Speakers and attendees will include representatives from:
Academic leadership (presidents of universities, vice-chancellors, provosts and deans), Government, business (top managers from leading corporations), media (higher education and innovation editors), researchers (top scholars in the field of higher education).
Co-Chairs of the Conference
Peter Haynes
Provost and Deputy President, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Santiago Íñiguez
President, IE University, Spain
Keynote Speakers
Eric Mazur
Academic Dean of Applied Sciences and Engineering and Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
Joel Poldony
CEO, Honor Education, United States
Speakers, Moderators & Delegates
Faith Abiodun
Executive Director, UWC International, United Kingdom
Muhammad Al-Saggaf
President, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Valérie Amiraux
Vice-Rector, Global Engagement and First Peoples, Université de Montreal, Canada
Nelson Baker
Dean of Professional Education, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Phil Baty
Chief Global Affairs Officer, Times Higher Education, London, United Kingdom
Arlette Beltrán
Academic Vice Rector, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru
Paolo Boccardelli
Rector, LUISS University, Italy
Cynthia Bowles
Director of Digital Learning, IE University
Guy Champniss
IE Business School and Headspring Executive Development Professor
Hicham El Habti
President, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
Jalal Charaf
Chief Digital and AI Officer, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
Kenneth Cukier
Deputy Executive Editor, The Economist
Anila DeHart
Future of Work Strategist (formerly Deloitte Global Managing Director)
Jayna Devani
Higher Education Lead, OpenAI EMEA, United Kingdom
Thomas Estermann
Director, Governance, Funding and Public Policy Development, European University Association, Belgium
Mathias Falkenstein
Director of Higher Education Development, Studyportals
Gonzalo Garland
Executive Vice President of IE Foundation, IE University, Spain
David B. Go
Vice President and Associate Provost for Academic Strategy, University of Notre Dame, United States
Lucas S. Grosman
Rector, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
Ahmad Hasnah
President, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Andrew Jack
Global Education Editor, The Financial Times, United Kingdom
Marlos C. Lima
Director for International Affairs, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Daniel Jutras
Rector, Université de Montréal, Canada
Susanna Kempe
CEO, Laidlaw Foundation, London, United Kingdom
Mikael Lindström
Deputy President of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
LIU Hao
Executive Dean, School of Global Governance and School of Management, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China
Emma McCoy
Vice President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom
Anne McElvoy
Executive Editor, Politico, United Kingdom
Juan Pablo Murra
Rector, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Ben Nelson
Founder, Minerva University, United States
Funmi Olonisakin
Vice President of Global Engagement, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Markus Perkmann
Vice-Dean and Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School, UK
Christopher Persson
Executive Chair & Co-Founder at LIS, London, United Kingdom
Usha Prashar
Member of the House of Lords, UK Parliament, United Kingdom
Deborah Prentice
Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Diego Quiroga
Rector, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Julie Sanders
Vice-Chancellor and Principal at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Ikhlaq Sidhu
Dean of the IE School of Science and Technology, IE University, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal
President, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mikkel Sørensen
Director, DTU Skylab, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
Michael Spence
President, University College London, United Kingdom
Matthew Symonds
Editor-in-Chief, BlueSky Thinking, UK
Marianne Thellersen
Senior-Vice-President for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
Peter Todd
Dean Imperial Business School, Imperial University, London, United Kingdom
Jessica Turner
Chief Executive Officer, QS Quacquarelli Symonds
Federico Valdés
Rector, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
Alexandra Velasco Hornby
Director of the Development Department, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Jess Wade
Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer in Functional Materials, Imperial College, UK
Evelyn Welch
Vice Chancellor and President, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Zheng Xinye
Vice-President, Renmin University, China
Planning Committee
Geoffroy Gérard
Managing Director, Reinventing Higher Education Conference, Managing Director, IE Foundation, IE University, Spain
Heather Haseley
Managing Director – Institute for Extended Learning, Imperial College London, UK
Igone Jayo
Executive Assistant, President Office, IE University, Spain