THE World Academic Summit 2021

SPEAKERS

Ayesha Abdulla

Executive dean of business

Higher Colleges of Technology

Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed

Founding director

Social Innovation Lab

Oriol Amat

Rector

Pompeu Fabra University

Jeroen Baas

Director of funding content and analytics

Elsevier

Simon Baker

Data editor

THE

Paul Basken

Editor (North America)

THE

Phil Baty

Chief knowledge officer

THE

Kumsal Bayazit

CEO

Elsevier

Hilary Beckles

Vice-chancellor

The University of the West Indies

Sue Bennett

Head of the School of Education

University of Wollongong

Daina Ramey Berry

Professor and chair of the history department

The University of Texas at Austin

Vijayakumar Bhagavatula

Director

Carnegie Mellon University Africa

Rufus Black

President and vice-chancellor

University of Tasmania

Kate Bock

Regional director (UK)

THE

Ellie Bothwell

Rankings editor

THE

Dan Breznitz

Munk chair of innovation studies and co-director of the Innovation Policy Lab

University of Toronto

Ted Brodheim

Adviser to the chief information officer

Zoom

Stephen Cairns

Co-director of the Future Cities Laboratory

ETH Zurich

Denise Carvalho

Rector

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Jane Chafer

Director of marketing, recruitment, communications and global

University of Exeter

Karen Chapple

Director of the school of cities

University of Toronto

Subhasis Chaudhuri

Director

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Luiz Costa

President

IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence

Philip Cotton

Head of Scholars Program

Mastercard Foundation

Rob Curtin

Director of worldwide higher education

Microsoft

Sara Custer

Associate editor (curation)

THE

Ronald Daniels

President

Johns Hopkins University

Emma Deraze

Senior data scientist

THE

Simone Dilena

President (APAC)

THE

M'hamed el Aisati

Vice-president of product management, funding and content analysis

Elsevier

José Escamilla

Director of educational innovation

Monterrey Institute of Technology

David Estok

Vice-president of communications

University of Toronto

Carolyn Evans

President and vice-chancellor

Griffith University

Shaun Ewen

Pro vice-chancellor (place and indigenous)

The University of Melbourne

Katherine Fleming

Provost

New York University

Richard Florida

Professor in the Rotman School of Management and School of Cities

University of Toronto

Meric Gertler

President

University of Toronto

John Gill

Editor

THE

Jack Grove

Reporter

THE

Andrew Hamilton

President

New York University

Chris Havergal

News editor

THE

Susan Hill

Director of the Centre for Indigenous Studies

University of Toronto

Geoffrey Hinton

Distinguished emeritus professor

University of Toronto

Gül İnanç

Co-director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies

The University of Auckland

Lachyn Italmazova

Regional director (Europe and Russia/CIS)

THE

Sally Jeffery

Global education and skills network leader

PwC

Terren Klein

Co-founder and CEO

College Pulse

Ishan Kolhatkar

General manager (UK)

Inspera Assesment

Sabine Kunst

President

Humboldt University of Berlin

Elizabeth Langran

Professor of education

Marymount University

Reneta Lansiquot

Director of the honors scholars program

New York City College of Technology

Alistair Lawrence

Special projects editor

THE

Kwang Hyung Lee

President

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Johanna Lowe

Director of marketing and communications

The University of Sydney

Susan McCahan

Vice-provost of academic programmes

University of Toronto

Kristin Medlin

Co-founder and director of research and development

Collaboratory

John Morgan

Deputy news editor

THE

Jingwen Mu

Strategic planning manager

The University of Auckland

Anton Muscatelli

Principal and vice-chancellor

University of Glasgow

Josh Nicholson

Co-founder and CEO

scite

Robbie Nicol

Professor of place-based education

The University of Edinburgh

Christopher Nitsch

Regional director (North America)

THE

Christine Ofulue

Professor of linguistics

National Open University of Nigeria

Hannah Peacock

Impact Rankings product owner

THE

Mamokgethi Phakeng

Vice-chancellor

University of Cape Town

Siân Phillips

Content director

THE

Simon Pratt

Director of research strategy and excellence

University of Toronto

Miranda Prynne

Content curator

THE

Krishna Rajagopal

Acting vice-president of open learning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Matthew Reisz

Books editor

THE

Louise Richardson

Vice-chancellor

University of Oxford

Annelise Riles

Associate provost of global affairs

Northwestern University

Duncan Ross

Chief data officer

THE

John Ross

Editor (Asia-Pacific)

THE

Nancy Rothwell

President and vice-chancellor

The University of Manchester

Bjørn Rustberggaard

Founder and CEO

Inspera Assesment

Afke Schaart

Senior vice-president of global government affairs

Huawei

Gavin Schmidt

Senior climate adviser

NASA

Elizabeth Shepherd

Managing director of consultancy services

THE

Andy Simmons

Head of marketing

The University of Manchester

Tim Sowula

Head of content and engagement

THE

David Spiegelhalter

Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication

University of Cambridge

Mark Sudbury

Head of global network development

World 100 Reputation Network

John Tory

Mayor

City of Toronto

Kellee Tsai

Dean of the school of humanities and social science

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Laura Tucker

Founder and CEO

Vertigo Ventures

Mark Tweddle

Senior higher education consultant

THE

Betty Vandenbosch

Chief content officer

Coursera

Carrie Vernon

Deputy director of corporate communications and marketing

The University of Sheffield

Alex Wade

Director of strategic partnerships

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Ludo Waltman

Deputy director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies

Leiden University

Shuaiguo Wang

President

XuetangX

David Watkins

Head of data science

THE

Yonah Welker

Explorer and board member

Yonah.ai

Abbey Willis

Assistant teaching professor

Siena College

Tassew Woldehanna

President

Addis Ababa University

Billy Wong

Lead data scientist

THE

Joseph Wong

Vice-president (international)

University of Toronto

Shinobu Yamaguchi

Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability

United Nations University

Meghan Fay Zahniser

Executive director

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

Yi Zheng

Head of the office of the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals

Tsinghua University

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