OUR SPEAKERS

Ruslan Abaev

Senior manager

PwC

Fatma Abdullah

Senior vice-provost of strategy and planning

NYU Abu Dhabi

Hussain Al Hammadi

Minister of education

UAE Government

Hamel Al Qubaisi

Rhodes scholar

NYU Abu Dhabi

Abdullatif Al Shamsi

President and CEO

Higher Colleges of Technology

Ghaleb Al-Hadrami

Vice-chancellor

United Arab Emirates University

Awam Amkpa

Interim dean of arts and humanities

NYU Abu Dhabi

Lisa Anderson

Former president

The American University in Cairo

Shadi Awwad

Regional manager of emerging markets

Elsevier

Sohail Bajammal

CEO

National Center for Academic Accreditation and Evaluation

Phil Baty

Chief knowledge officer

THE

Carol Bellamy

Chair of the board of directors

Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund

Amine Bensaid

President and professor

Al Akhawayn University

Mongi Besbes

Vice-chancellor

University of Carthage

Douglas Blackstock

CEO

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

Ellie Bothwell

Rankings editor

THE

Emily Carter

Provost and executive vice-chancellor

University of California, Los Angeles

Lisa Coleman

Senior vice-president of global inclusion and strategic innovation

NYU

Sara Custer

Associate editor (curation)

THE

Rana Dajani

Professor of molecular cell biology

Hashemite University

Nick Davis

Regional director (MENA)

THE

Samar Farah

Skills transformation consultant

Coursera

Katherine Fleming

Provost

NYU

Pascale Ghazaleh

Chair and associate professor

The American University in Cairo

Jouhaina Gherib

President

University of Manouba

Omar Ghobash

Assistant minister for culture and public diplomacy

UAE Government

John Gill

Editor

THE

Thomas Glas-Hochstettler

Provost

Abu Dhabi University

Nancy Gleason

Director of the Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning

NYU Abu Dhabi

Sara Guyer

Professor of English

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Andrew Hamilton

President

NYU

Chris Havergal

News editor

THE

David Keyes

Senior associate of strategic priorities and institutional partnerships

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Fadlo Khuri

President

American University of Beirut

Tenia Kyriazi

Deputy director of academic operations

Middlesex University Dubai

Alistair Lawrence

Special projects editor

THE

Marta Losada

Dean of science and professor of physics

NYU Abu Dhabi

Hugh Martin

Registrar and chief administrative officer

The British University in Dubai

Safwan Masri

Executive vice-president of global centres and global development

Columbia University

Ivor McGettigan

Partner

Al Tamimi & Company

Hoda Mostafa

Director of the Centre for Learning and Teaching

The American University in Cairo

Yusra Mouzughi

President

Royal University for Women

Radouane Mrabet

President

Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University

Mahmoud Muati

Head of strategy and planning

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Ahmed Murad

Associate provost of research

United Arab Emirates University

Adil Najam

Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies

Boston University

Sari Nusseibeh

Former president

Al-Quds University

Bryan Penprase

Vice-president of sponsored research and external academic relations

Soka University of America

Arlie Petters

Provost

NYU Abu Dhabi

Fabio Piano

Professor of biology

NYU

Wasif Rizvi

President

Habib University

Duncan Ross

Chief data officer

THE

Silvia Serrano

Vice-chancellor

Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi

Seteney Shami

Founding director-general

Arab Council for the Social Sciences

Abdelmajeed Shamlawi

Executive director of strategic partnerships

Queen Rania Teacher Academy

Vanita Shastri

Dean of global education and strategic programmes

Ashoka University

Elizabeth Shepherd

Managing director of consultancy services

THE

Bryan Waterman

Vice-provost of undergraduate academic development

NYU Abu Dhabi

David Watkins

Head of data science

THE

Mariët Westermann

Vice-chancellor

NYU Abu Dhabi

Wim Wiewel

President

Lewis & Clark College

Galina Yakshonak

Customer research and analytics consultant

Elsevier