| Ailsa Lamont, Director and Founder, Pomegranate Global and Co-founder, CANIE: Climate Action Network for International Educators
After 30 years of professional experience spanning capacity building, social innovation and international education, including international director and PVCI roles at three Australian universities, Ailsa founded Pomegranate Global in 2016 to support the international education sector to take greater action on climate change.
Ailsa has trained with The Climate Reality Project, former US Vice President Al Gore's foundation to catalyse a global solution to the climate crisis. Based in Melbourne, her work focuses on helping institutions take practical action with real impact. She is also Co-Founder of CANIE: Climate Action Network for International Educators.
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| Professor Ajit Rangnekar, Director General, Research and Innovation Circle of HyderabadAjit Rangnekar is the Director General of Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad, a Telangana Government initiative to take Innovation in Agriculture, Health and Sustainability to Market. He also runs the Hyderabad chapter of Social Venture Partners, an organisation which provides pro bono advice to NGOs to scale up their impact.
He was previously Dean of Indian School of Business, India's highest ranked Business School. He has been a member of many global committees in Business Education, and advises Boards of Foundations and Social Ventures.
Prior to ISB, he was in HongKong for over 20 years, 14 of those with Price Waterhouse Consulting, handling various roles including Country Head, first of PW and then of PwC Consulting practice, and East Asia Head of PwC Telecomm practice and of Learning and Development.
He is a graduate of IIT, Bombay, and did his post graduation in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.
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| Professor Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Glasgow Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli is a graduate of the University who began his post as Principal on 1 October 2009. He was knighted in June 2017 for services to higher education.
Sir Anton Muscatelli studied at the University, where he graduated MA in Political Economy and with a PhD in Economics. He was a lecturer in Economics from 1984 and Daniel Jack Professor of Economics from 1992 until 2007. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, 2000 to 2004, and Vice-Principal (Strategy, Budgeting and Advancement) from 2004 until 2007. He then moved to Heriot-Watt University where he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor from 2007 to 2009. He was knighted for services to higher education in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2017.
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| Janet Ilieva, Director and Founder, Education InsightJanet Ilieva is founder and director of Education Insight, a research consultancy specialising in international higher education.
Janet started her career as a university lecturer in economics before joining the British Council in 2004, to lead the department's work for higher education research. Janet joined the Higher Education Funding Council for England in May 2013 as head of the HEFCE Observatory. Janet is a member of UNESCO's Expert panel on TNE and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of International Students. She advises on the Philippine - UK Transnational Education Programme run by the British Council and the Commission for Higher Education of the Philippines.
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| Professor Simon Marginson, Director, Centre for Global Higher Education
Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), 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 research partnership of five UK and nine international universities with £9 million in funding for 16 projects on global, national and local aspects of higher education in 2015-2023. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, higher education in East Asia, and higher education and social inequality. He is currently preparing an integrated theorisation of higher education. He Co-Chaired the UK Higher Education Commission Inquiry into Education Exports which reported in 2018.
His most 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).
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| Simon Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, FutureLearnSimon Nelson is Chief Executive of FutureLearn, the leading social learning platform and first UK-based provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which has now evolved to offer fully online degrees and microcredentials. Previously of the BBC, Simon has a background in digital disruption as a pioneer in taking media brands and content online.
Formed in December 2012 by The Open University, FutureLearn is now jointly owned by The Open University and The SEEK Group. FutureLearn has over 10 million learners signed up worldwide and partners with 170+ industry-leading institutions around the globe, including 25% of the world’s top universities.
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| Professor Sir Peter Gregson, Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor, Cranfield UniversityProfessor Sir Peter Gregson is Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University. He has previously been President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University and received a Knighthood for Services to Higher Education in 2011.
He was Chair of the Milton Keynes 2050 Futures Commission. He is a Director of SEMLEP and is convenor of the Oxford-Cambridge Innovation Arc LEP Directors Group. He is leading the Universities UK task group on security matters.
He has been Non-Executive Director of Rolls-Royce Group plc, Strategic Advisor to Lockheed Martin UK and served on the Councils of The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils.
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| Phil Baty, Chief Knowledge Officer, Times Higher Education
Phil Baty is an authority on university performance and strategy, with 23 years of experience in global higher education, including a decade as Editor of the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings and its derivative analyses. He is an award-winning journalist; a sought-after speaker and commentator and he created the THE World Academic Summit and THE’s global summits series. He tweets from @Phil_Baty
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| Professor Shearer West, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Nottingham
Professor Shearer West is President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. She has held a number of significant leadership roles in universities and higher education, including Head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham, Head of the Humanities Division at Oxford University and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sheffield. She also spent four years as Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council where she chaired the Research Directors Group for Research Councils UK.
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| Steve Berridge, Vice-President, Future Students and International, Victoria UniversitySteve Berridge is Vice-President, Future Students and International at Victoria University and is also a member of the University’s Senior Executive Group. His office has a has a broad range of responsibilities: through its 180+ staff, the group leads strategy and operations on a number of critical external-facing functions in local and global contexts.
Steve is an international specialist with over twenty years’ experience gained through leadership roles in the dynamic, complex and endlessly fascinating world of international education.
Following an early teaching career, Steve has played key management roles in both the public and private education sectors in the UK and Australia.
He joined Victoria University in 2010 from the University of Westminster in London, one of the UK's most internationally active universities, where he was Director of International Education for five years.
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| Rachel Hall, Editor, GuardianRachel Hall is the editor of the Guardian's Universities section. She commissions, edits and writes news, features and opinion on higher education policy and campus life.
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| Vivienne Stern, Director, Universities UK InternationalVivienne is the Director of Universities UK International (UUKi) which represents UK universities around the world and works to enable them to flourish internationally.
Prior to her role in UUKi, Vivienne was Head of Political Affairs at Universities UK. In this role she led the sector's response to several major pieces of legislation relating to universities, including the Higher Education Act 2004. She previously worked in the UK Parliament for the Chair of the Education and Skills Select Committee, and as a higher education policy specialist working on topics including quality, student experience, innovation and university-business links.
She is a Director of Universities UK; a member of the Board of the UK India Research and Innovation Initiative and the Strategic Partnerships in Higher Education Fund; she is a member of the British Council's Education Advisory Group and a number of other Boards and Committees.
She is a graduate in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.
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