Speakers

Luiz Claudio Costa
President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence (Brazil)

Alojzy Nowak
Rector, University of Warsaw (Poland)

Waldemar Siwinski
Vice President, IREG Observatory, President, Perspektywy (Poland)

Michael Murphy
President of the European University Association (EUA). A past President of University College Cork, (Ireland)

Phil Baty
Chief Knowledge Officer, Times Higher Education (United Kingdom)

Ellen Hazelkorn
Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland)

Marek Kwiek
Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland)

Gero Federkeil
Manager in Charge of Rankings, CHE-Centre for Educational Development (Germany)

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

Lu Wang
Ranking Manager at Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (China)

Michelle Asha Cooper
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs and Acting Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education (USA)

Isidro F. Aguillo
Editor of Webometrics, Head of Cybermetric Lab – Scimago Group, IPP-CSIC (Spain)

Alex Usher
President, Higher Education Strategy Associates (Canada)

Andrzej Kozminski
Co-founder and first Rector of Kozminski University (Poland)

Michael Zgurovsky
Rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine)

Thomas Parker
Senior Associate, Institute for Higher Education Policy (USA)

Richard Holmes
Editor, University Ranking Watch (United Kingdom/Malaysia)

Simon Marginson
Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) (UK/Australia)

Dominik Antonowicz
Professor at Nicolas Copernicus University (Poland)

Ben Sowter
Senior Vice President, QS Quacquarelli Symonds (United Kingdom)

Ying Cheng
CEO & Co-Founder at Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (China)

Gillian Golden
Project Manager, Higher Education Evidence Development at OECD (Ireland)

Burkitbayev Mukhambetkali
Professor, and former first Vice Rector, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty (Kazakhstan)

Andrew MacFarlane
Senior Research Manager (Rankings) at QS Quacquarelli Symonds

Riti Fitri Sari
Greenmetrics Ranking, University of Indonesia (Indonesia)

Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna
Vice-Rector for Science and Education, WSB Academy in Dąbrowa Górnicza

Georges Yahchouchi
President, American University of the Middle East

Michael Caruana
Strategic Partnerships Director Minerva Project (USA

Brendan Cantwell
Associate Professor, University of Arizona/ Michigan State University (USA)

Rachel Martin
The Global Director of Sustainability at Elsevier