M’hamed el Aisati, vice-president of product management, funding and content analytics, Elsevier

Duncan Ross, chief data officer, THE

Laura Tucker, chief executive officer, Vertigo Ventures

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Ernest Aryeetey, secretary-general, African Research Universities Alliance

Philip Cotton, vice-chancellor, University of Rwanda

Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, vice-chancellor, University of Ghana

Raheel Qamar, rector, COMSATS University Islamabad

Chair: John Gill, editor, THE

Dlawer Ala’Aldeen, founding president, Middle East Research Institute, and former minister of higher education and scientific research, Kurdistan regional government of Iraq

Mirvat Bulbul, vice-president for administrative and financial affairs, Birzeit University

Hassan Al-Derham, president, Qatar University

Marta Losada Falk, president emeritus, Antonio Nariño University

Tshilidzi Marwala, vice-chancellor and principal, University of Johannesburg

Konstantin Miniar-Beloruchev, vice-rector, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Hassan Al-Derham, president, Qatar University

Phil Baty, chief knowledge officer, THE

Hessa Al-Jaber, former minister of ICT, Qatar Government

Mariam Al-Maadeed, vice-president for research and graduate studies, Qatar University

Carlos H. de Brito Cruz, scientific director, FAPESP

Mirvat Bulbul, vice-president for administrative and financial affairs, Birzeit University

Ramgopal Rao, director, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Abdul Sattar Al-Taie, executive director, Qatar National Research Fund

WIlliam Massy, professor emeritus of education and business administration and former vice-provost and vice-president, Stanford University

Roberto Alvarez, executive director, Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils 

Michael Fung, deputy chief executive (industry), SkillsFuture and president, Higher Education Planning in Asia Association

Marcelo Kekligian, digital, analytics, cyber and innovation leader, Ernst & Young MENA

Lesley Thompson, vice-president, academic & government strategic alliances, Elsevier

Sethuraman Panchanathan, executive vice-president, Knowledge Enterprise, chief research and innovation officer, Arizona State University

John Gill, editor, THE 

Sarah Anyang Agbor, commisioner for human resources, science and technology, African Union

Adnan Abu-Dayya, executive director, Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre

Mikhail Strikhanov, rector, National Research Nuclear University MEPhl

M'hamed El Aisati, vice-president of product management, funding and content analytics, Elsevier 

Phil Baty, chief knowledge officer, THE

Duncan Ross, chief data officer, THE

Baroness Valerie Amos CH, director, SOAS, University of London

Bahram Bekhradnia, president, Higher Education Policy Institute 

Luiz Costa, president, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence and academic vice-rector, IESB University 

Jenny Lee, professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona

Fernando León García, president, CETYS University System

Hasan Mandal, president, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

Zainab Malik, head of consultancy, THE

Francisco Rojas Aravena, rector, University for Peace

Philip Cotton, vice-chancellor, University of Rwanda

Hilligje Van’t Land, secretary-general, International Association of Universities 

Joanna Newman, chief executive and secretary-general, Association of Commonwealth Universities

Chair: John Gill, editor, THE  

Ernest Aryeetey, secretary-general, African Research Universities Alliance 

Francisco Marmolejo, lead higher education specialist for India, the World Bank

John Gill, editor, THE

Hassan Al-Derham, president, Qatar University