Notes on Contributors
Jean Chambaz
was elected First President of Sorbonne University on 11th December 2017. He was President of Pierre and Marie Curie University between 2012 and 2017. He was previously Vice President for Research and then Vice President for Resources. Professor of Cell Biology at the Pierre et Marie Curie Faculty of Medicine, Jean Chambaz was Head of the Endocrine Biochemistry Department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. In 1999, he created a joint Inserm-UPMC research unit in the field of intestinal metabolism and differentiation, which in 2007 was merged into the Cordeliers Research Centre, of which he was then deputy director. In 2005, he created the UPMC Doctoral Training Institute. From 2008 to 2011 he chaired the Council for Doctoral Education of the European University Association (EUA). He has been a member of the EUA board since 2015. He was president of the Coordination of French Research-Intensive Universities (CURIF) from 2014 to 2018. He was elected head of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) in 2018.
Christine Clerici
was elected First President of the University of Paris on the 21st of June 2019. She was President of Paris Diderot University between 2014 and 2019. She is also President of CURIF, the Coordination of French Research-Intensive Universities and a member of the College of Ethics of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. She defended her doctoral thesis in Medicine in 1984 and in Science in 1990. After specializing in pneumology, she became a hospital practitioner in functional explorations. She was appointed Professor of Physiology in 1995 and joined the Faculty of Medicine of Paris Diderot University in 2002. From 2005, Christine Clerici led the Department of Physiology-Functional Explorations for Adults and Children at Bichat and Louis-Mourier Hospitals. As a member of the Inserm unit “Pathophysiology and Epidemiology of Respiratory Failure”, her research focuses on the mechanisms involved in the reduction of pulmonary edema lesions, including in vitro and in vivo models of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Luiz Cláudio Costa
is Full Professor and Former Rector of the University Federal of Viçosa, Brazil. He was previously Member of the Brazilian National Council for Education (2011–2012), Vice President of the Pisa Board (Programme for International Student Assessment) of OECD, from 2012 to 2016; Brazilian Secretary of Higher Education (2011–2012); President of the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP) from 2012 to 2014, Vice-Minister of Education from 2014–2016; Minister of Education between March and April 2015. He has been President of IESB University since March 2021, and President of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence since May 2018.
Futao Huang
is Professor at the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan. Before he going to Japan in 1999, he taught and conducted research in several Chinese universities. His research interests include the internationalization of higher education, the academic profession, and higher education in East Asia. He has published widely in the Chinese, English, and Japanese languages. He is the editor of Higher Education Forum, which is included in Scopus, and a member of Advisory Editorial Boards of Higher Education, the Journal of Studies in International Education, the International Journal of Educational Development, and the Policy Review in Higher Education, etc. Currently, he is also guest professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and adjunct professor at Zhejiang University, China.
Eric W. Kaler
served as the 16th President of the University of Minnesota from 2011 to 2019. He became President Emeritus and Professor in 2019. Prior to returning to the University of Minnesota, Dr. Kaler was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Stony Brook University. Dr. Kaler received his bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1978 and his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1982. He taught at the University of Washington and the University of Delaware, where he was the Dean of the College of Engineering. Dr. Kaler is a world-renowned scholar in the field of surfactant and colloid science and engineering. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2010. In 2014 he was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his work as both an engineer and an educational leader. He is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Zhongqin Lin
is President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Professor Lin is on the editorial board of many international and national journals including ASME Trans., JSME, and the International Journal of Sustainable Design. He plays a major role in numerous professional organizations such as the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. He is a member of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council of China, and also serves as a member of the International Advisory Committee of College of Engineering, the University of Michigan.
Nian Cai Liu
is currently the Director of the Centre for World-Class Universities and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. His research interests include world-class universities and research universities, university evaluation and academic ranking, research evaluation and science policy, and the globalization and internationalization of higher education. He moved to the field of educational research in 1999, before which he was a professor in polymer science and engineering. He did his undergraduate study in chemistry at Lanzhou University of China and obtained his doctoral degree in polymer science and engineering from Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada. He is on the editorial/advisory boards of several international and national journals.
Simon Marginson
is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher with Higher School of Economics in Moscow. CGHE is a funded 2015–2023 research partnership of six U.K. and nine international universities conducting project research on global, national and local aspects of higher education. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, higher education in East Asia, global science, and higher education and social inequality. Recent books are Changing Higher Education for a Changing World, edited with Claire Callender and William Locke (Bloomsbury, 2020) and High Participation Systems of Higher Education, edited with Brendan Cantwell and Anna Smolentseva (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Brajesh Panth
is Chief, Education Sector Group of the Asian Development Bank. He has over 25 years of experience in the education sector covering all levels. He was a senior education specialist for the World Bank.
Gerard A. Postiglione
is Emeritus Professor, Honorary Professor, and former Chair Professor in Higher Education in the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong, and coordinator of the Consortium for Research on Higher Education in Asia. His scholarship includes 20 books and over 150 articles and chapters. His books include Mass Higher Education in East Asia, Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education, Asian Higher Education, and Society, Culture, Education and Globalization in Asia. He has been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, Department for International Development (U.K.), Institute of International Education (U.S.), International Development Research Centre (CA), Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Bank, and other international agencies. He has advised major international foundations, including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Ford Foundation.
Jamil Salmi
is a global tertiary education expert providing policy advice to governments, universities, professional associations, multilateral development banks, and bilateral cooperation agencies. Until January 2012, he was the World Bank’s tertiary education coordinator. Over the last twenty-five years, he has provided advice on tertiary education development, financing reforms, and strategic planning to governments and university leaders in more than 100 countries all over the world. He is Emeritus Professor of higher education policy at Diego Portales University in Chile and Research Fellow at Boston College’s Centre for Higher Education. He is also a member of the International Quality Assurance Advisory Group, Emeritus Advisor on the President’s Council at Olin College of Engineering, and chair of the Board of the Chilean EdTech startup u-planner. His 2009 book is The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities. His 2011 book, co-edited with Professor Phil Altbach, was entitled The Road to Academic Excellence: the Making of World-Class Research Universities. His latest book, Tertiary Education and the Sustainable Development Goals, was published in August 2017. He holds a Master in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in development studies from the University of Sussex.
Sebastian Stride
is a founding partner of SIRIS Academic, a hybrid research centre and consulting company based in Barcelona. Before this he worked for 15 years as an archaeologist in Uzbekistan, at the heart of the Silk Road, at the time of the collapse of the Soviet system of higher education and research. During this period, he helped set up and coordinate international partnerships between the Uzbek Academy of Sciences and research teams from the rest of the world in order to save and systematize Soviet knowledge on Central Asia. SIRIS Academic was born out of this experience to help institutions question their models, redefine their vision and mission and rethink their strategy. Currently SIRIS Academic works with over 100 universities, research institutions, public administrations, government agencies and charities in 25 countries, as well as being a scientific partner in various Horizon 2020 research projects.
Lin Tian
is a PhD candidate in the Centre for World-Class Universities (CWCU) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She is also a Research Associate on CGHE’s global higher education engagement research programme. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, she worked in Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a research assistant (2014–2015) and began to pursue her doctoral degree there from 2016. Currently, her research interests include the functions of world-class universities and the internationalization of higher education.
Christine A. Victorino
serves as Associate Chancellor at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Dr. Victorino serves as a principal advisor to university leadership and plays a key role in developing and executing UCR’s strategic vision and goals. Dr. Victorino completed her PhD in Education at UC Santa Barbara and holds an adjunct faculty appointment in UCR’s Graduate School of Education.
Qi Wang
is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), and a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Higher Education, Boston College. She completed her MA and PhD studies at the Department of Education, University of Bath, U.K., from September 2002 to November 2008. She joined SJTU in May 2009 and works at the Centre for World-Class Universities. Her research interests include building world-class universities, employability management and skill training, and globalization and education development. Her current research focuses on building world-class research universities from a theoretical and comparative perspective, and in particular how different governments and universities in East Asia and Europe adopt policies to implement this global aspiration.
Kim A. Wilcox
was appointed University of California Riverside’s (UCR) ninth chancellor in August 2013. During his tenure, UCR has seen transformative growth including the establishment of new schools of medicine and public policy. Over the last four years, UCR has grown its faculty by over 200, including two Nobel Laureates, while increasing the racial, ethnic, and gender diversity among incoming faculty members. Under Professor Wilcox’s leadership, UCR has become the nation’s fastest-rising university and a model for achieving student success. UCR is one of few institutions nationwide to eliminate graduation-rate gaps across income levels and ethnicity. A first-generation college graduate, Professor Wilcox received his B.A. in audiology and speech sciences from Michigan State University, and master’s and doctoral degrees in speech and hearing science from Purdue University. He was formerly Provost at Michigan State and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas.
Mark S. Wrighton
is Chancellor Emeritus and the first holder of the James and Mary Wertsch Distinguished University Professorship at Washington University in St. Louis. He served as the 14th Chancellor for 24 years, 1995–2019. From 1972 until 1995, he was on the faculty of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as Provost 1990–1995. During his tenure as Chancellor, Washington University made significant progress in the quality of the undergraduate student body, campus improvement, resource development, and international engagement. New programmes developed during Wrighton’s chancellorship include the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Centre, the International Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, the Living Earth Collaborative, the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, and the Institute for Public Health.
Yan Wu
is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for World-Class Universities (CWCU) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). She has been in the ranking team at CWCU since 2005. She obtained her bachelor (2000) and master degree (2003) both in Philosophy from East China Normal University. Her primary research interests include the ranking and evaluation of universities. She had been responsible for the Global Research University Profiles (GRUP) project, which started in 2011 and has been developing a database on the facts and figures of around 1200 research universities in the world. The database has been used to produce much more comprehensive and customized comparisons of research universities at a global level. Since 2016, She has been responsible for organizing the biennial International Conference on World-Class Universities.
Akiyoshi Yonezawa
is Professor and Vice-Director, International Strategy Office, Tohoku University. With a background in sociology, he mainly conducts research on comparative higher education policy – especially focusing on world-class universities, internationalization and public-private relationships in higher education. He established his expertise in higher education policy and management through working experience at Nagoya University, OECD, and the University of Tokyo, etc. He is a board member at Japan Association for Higher Education Research and at Japan Comparative Education Society. His recent co-edited book Researching Higher Education in Asia (Springer, 2018) was granted the “Best Book Award 2019” from the Comparative and International Education Society (SIG Higher Education).