el Aisati
Vice President, Elsevier, Netherlands

Isidro F. Aguillo
Head of Cybermetric Lab – Scimago Group (Webometrics)

Phil Baty
Chief Knowledge Officer, Times Higher Education THE, UK

Sonja Berghoff
Head of national rankings at CHE, Germany

Jaroslaw Bosy
Rector, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Poland)

Mirko degli Esposti
Deputy Rector Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy

Gero Federkeil
Head of International Rankings at CHE, Germany

Isak Froumin
Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia

Fu Guo
Vice President, Beijing University of Technology, China

Simon Gaskell
Chair, UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, UK

Dmitry Grishankov
Director, RaEx, Russia

Ellen Hazelkorn
Joint Managing Partner, BH Associates, Ireland

Richard Holmes
Editor, University Ranking Watch

Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen
President, Denmark’s Foundation for

Stanisław Kistryn
Jagiellonian University, Poland

Michael Matlosz
President of EuroScience, France

Robert Morse
Chief Data Strategist for US News & World Report, USA

John O’Leary
Times Good University Guide (UK)

Raghu Raman
Amrita University, India

Jan Sadlak
Higher Education Expert, France/Poland

Waldemar Siwinski
Vice President, IREG Observatory; President, Perspektywy Education Foundation, Poland

Ben Sowter
Senior Vice President, QS Quacquarelli Symonds, UK

Jakob Stoustrup
Dean, Aalborg University, Denmark

Alex Usher
President, Higher Education Strategy Associates, Canada

Ludo Waltman
Deputy Director of CWTS Leiden, Netherlands

Samile Andréa de Souza Vanz

Lu Wang
ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, China

Hans de Wit
Boston College, USA/Netherlands