Creators and Guests

He/Him. President, Higher Education Strategy Associates

University of Padova Italy

Senior Scholar, Georgetown University

Chair Professor of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong

Co-author of 'Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production'

Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands

Secretary-general of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and a former vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana.

Co-author of University Governance in Canada: Navigating Complexity.

Editor-in-chief of Frank Talk Now and chief operating officer of AF24 News, frequent higher education writer.

Director & Chief Executive, The International Centre Goa

Head of the Observatory of Higher Education Innovations at Jacobs University, in Bremen Germany

Lead consultant at the World Bank, former Vice Minister of Higher Education in Columbia

NYT bestselling author. Bylines: @NYTimes @NYMag @TheAtlantic @WSJ. Advisor, @ASU. Founder, @AcademyHigherEd. Editor, Next newsletter. Co-host, @futureupodcast.

Marcelo Knobel was the 12th Rector of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in Brazil, where he is now a Full Professor of Physics.

Professor of higher education policy and management at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires

Professor Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University School of Governance, Organisation Science.

Higher education research professor and policy analyst

Mary Wright is Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning, Executive Director of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, and a Professor (Research) in the Department of Sociology, all at Brown University. She is also a former president (2017-18) of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, the U.S. professional association for educational development.

Postdoctoral researcher in education from Chile’s Nucleo Milenio de Educacion Superior

Senior Economist at the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions & Cities

She/Her. Graphic Designer, Higher Education Strategy Associates

She/Her. Research Associate, Higher Education Strategy Associates

Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University