Speakers

• Mr. W. Archer
• Mr. Ron Bormans
• Dr. Robert Coelen
• Prof. Koenraad Debackere
• Mr. Gero Federkeil
• Prof. Luke Georghiou
• Prof. Wolfgang Glänzel
• Prof. Ellen Hazelkorn
• Prof. Paul van der Heijden
• Prof. Lauritz Holm-Nielsen
• Mr. Martin Ince
• Dr. Neil Kemp
• Prof. Anthony van Raan
• Dr. Jan Sadlak
• Mr. Tony Sheil
• Ms. Hanneke Teekens
• Dr. Westerheijden

Mr. W. Archer
Director i-Graduate.org

William Archer directs the world’s largest study of international students.  Tracking student opinion and reporting in confidence to universities across the globe, his team monitors the importance of university rankings across 190 countries.

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Mr. Ron Bormans
President HAN University of Applied Science (the Netherlands)
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Dr. Robert Coelen
Vice-President International, Leiden University (the Netherlands)
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Prof. Koenraad Debackere
Manager, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (Belgium)

Prof. Dr. Ir. Koenraad Debackere has been with K.U. Leuven since 1995. In 1995 he became professor at K.U.Leuven where he teaches Technology and Innovation Management. In 1993, 1995 and 1997 he has won Best Research Paper Awards from the American Academy of Management and the Decision Sciences Institute. His research has focused on the area of technology and innovation management and policy. He is also actively engaged in technology transfer activities as managing director of K.U. Leuven Research & Development and Chairman of the Gemma Frisius Fonds (the venture fund) of the K.U.Leuven. He is the co-founder and chairman of Leuven.Inc, the innovation network of Leuven high-tech entrepreneurs. He is a board member of IWT-Vlaanderen, the Flemish government agency that supports science and technology development in Flemish industry. Since 2005, he is the general manager of K.U.Leuven.

Dr. Gero Federkeil
Centre for Higher Education (CHE), Gütersloh (Germany)

Gero Federkeil holds a degree in sociology from University of Bielefeld (Germany). After working for some years in empirical social research he joint the German National Science Council in 1993. Working there for seven years in university planning, evaluation and policy consulting. Since 2000 he is working for the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE), an non-profit organisation dealing with higher education policy and consulting. His main field of work is university ranking. He has published on quality assurance, evaluation, benchmarking, performance indicators and rankings. Vice-Chair of IREG – International Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence (International Ranking Expert Group).

Prof. Luke Georghiou
Professor of Science & Technology Policy and Management
Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester (UK)
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Prof. Wolfgang Glänzel
Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (Belgium)

Wolfgang Glänzel is Professor at K.U. Leuven and Director of the Steunpunt O&O Indicatoren of the Flemish community. He is Co-Editor of the international journal Scientometrics, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Informetrics and Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Wolfgang Glänzel is (co-)authors of several books and more than 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. In 1999 he received the Derek deSolla Price Award for outstanding contributions to the quantitative studies of science.

Prof. Ellen Hazelkorn
Director Dublin Institute of Technology and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts, Dublin (Ireland)

Professor Ellen Hazelkorn is the Director of Research and Enterprise, and Dean of the Graduate Research School, Dublin Institute of Technology; she also leads the Higher Education Policy Research Unit. She is a Consultant to the OECD Programme on Institutional Management of Higher Education (IMHE), and is associated with its Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members, and with the International Association of Universities (IAU).
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Prof. Paul van der Heijden
Rector Magnificus & President of the Executive Board, Leiden University (the Netherlands)

Prof. Lauritz Holm-Nielsen
Rector, University of Aarhus (Denmark)

Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen has been Rector of the Aarhus University in Denmark since 2005, as well as Vice-Chairman of the Danish Rectors’ Conference, Vice-Chairman of Universities Denmark, Chairman of the Nordic Universities Association and a Member of the Board of the European University Association.
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Mr. Martin Ince
Commissioning Editor, Times Higher Education Supplement, London (UK).

Martin Ince is contributing editor of Times Higher Education and editor of the THE/QS World University Rankings, science journalist and writer, media adviser, editor and writer for Uk government departments, universities and various European organisations.
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Dr. Neil Kemp
International Education Consultant and Visiting Fellow, University of London (UK)
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Prof. Anthony van Raan
Professor & Director Centre for Science and Technology (CWTS), Leiden University (the Netherlands)
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Dr. Jan Sadlak
Director UNESCO-CEPES, Buckarest (Romania)

Dr. Jan SADLAK is Director of UNESCO-European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES) in Bucharest, Romania. Prior to this he was Chief of the Section for Higher Education Policy and Reform in UNESCO, Paris. He holds an MA degree in economics from the Economic University in Wroclaw, Poland, and a Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of Buffalo/SUNY, USA. He is a Member Correspondent of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities - Academia Europensis, Paris, France, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, San Francisco, USA. He received a number of honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) and high rank academic and national distinctions. His research interests and publications cover key issues in higher education and science policy, intellectual entrepreneurialism as well as ethical dimension of higher education and science.

Mr. Tony Sheil
Senior Manager, Research Policy, Griffith University (Australia)

Tony Sheil is a regular contributor to Australian university policy debate on a range of issues including rankings, research policy and research assessment. He is currently a member of the Australian Government’s Indicators Development Group for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative.  
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Ms. Hanneke Teekens
Director Communications, Nuffic Netherlands Organisation for Internationalisation (the Netherlands).

Hanneke Teekens is currently director communication with Nuffic, the Netherlands organization for international cooperation in higher education. Before she has worked at the Hogeschool and University of Amsterdam and Twente University. She held various positions in international education and has worked extensively in different parts of the world. She read history at Leyden University. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and seminars and has published on many aspects of the internationalization of higher education.

Dr. Westerheijden
Don F. Westerheijden completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Twente on the subject of political and bureaucratic decision-making in 1988. Since then he has worked as senior research associate at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) of that university, where he co-ordinates research related to quality management, ‘ranking’ etc.  He has edited and contributed to books on quality assessment in higher education, and produced a number of articles on the topic. He is a member of the editorial boards of three journals related to quality in higher education. In addition, he is a member of the expert panel of Studychoice.nl, the Dutch national website for comparative study programme information.
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