Building university impact through resilience and innovation
This year’s Emerging Economies Summit was our best-attended to date, bringing together an outstanding group of delegates and speakers from 110 institutions and 42 countries.
University leaders from around the world along with policymakers and industry executives converged to discuss the crucial role of research universities in developing nations, and share best practice for building impact towards the fundamental goal of making the world a better place. We are pleased to share the session footage from the summit, for you to review at your leisure and remind yourself of any great content that you missed.
Watch the 2019 highlights video to get an overview of the event.
Monday 14 January 2019
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
Chair: Joanna Newman, chief executive and secretary-general, Association of Commonwealth Universities
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
Tuesday 15 January 2019
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
Wednesday 16 January 2019
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