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INTERNATIONALPRESIDENTIAL FORUM ONGLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES

Social Responsibilities of Higher Education &Strategic Global Partnership

APRIL 11~13, 2016 GRAND HYATT SEOUL & KAIST, KOREA

2016

FORUM BOOK

INTERNATIONALPRESIDENTIAL FORUM ONGLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES

Social Responsibilities of Higher Education &Strategic Global Partnership

APRIL 11~13, 2016 GRAND HYATT SEOUL & KAIST, KOREA

2016

Sponsored by

Sung-Mo KangChair of IPFGRUKAIST President

Sung-Hyon MyaengCo-Chair of IPFGRU

Associate Vice PresidentKAIST International Office

ORGANIZERS

CONTENTS

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PREFACE

PROGRAM

Sung-Mo Kang

INTRODUCTIONSung-Hyon Myaeng

PANEL DISCUSSION I Shared Challenges & Responsibilities from Global Perspective

Fostering an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Israel: The Role of the Government and the Contribution of The TechnionPeretz Lavie

Augmentation of Entrepreneurial Education at KAIST: K-SchoolHee Yoon Lee

Universities and Innovation-Driven Growth: the Case of Aalto UniversityTuula Teeri

Shared Challenges and Responsibilities from a Global Perspective: University of WarwickStuart Croft

The Role of Higher Education in Times of Socio-Economic Structural ChangeAtsushi Seike

The Role of Universities in Public SpaceTomas Zima

PLENARY SESSION I Seeking a New Model of Research University in New Era

University-Industry Collaboration: Human Capital Development as a Core PriorityFeridun Hamdullahpur

Industrial Collaboration as a Success Factor for a Rapidly Developing UniversityBertil Andersson

Dublin City University - Ireland’s University of EnterpriseBrian MacCraith

Connecting to the Future TogetherDong-Myun Lee

Hyundai Vision for New Technology InnovationTae Won Lim

Technological Society and Social EnterprisesHyun Chun Jung

SPECIAL SESSION University-Industry Collaboration

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Strategic Partnerships and Sustainable DevelopmentHans Jürgen Prömel

The New Research University in Global PerspectiveHoward Gillman

Brainpower of the Nation and Innovation Powerhouse – the Case of UTMWahid Omar

From Global Students to Global Institutions: Enabling Partnerships for the 21st Century and BeyondJoanna Newman

Social Responsibilities: The Focus of Higher Education in the 21st CenturyTimothy W. Tong

PANEL DISCUSSION II Strategic Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Fostering of Creative Talents, and the Social Responsibility of Research Universities in the New EraSung-Mo Kang

Higher Education, Innovation and Technology – Changing Dynamics of Hong KongTony F. Chan

A Hokkaido University That Contributes to the Resolution of Global IssuesIchiro Uyeda

National R&D Programs for Society in Korea: How to Challenge Social IssuesSeung Hyeon Moon

University Partnerships for International Collaboration: Addressing Global Challenges and Enriching Student and Faculty ExperiencesJulie Mostov

MOOCs: What After the Hype ? Vincent Blondel

GENERAL SESSION Insights into Higher Education: Trends & Development

How to Prepare Our Universities for the New Era of Industry 4.0?Jacques Biot

PLENARY SESSION II Seeking a New Model of Research Universities in New Era

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PREFACE

Higher education has long been an agent of change for individuals and for society. In particular, research universities have created new values and momentum for the betterment of lives around the world.

Today’s economy has become more technologically complex and the world continues to evolve rapidly. We face challenges of low growth, rising inequality, youth unemployment, and an aging popu-lation among others. Undeniably, higher education is losing its driving force as a mechanism for social mobility. Socio-economic global pressures are forcing higher educational institutions to re-define their educational strategies and responsibilities from institutional, social, and global perspectives.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a new value to address the social and global challenges. Successful corporations and entrepreneurs take on tough challenges relating to issues such as poverty, health, and education. And CSR comes to play an essential role in creating solutions that governments can’t afford to do.

Unlike CSR, the notion of University Social Responsibility (USR) has not yet been significantly raised. I believe that it is never too late to acknowledge the imperativeness of USR, and we should do our part in boosting economic competitiveness and individual success. When innovators at universities work on urgent issues and find creative solutions for those in need, a virtuous cycle will set cohesive economic growth into motion.

I believe this 2016 International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities will inspire collaborative thinking to enhance social responsibility and global strategic partnership in highe r educa-tion. Thus we in higher education will find a common vision for a better society.

Sung-Mo KangPresident of KAISTChair of IPFGRU

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INTRODUCTION

The International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities, organized and hosted by KAIST since 2008, promotes excellence and innovation in higher education. It brings together leaders of lead-ing research universities and key policymakers in private and public sectors from across the world to share their educational visions, missions, and values for now and in the future.

The 2016 Forum, under the theme “Social Responsibilities of Higher Education and Strategic Global Partnership,” will provide an opportunity to share ideas on university commitments and innovative strategies with regard to global partnerships in enhancing universities’ social as well as academic excellence.

We all believe higher education not only holds the key to the future well-being of individuals and socie-ties but is also instrumental in ensuring a sustainable future. The global economy increasingly expects research universities to be drivers of change. As technology transforms knowledge and makes it widely accessible, new challenges and opportunities are presented to research universities. Global mobility continues to expand for students and higher educational institutions. It provides opportunities to build up individual competitiveness as well as institutional reputations. It comes with new partnership oppor-tunities, but also with competition among peers. Research universities need to diversify funding sources to embrace private sectors. We need to collaborate beyond borders. Moreover, as higher education increasingly highlights entrepreneurship and start-ups for the creation of new knowledge, our relationship with industry is ever evolving. This increasing demand to build close partnerships with the private sector reinforces the role of research universities as drivers of innovation and growth. Faced with this new environment, research universities should critically assess their institutions and develop new visions.

At this Forum, we want to redefine the social responsibilities of higher education and strategic partner-ships on a global scale and collectively search for a way to create a sustainable global society. Sharing your institution’s experiences and efforts toward this agenda will be inspirational to all participants. The 2016 event will be an extension of the 2015 Forum, which was rescheduled due to the unexpected MERS-CoV outbreak in July in Korea. This upcoming Forum will be an opportunity to reaffirm research universities’ social responsibilities and the urgency of global collaboration in responding to challenges arising from public health, disaster management, sustainability, and other issues that plague our well-being.

I am certain your participation will contribute to sustaining the vigor of higher education and the impact of research universities.

Sung-Hyon MyaengAssociate Vice President of KAIST International OfficeCo-Chair of IPFGRU

Social Responsibilities of Higher Education and Strategic Global Partnership

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PROGRAM Subject to change without prior notice.

April 11 (Monday)

April 12 (Tuesday)Time Event Venue

08:30 ~ 08:50

Grand Ballroom

Grand Ballroom

Grand Ballroom

Panel Discussion IShared Challenges & Responsibilities from Global Perspective

Moderated by École Polytechnique de Montréal President Christophe Guy

08:50 ~ 09:30

09:30 ~ 09:45

Opening by Co-Chair of IPFGRU, Associate Vice President of KAIST International OfficeSung-Hyon MyaengOpening Remarks by Chair of IPFGRU, KAIST President Sung-Mo KangWelcoming Speech by Myung-Ja Kim, Former Minister of Environment and President-Elect of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz LavieFostering an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Israel: The Role of the Government and the Contribution of The Technion

Q&A with Discussions

KAIST Vice President Hee Yoon LeeAugmentation of Entrepreneurial Education at KAIST: K-School

Break

09:45 ~ 10:00

Plenary Session ISeeking a New Model of Research University in New Era

Moderated by University of Bradford Vice-Chancellor Brian Cantor

Time Event Venue

16:00 ~ 16:20

16:20 ~ 16:40

16:40 ~ 17:00

17:00 ~ 17:20

17:20 ~ 17:40

17:40 ~ 18:00

10:00 ~ 13:30 Seoul City Tour

Grand Foyer + Regency

Korea FurnitureMuseum

18:30 ~ 20:30

18:00 ~ 18:30

Welcoming Reception & DinnerDinner Speech by Former Minister of Science and Technology Kun Mo Chung

Namsan I+II

* Light lunch will be provided.


University of Waterloo President Feridun HamdullahpurUniversity-Industry Collaboration: Human Capital Development as a Core Priority

Nanyang Technological University President Bertil AnderssonIndustrial Collaboration as a Success Factor for a Rapidly Developing University

Dublin City University President Brian MacCraithDublin City University - Ireland’s University of Enterprise

KT Institute of Convergence Technology CTO & Senior Executive Vice-President Dong-Myun LeeConnecting to the Future Together

Hyundai Motor Central Advanced Research & Engineering Institute CTO Tae Won LimHyundai Vision for New Technology Innovation

SK SUPEX Council Senior Vice-President & Head of Corporate Contribution Hyun Chun JungTechnological Society and Social Enterprises

Special SessionUniversity-Industry Collaboration

Moderated by KAIST Vice President of Planning and Budget Seung Bin Park

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Aalto University President Tuula TeeriUniversities and Innovation-Driven Growth: the Case of Aalto University10:00 ~ 10:15

Grand Foyer + Regency

Grand Ballroom

Grand Ballroom

TU Darmstadt President Hans Jürgen PrömelStrategic Partnerships and Sustainable Development

UC Irvine Chancellor Howard GillmanThe New Research University in Global Perspective

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Vice-Chancellor Wahid OmarBrainpower of the Nation and Innovation Powerhouse – the Case of UTM

11:00 ~ 11:30

11:30 ~ 11:40

11:40 ~ 13:00

13:00 ~ 13:15

13:15 ~ 13:30

13:30 ~ 13:45

University of Warwick Vice-Chancellor Stuart CroftShared Challenges and Responsibilities from a Global Perspective: University of Warwick

Keio University President Atsushi SeikeThe Role of Higher Education in Times of Socio-Economic Structural Change

Charles University in Prague Rector Tomas ZimaThe Role of Universities in Public Space


Photo Session

Networking Lunch

10:15 ~ 10:30

10:30 ~ 10:45

10:45 ~ 11:00

Panel Discussion IIStrategic Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Moderated by Elsevier Chairman Youngsuk Chi

Grand Ballroom

Grand Ballroom

King’s College London Vice-Principal Joanna NewmanFrom Global Students to Global Institutions: Enabling Partnerships for the 21st Century and Beyond

Hong Kong Polytechnic University President Timothy W. TongSocial Responsibilities: The Focus of Higher Education in the 21st Century

13:45 ~ 14:00

14:00 ~ 14:15

14:15 ~ 14:45 Q&A with Discussions

14:45 ~ 15:00

15:00 ~ 15:15

15:15 ~ 15:30

15:30 ~ 15:45

15:45 ~ 16:00

16:00 ~ 16:15

16:15 ~ 16:30

Coffee Break

Chair of IPFGRU, KAIST President Sung-Mo KangFostering of Creative Talents, and the Social Responsibility of Research Universities in the New Era

HKUST President Tony F. ChanHigher Education, Innovation and Technology – Changing Dynamics of Hong Kong

Hokkaido University Executive and Vice-President Ichiro UyedaA Hokkaido University That Contributes to the Resolution of Global Issues

GIST President Seung Hyeon MoonNational R&D Programs for Society in Korea: How to Challenge Social Issues

Drexel University Senior Vice-President Julie MostovUniversity Partnerships for International Collaboration: Addressing Global Challenges and Enriching Student and Faculty Experiences

Université Catholique de Louvain Rector Vincent BlondelMOOCs: What After the Hype ?

16:30 ~ 17:00 Discussion

General SessionInsights into Higher Education: Trends & DevelopmentModerated by Technical University of Denmark President Anders Bjarklev

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Grand Ballroom

Regency

18:00 ~ 18:10

17:20 ~ 18:00

Closing Remarks by Chair of IPFGRU, KAIST President Sung-Mo Kang

Gala BanquetDinner Speech by Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning Yanghee Choi

18:40 ~ 20:30


École Polytechnique President Jacques BiotHow to Prepare Our Universities for the New Era of Industry 4.0?

Plenary Session IISeeking a New Model of Research Universities in New Era

Moderated by University of Bradford Vice-Chancellor Brian Cantor

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SPECIAL SESSION

University-Industry Collaboration

University-Industry Collaboration: Human Capital Development as a Core Priority

Abstract

As publics and governments seek economic growth and innovation, the notion of university-industry collaboration is strongly supported. However, it is not always well understood. In my presentation, I will discuss my institution’s approach to university-industry collaboration and reflect on the applicability of this approach across the global post-secondary education sector.

Specifically, I will outline the specific elements of the University of Waterloo’s approach to industry engagement that have led to its global recognition as one of the world’s most innovative universities.The specific elements of Waterloo’s approach to University-Industry collaboration include, but are not limited to:

• Co-operative education • Research partnership • Fostering student-and-alumni entrepreneurship • Intellectual property policy and commercialization • Publications and patents with industry

In particular, I will attempt to explain how human capital development can be adopted as a core priority by univer-sities seeking to develop career-ready graduates. This approach enables the development of innovative, talented students and alumni, positioning regional communities and partnering industries for enhanced growth and dyna-mism.

SPECIAL SESSION 11

Feridun HamdullahpurUniversity of WaterlooPresidentCanada

Social Responsibilities of Higher Education & Strategic Global Partnership

INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUMON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES2016

Biographical Information

Feridun Hamdullahpur was appointed president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo in 2011. A professor of mechanical engineering, Dr. Hamdullahpur earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechani-cal engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, and his PhD in chemical engineering at the Tech-nical University of Nova Scotia.

Throughout his career, spanning over 35 years, Dr. Hamdullahpur has been an active researcher in thermo-fluids and energy engineering, a passionate teacher and an academic administrator. He has authored hundreds of scientific and academic publications and supervised over 50 graduate students. He was named a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in June 2014.

His current focus at the University of Waterloo is expanding its lead in innovation, building on Waterloo’s longstanding and emerging strengths in co-operative education, research, entrepreneurship, and equity. Dr. Hamdullahpur is proud to serve as chair of the U15 group of Canada's research-intensive universities, and serves as vice-chair of the Waterloo Global Science Initiative. In 2015 he was appointed chairman of the new Leadership Council for Digital Infrastructure, an ambitious initiative to build a world-leading digital infrastructure ecosystem for Canada. He is also proud to have been one of ten global university presidents appointed to the United Nations HeforShe Impact 10x10x10 campaign to engage boys and men in the cause of gender equity.

In acknowledgement of President Hamdullahpur’s leadership in education and innovation, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in January 2013.

SPECIAL SESSION 12

Industrial Collaboration as a Success Factor for a Rapidly Developing University

Abstract

The new global environment presents challenges to universities across the world and demands critical assess-ment of institutions of higher education for continued relevance in the 21st century. As national assets for wealth creation, universities produce skilled and talented personnel to fuel the economy and attract business investment into a region. Universities are also expected to create new knowledge, and contribute to innovation to tackle grand challenges confronting mankind. Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore is ranked 13th globally and is also ranked first amongst the world’s best young universities in the QS Top 50 Under 50 rankings in the last two years. NTU also leads in normalised citation impact amongst the top Asian universities.

NTU actively explores cross-disciplinary solutions for the future and has developed joint laboratories with many global industry and research leaders such as BMW, Rolls-Royce, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Robert Bosch and Thales. This plenary shares NTU’s strategies in forging closed partnerships with global industry leaders for knowledge creation and innovation in the highly competitive and globalised economy.

Bertil Andersson Nanyang Technological University PresidentSingapore

SPECIAL SESSION 13




Since becoming President of NTU Singapore in 2011, Professor Bertil Andersson has led the University to global distinction. NTU is the world’s fastest-rising young university and is ranked first among the world’s young univer-sities. It also leads the top Asian universities in normalised research citation impact. In the 2015 QS World University Rankings, NTU is ranked 13th globally.

Professor Andersson has steered NTU’s increasing engagement with South Korea to fuel innovation in science and technology. He has fostered closer ties between NTU and South Korean universities. NTU now has over 30 active agreements with these South Korean partners spanning academic, research and exchange programmes.

One successful tie-up involved a partnership with a spin-off company of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology to design an imaging payload for X-SAT, NTU’s microsatellite that has successfully operated in space. Earlier this year, NTU and one of South Korea’s largest construction firms, Hyundai Engineering & Construction, launched the NTU-Hyundai Urban System Centre to develop sustainable solutions for urban cities.

Before joining NTU as its Provost in 2007, Professor Andersson was Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation (2004-2007), where he consolidated research efforts across 30 European countries, and prior to that Rector (President) of Linköping University (1999-2003).

He has had a longstanding association with the Nobel Foundation, as a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry (1989-1997) and its Chairman (1997). He was also a member of the Nobel Foundation (2000-2006) and held the position of Trustee (2006- 2010).

A Fellow of Imperial College London, Professor Andersson was instrumental in Imperial College London coming to Singapore to jointly establish a medical school with NTU that has introduced novel approaches to medical education in Singapore.

A world-renowned plant biochemist, he has authored more than 300 papers in basic photosynthesis covering topics from photosystem structure to biological membranes and light stress in plants. He received the Austrian Wilhelm Exner Medal for his life-changing work, joining a list of laureates that includes Nobel Prize winners, and holds more than13 honorary doctorates, including an honorary degree from Hanyang University recognising his achievements in biochemistry and his contributions to deepening relations between Singapore and South Korea.

Professor Andersson has served on the boards of several Swedish and international foundations and learned societies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, European Molecular Biology Organisation, Austral-ian Academy of Science, Academia Europaea, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, and Austrian Academy of Sciences.

He is a research adviser to the Swedish government and was, between 2004 and 2009, the Vice President of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) of the European Commission in Brussels. He has also been an adviser to business activities in the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals sector. In Singapore, he serves on the Governing Board of the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, and is a Board member of A*STAR Singapore. He was previously a member of the Singapore National Research Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board.

SPECIAL SESSION 14

Dublin City University - Ireland’s University of Enterprise

Abstract

Dublin City University is proactively engaging with industry and its commitment toward innovation and entrepre-neurship. A key element of engagement is DCU’s Enterprise Advisory Board, which informs the university’s strategy in terms of its degree portfolio, research agenda and graduate attributes.

DCU’s industry-academic partnerships are reflected in a number of ways. All of the university’s research centers are based on industry-academic partnerships. For example, the Insight Centre for Data Analytics is considered the leading center in Europe in data analytics. It has already attracted €88 million in investment, with more than 50 percent of that funding coming from Science Foundation Ireland. It is home to more than 350 researchers and has over 40 industry partners, putting it at the heart of global data analytics research in Ireland.

We also run the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce, an industry-led research center that focuses on solving short-to-medium-term problems defined by its consortium of industry partners. Its primary focus is on exploring the trust, security and privacy issues involved with migrating business services to the Cloud. The Biomedical Diagnostics Institute is an ABC (Academic-Business-Clinical) research institute that takes a multidis-ciplinary approach to developing point-of-care diagnostic platforms and theranostic devices. The institute has worked closely with companies such as Becton Dickinson, Analog Devices, Johnson & Johnson and Hospira.

In order to further facilitate the university-industry collaboration and meet the needs of industry, DCU consults strongly with industry partners when designing or reviewing curricula for degree programs. For example, a new BSc in data science involved substantial input from IBM, Intel, Accenture and SAS.

To further benefit their future careers, most of DCU’s undergraduate students take on internships for six to nine months in the third year of their degree programs. This enhances the employability of our graduates and deepens industry relationships.

DCU's capacity to work on a larger scale with industry has been enhanced considerably by the recent opening of DCU Alpha, an Innovation Campus close to the main academic campus. DCU Alpha leverages the university’s research expertise in renewable energy, water science and technology, Internet of Things, data analytics, and sensor technology among others. Companies that have located there include Siemens, Veolia and Fujitsu. The motivation behind DCU Alpha is engagement with companies. Its proximity facilitates speedy access to research facilities and equipment and enhances the ability to develop research collaborations.

DCU aims to make it as easy as possible for companies to do business with, and access intellectual property from, the university. Its fast-track licensing scheme, Licence Express, offers access for companies to a range of technologies that are still at the developmental stage but need further industrial investment to ensure that their continued development is aligned with commercial needs.

Brian MacCraithDublin City UniversityPresidentIreland

SPECIAL SESSION 15




Brian MacCraith holds a personal chair in physics at Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland. He is renowned internationally for his research on optical chemical sensors, nanobiotechnology, and biosensors. He was found-ing director of both the National Centre for Sensor Research and the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute at the university. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, a fellow of SPIE (the international photonics organization), and a fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineers.

In July 2010, he commenced his role as president of DCU, a position that he will hold for 10 years. As president, he introduced DCU’s current strategic plan, ‘Transforming Lives and Societies’, which emphasizes DCU’s role as a research-intensive university of enterprise, an engaged university, and a university that focuses on innovation across its teaching, learning, research and civic engagement activities.

In October 2015, Professor MacCraith established DCU’s first major fundraising campaign “Shaping the Future”, a €100m campaign focused on the strategic advancement of the university across the areas of Research and Innovation, Teaching and Learning, Human Capital and the Student Experience. He has had a substantial involvement in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education activities and initiatives for many years. He is chair of the Board of SciFest and also chaired the National STEM Education Review Group on behalf of the Irish Government.

SPECIAL SESSION 16

Connecting to the Future Together

Abstract

We have become accustomed to innovation and been seeing a series of significant innovations. Representa-tively, the progression from those 2G cellular phones to today’s 4G (LTE) smart phones is truly a history of innovation. Advanced hardware technology coupled with fast mobile networking environment has enabled the advent of the smartphone era that we’re living in today. To this end, KT has materialized 1Gbps transfer speed in both wired and wireless networks, so smartphones and PCs of today no longer get bogged down by sluggish transfer speed. Such innovation wouldn’t have been possible without close cooperation and boundary-defying fusion of efforts from industry, academia, and government.

We’re now about to enter the 5G era. 5G will help a variety of innovative and fanciful services created such as smart factory, robotic surgeries and so on. In order to realize these innovations, KT will leverage synergy from external collaboration. By working closely together with various companies, universities, and research institu-tions, we hope to remain at the forefront of ushering in the 5G era.

This talk focuses on KT’s evolution from a network company to a converged IT company, KT’s major innovative services, and how KT is collaborating with industry and academia.


Dongmyun Lee is currently the CTO and the head of the Institute of Convergence Technology in KT. He joined KT in 1991 and has worked on the networking areas including ATM, broadband network management, CDN, and enterprise total service businesses until 2002. After leading the technology strategy team during 2003~4, he has been in charge of BcN (Broadband Convergence Network) group in KT until 2007. During 2008~2010, he led the development of next generation residential and enterprise services. Starting from 2011, he has been in charge of the technology strategy and the network/service innovation initiative in kt.

He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from the Seoul National University in 1985 and the MS & PhD degrees in electrical engineering from KAIST in 1987 and 1991, respectively. His main research areas were real-time distributed operating system and parallel computing.

Dong-Myun LeeKT Institute of Convergence Technology CTO & Senior Executive Vice-PresidentKorea

SPECIAL SESSION 17

Hyundai Vision for New Technology Innovation

Abstract

Automobile technologies have been remarkably evolved in recent decades. As a result of the technology evolu-tion, eco-friendly vehicles such as BEV(Battery Electric Vehicle), HEV(Hybrid Electric Vehicle), PHEV(Plug in HEV) and FCEV(Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle) and Advanced Driver Assistance System have been commercialized since early 2000s.

However, due to the strong demands for cleaner, safer and more convenient vehicles from our society as well as customers, automotive industry has been under the heavy pressure to develop advanced and innovative technologies for eco-friendly vehicles, autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles and mobility service.In this presentation, the aforementioned issues will be reviewed and Hyundai’s strategies for collaboration with universities will be introduced.


Tae Won Lim currently serves as the senior vice president of Research & Development Division of Hyundai Motor Company (HMC). He had developed Materials for Powertrain as well as Environmentally Friendly Tech-nologies including fuel cell, battery, three way catalyst, and had a great role in world-first commercialization of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle, after he acquired PhD at State University of New York at Buffalo. Recently, he is making an effort to develop innovative mobility technology such as autonomous vehicle, human centered UX, robot, etc. in Central Advanced Research and Engineering Institute.

Tae Won LimCentral Advanced Research & Engineering Institute Hyundai MotorCTOKorea

SPECIAL SESSION 18

Technological Society and Social Enterprises

Abstract

Since the industrial revolution, we have witnessed rapid technological advances in every department of our lives. Recently, the velocity and impact of the technological advance are unprecedentedly increasing in the sectors including ICT, brain science, biology transforming the way we live, connect and do businesses.

Technology is a double-edged sword. While we are enjoying various benefits that state of the art technology provides, new problems like cybercrime, replacement of human labor and disclosure of personal information are surfacing. If we focus only on effectiveness, technology can cause new social problems like taking work away from humans, but using it with empathy and devotion, we can accelerate solving the world’s pressing issues.

In dealing with new problems in the age of technological advances, social enterprise can be one of the most effective vehicles in that it tackles social issues in efficient and sustainable manner. With its empathy, social enterprise can also be a significant player in defining the new problems to solve.

In this sense, SK has supported social enterprises as a long-term strategy of its social contribution activities since 2009. SK’s initiative on social enterprise is based on a holistic approach that aims to create a vibrant and robust ecosystem for social enterprises. For example, SK is working with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in offering a full-degree MBA program on social entrepreneurship. Along with rigorous academic training, the curriculum of the program also features special lectures and mentoring by experts to promote the students to strengthen professional capabilities as well as social consciousness.

During this presentation, the roles that social enterprises can play in dealing with today’s social problems will be introduced and the how corporations and research universities can cooperate in supporting social enterprises will be discussed.

Hyun Chun JungSK SUPEX CouncilSenior Vice-President & Head of Corporate Contribution Korea

SPECIAL SESSION 19




Hugh (Hyun Chun) JUNG is Senior Vice President of SK SUPEX Council and leads Corporate Contribution Team. His responsibilities include developing and implementing corporate-wide Sustainability Strategies, CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Programs, Corporate Partnership and effort on promoting Social Entrepreneur-ship. His interests comprise entrepreneurship and business leadership, business ethics, corporate governance, innovation and diversity for sustainability, and technology-based social ventures. Since joining SK Group in 1986, he has held various positions in accounting, finance, procurement, investor relations and business development. Prior to his current role, he served as Chief Procurement Officer of SK Innovation and Chief Financial Officer of SK Energy.

He is the author of a book titled Why am I disappearing? (Leader's Book, 2011), an essay about the value of diversity and tolerance. He also was a contributor of 25 articles to the section Managing Yourself – Mind Manage-ment, Dong-A Business Review (DBR), of which he was a guest member of the editorial board.

Hugh received a BA in Business Administration from Seoul National University in 1986 and completed Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

SPECIAL SESSION 20

PLENARY SESSION I

Seeking a New Model ofResearch University in New Era

Fostering an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Israel: The Role of the Government and the Contribution of The Technion

Abstract

This presentation will describe government and academic programs that facilitated the emergence of the Israeli innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, emphasizing the role of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. A key initiative that fosters I&E in Israel is the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which is responsible for supporting industrial research and development. Specifically, its aim is to support applied academic research that is not yet oriented toward a specific product but already of interest to a business partner, and to bring the research to a maturity phase.

The CSO administers four specific programs: Magnet, which supports pre-competitive R&D jointly proposed by commercial companies and academic researchers; Magneton, which supports existing relationships between industrial partners and academic institutions; Nofar, which supports pure academic or applied research, and Kamin, which helps disseminate and adapt new technologies to industry. All proposals are reviewed for techno-logical feasibility, merit and risks, and for the extent to which they might generate a commercial product. In 1991, the CSO established the Technological Incubators Program, aimed at transforming innovative technological ideas that are too risky and in too early stage for private investments, into viable start-up companies. Currently there are 24 incubators in Israel – 22 of them technological – each handling 10 to 15 projects.

An incubator is a private legal entity, for profit, that supplies its portfolio companies with a work environment, administrative services, technological and business guidance and legal assistance. Incubator licensees are selected through a competitive process open for everyone. From 1991 to 2012, over 1,500 companies have matured and left the incubators. Of these, 60 percent have successfully attracted private investments, and about 40 percent are still up and running. The total cumulative private investment in graduated incubator companies reached over $3.5 billion.

Interacting with government programs, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has played a major role in fostering the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Israel. From its foundation in 1912 and throughout its history, the Technion has understood that part of its mission is to find solutions to national needs. To that end, basic and applied research, both essential to support I& E, were seen as the two sides of the same coin.

Thus, some of its landmark achievements, such as establishing the Faculty of Aeronautical Engineering in 1954 and the Faculties of Medicine and Computer Science and the Microelectronic Institute in 1969, were motivated by urgent national needs. Additional ingredients of success are the involvement of students as researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs, support of risk-taking research, multidisciplinary collaboration, and institutional support of technology transfer.

Recognizing that innovation will come from research teams interacting across disciplines, the Technion estab-lished several virtual multidisciplinary research centers in nanotechnology, energy, autonomous systems, life sciences and engineering, and integrated cancer research. In addition, the Technion offers entrepreneurship programs and incubators, fosters alumni mentorships and encourages students’ interaction with industry. Note-worthy, because Technion graduates since 1995 have founded or led more than 2,000 companies that have created, in Israel alone, 100,000 jobs and brought $30 billion through merging and acquisition.

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Peretz LavieTechnion-Israel Institute of Technology PresidentIsrael


Peretz Lavie received his formal training in sleep research and sleep medicine at the University of Florida and at the UC San Diego, and was a visiting professor at Harvard University. In 1975 he joined the faculty of medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he founded the Sleep Research Laboratory and the Center for Sleep Medicine. He was the dean of medicine from 1993 to 1999 and vice-president for resource development and external relations from 2001 to 2008. In 2009, he was elected president of the Technion and was re-elected for four more years.

Professor Lavie is considered one of the founders of sleep medicine. He has published more than 400 scientific articles and eight books in the field of sleep research and sleep disorders. His book “The Enchanted World of Sleep” has been translated into 15 languages. His research has won prizes, including the Elkeles Prize from Keren Kayemet LeIsrael for the best medical scientist in 2001, the University of Pisa Sleep Award for Best Sleep Researcher in Europe in 2004, the American Society of Sleep Research William Gruen Prize for innovative research in 2006, and the EMET Prize in medicine in 2006, the most prestigious prize for academic achieve-ments in Israel. He was the founder and co-founder of five companies that develop and produce medical devices for sleep medicine and cardiology and provide diagnostic services.



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PANEL DISCUSSION I

Shared Challenges & Responsibilitiesfrom Global Perspective

Augmentation of Entrepreneurial Education at KAIST: K-School

Abstract

Since its establishment in 1971, KAIST has led higher education in Korea by producing well-trained scientists and engineers with advanced degrees essential for the swift growth of industries such as electronics, automo-tives, shipbuilding, steel and others, and by upgrading research to a world-class level. KAIST also became the role model for several newly established science and technology universities, and was well recognized globally. It was ranked the 43rd in the QS world university rankings, and four departments were in the top 20. At the turn of the 21st century, Korean universities had to take on the new challenges of fostering globalization, creativity and entrepreneurship in education.

As the university that leads higher education in Korea, KAIST started addressing those challenges by implement-ing English communication in virtually all classrooms as the starting point of globalization, and establishing a “business economics program” for undergraduates as an introduction to entrepreneurship and the start-up process. Education 3.0, a flipped learning method, was launched by combining e-learning technologies with classroom discussion, problem solving, team learning and team projects to stimulate creativity and to promote innovative thinking. In 2014, a start-up institute was established to create an eco-system that will nurture the successful commercialization of new technologies and ideas.

Entrepreneurship education is important not only to facilitate start-ups but also to understand how to manage existing businesses and increase the significance of basic research to society and commercial interests. However, such education has reached only a limited number of students. To provide an entrepreneurial program for the majority of the students in the Korean culture, a new program called K-School was established indepen-dently from colleges or academic departments at KAIST.

This presentation will discuss current efforts and the future outlook of K-School, which is intended to lead innova-tion of engineering education and to promote transdisciplinary research that will help solve global problems and foster the nation’s economic growth.

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Hee Yoon LeeKAISTVice President of ResearchKorea




Hee Yoon Lee is the Vice President of Research at KAIST. The field of his expertise is in Organic Chemistry and his research interests are in the fields of Natural Product Synthesis, Design of Inhibitors and Receptor Ligands, Development of new Synthetic Methodologies and Strategies.

He was educated in Seoul National University for his bachelor’s and master’s degree and went on to Stanford for his doctorate degree in Chemistry. After receiving his final degree in 1981, he was put right to work as research scientist at SNU Medical School, Columbia University and Merck Research Labs until he joined KAIST in 1994.

Professor Lee served as a consulting professor for companies like SK, Medigen and Hanchem and served on the board of the Korean Chemical Society and Korean Society of Organic Synthesis. He also has membership in the American Chemical Society as well as the Korean Chemical Society.


Universities and Innovation-Driven Growth: the Case of Aalto University

Abstract

Universities have always been accountable to the society. Especially the government-funded public universities should be responsible for tax payers. They are expected to work for increasing the betterment of the society and return it back to the society who supported them university.

In the early days of universities, this task was rather well-defined. Universities were expected to train clergy, physicians, and lawyers to maintain and utilize the best available knowledge. With time, this mission transformed to include the production of new knowledge and the education of the youth for the service of society in a wide range of professions. In this globalized and innovation-driven knowledge economy era, such expectation toward universities has significantly increased. However, the profession has also evolved and its types are much diversi-fied.

The conventional types of professions which used to train students according to the assigned job description is disappearing. The job market is quickly evolving and it seems that there are no stable jobs guaranteed until the retirement.

Today’s universities are expected to educate agile young professional versatile with multi-skills and wide spec-trum of knowledge. Students also should be ready for life-long learning in order to adjust the ever changing new technology and job skills.

When it comes to their own career development, today’s graduates in most fields need to possess the mindset and skills of an entrepreneur, and the ability to embrace multidisciplinary and multicultural collaboration: Discipline-based excellence remains necessary but insufficient. This means that the university professors cannot remain in the mere content-delivery business, they must develop themselves into facilitators of individualized learning paths, into coaches and mentors rather than mere information providers.

The same switch toward an entrepreneurial university can be seen in university research. Mere knowledge and technology transfer are not enough to produce research with the required impact. Rather, universities must be able to break the barriers between traditional disciplines as well as the borders between universities and the rest of the society: The ivory tower must be replaced with an open co-creation and collaboration platform. Universities must learn new ways of working that foster collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Aalto University was founded in 2010 through a merger of three universities to spearhead Finnish university reform and to embody the ideals of the new kind of entrepreneurial research university described above. After six years of operations, Aalto University has formed a unique profile at the intersection of art, science, business and technology. Aalto University has created a thriving, internationally recognized innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem, and one of the largest and liveliest high technology hubs in Northern Europe, in and around the university’s main campus.

This forum provides a great opportunity to reflect the shared challenges, and the novel responsibilities, that research universities face today, and to examine critically and for mutual benefit with the esteemed panelists the approach Aalto University has developed to meet these challenges.

Tuula TeeriAalto University PresidentFinland




Aalto University was founded in 2010 through a merger of three universities to spearhead Finnish university reform and to embody the ideals of the new kind of entrepreneurial research university described above. After six years of operations, Aalto University has formed a unique profile at the intersection of art, science, business and technology. Aalto University has created a thriving, internationally recognized innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem, and one of the largest and liveliest high technology hubs in Northern Europe, in and around the university’s main campus.

This forum provides a great opportunity to reflect the shared challenges, and the novel responsibilities, that research universities face today, and to examine critically and for mutual benefit with the esteemed panelists the approach Aalto University has developed to meet these challenges.


Tuula Teeri received her PhD in genetics from the University of Helsinki in 1987, after which she held a number of research and leadership positions at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, where she was appointed deputy president in 2008. In 2009, she returned to her native Finland as the first president of Aalto University. Her second five-year term as president started in 2014.

During her scientific career she was a pioneer of forest industrial biotechnology and the development of biomi-metic materials. She is the author 184 scientific publications, reviews, reports and patents applications. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Technology Academy Finland, and the Swedish Academy of Technology in Finland. She is a co-founder of SweTree Technologies.

In 2010 President Teeri oversaw the merger of the Helsinki School of Economics, the Helsinki University of Tech-nology and the University of Arts and Design Helsinki into Aalto University. The creation of Aalto University was, and continues to be, the spearhead of the Finnish university reform: the new university was given a national mission to strengthen the innovative capacity of Finland through first-class research, art and education and by integrating the university’s core activities in societal and economic development.


Shared Challenges and Responsibilities from a Global Perspective: University of Warwick

Abstract

Universities aspiring to international greatness use a variety of measures of excellence. National and interna-tional league tables gather data on research citations, Nobel prizes and Fields medals, staff student ratios, the international diversity of staff and students, to produce an approximation of academic quality and a narrative of excellence that acquires a legitimacy through self-congratulatory press-releases and presentations at interna-tional presidents’ fora.

As presidents we will have concerns beyond the league tables: the need for income, whether from tuition, research grants, philanthropy or business ventures, and governments may wish to measure the contribution we make to the economy. For us at Warwick a commitment to Global Research Priorities – solving the problems of the world – is also a priority: our work on antimicrobial resistance for example may have a greater impact on humankind than any ranking we may achieve.

I want to suggest (with reference to Humboldt, Newman and others) a broader social mission of a research-intensive university in the 21st Century. At Warwick we see this as a commitment to community – locally, nation-ally, and globally. We have a duty to attract not the most privileged students in terms of their family and educa-tional background, but those with the greatest aptitude and appetite for study, whatever their origins, and to achieve this we have a program of widening participation, reaching out into local schools.

With over 35% of our students coming from outside the UK our responsibilities go beyond national boundaries. We have an ambition that every student should have the opportunity to become a global citizen: to have an understanding of the world and its problems, to be competent to work effectively anywhere in the world in teams of those from different background and cultures, and to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences. Student exchanges and study abroad support this ambition, and we have created a number of other programs. Warwick in Africa and the Laksh Program in India which enable our students to spend a period of time volunteer-ing in schools; our engineering undergraduates have the option to do a module in the field in Uganda or Tanzania looking at simple sustainable solutions for power and water in rural areas; our Undergraduate Research Student Scheme supports students to travel to over 30 countries to undertake a supervised research project.

We also reach out with scholarships for students from developing countries: Chancellor’s International Scholar-ships and joint Chevening awards. We contribute to research capacity building through CARTA, to developing leadership through IPLM, and to the development of professional services in universities in Central Asia with Tempus and Erasmus funding.

We will only fulfil our full potential as great universities if we add social responsibility to outstanding research and teaching quality as measures of excellence.

Stuart CroftUniversity of Warwick Vice-Chancellor UK





Professor Croft joined Warwick in January 2007 as Professor of International Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PaIS). Prior to that he was Professor of International Relations and Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham.

Professor Croft was appointed as Warwick’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (Arts and Social Sciences) at Warwick in 2011. In this role, he had responsibility for the University’s Arts and Social Sciences research strategy, including the development of research opportunities and collaborations. He also provided academic leadership for the University’s Fundraising and Development activities, and our European strategy.

His research focuses on the political and societal impact of security policy. His publications in that field include the books “Securitizing Islam” and "Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror". He is the series editor for Palgrave’s New Security Challenges list and until 2004 he was co-editor of Contemporary Security Policy. He currently directs the Science and Security Program for the ESRC and was Director of the ESRC’s New Security Challenges Program from 2003 to 2010.

In 2006 he was elected as an Academician in the Academy of Social Sciences and in the same year, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. From January 2009 he was the Chair of the British International Studies Association, becoming President of the Association in 2011. He was appointed to the Council of the ESRC in 2011, and in 2013, was the Ngee Ann Kongsi Professor of International Relations at the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, at NTU in Singapore.

Professor Croft will succeed Professor Sir Nigel Thrift as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick on February 1, 2016.


The Role of Higher Education in Times of Socio-EconomicStructural Change

Abstract

Keio University was founded in 1858 in order to contribute to society and cope with the drastic social transforma-tion taking place in Japan through education. Our aim is to carry out this founding principle established in Edo era in addressing the social and global challenges we face today.

This is one of the most important social responsibilities of higher education as we are experiencing significant challenges such as global warming, an aging population, increased natural disasters, and rapid globalization of the economy, all related to the sustainability of society. The aim of this paper is to discuss sustainability by using aging population as an example.

An aging population is a common phenomenon in most developed countries. Especially in Japan, the population’s aging presents unprecedented socio-economic challenges in both its level and its speed. Since the aging issue cannot be addressed overnight, we need to accept that it will be our key agenda for at least another two decades and get ready to revise our social systems to better accommodate the changes in the whole popula-tion structure. And it is very important for us to promote the employment of older people. If older people who have solid physical and mental ability can continue to work after the current retirement age, it will help to reduce the average per capita burden and act as a driving force of economic growth on the supply and the demand side. We need to establish a “Lifelong Active Society” as an ideal model in which the will and ability of older people can be fully utilized.

Universities can prepare for an aging society by conducting research and education. In terms of research, Keio, for example, has just created the Longevity Initiative to realize an affluent aging society. The central research theme is to understand the conditions of promoting a Lifelong Active Society. Research in labor economics plays a crucial role here, in identifying the determining the factors of labor supply of older people using econometric models, which suggest that health is a key determinant; therefore, it becomes necessary to incorporate research findings from the fields of medicine and life sciences. Keio’s researchers in these fields are conducting compre-hensive research related to health and longevity, including large-scale studies on centenarians. We are also accumulating knowledge on how to maintain and restore physical and cognitive capabilities of older people through research on regenerative medicine.

In terms of education, one of the central themes is facilitating a Lifelong Active Society in which people have longer working lives. Meanwhile, the work skills necessary for the job market are changing fast, and during one’s working career, one must learn to adjust well. Demand for recurrent education will grow. Especially when technology becomes more advanced and the market more sophisticated, higher skills will be in strong demand. In this context, universities and especially professional graduate schools will be able to play a vital role.

An aging population is emerging as a serious social issue for many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and sooner or later, China. By collaborating with major universities that have high-caliber faculties in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, we may be able to find solutions together that can cope with aging societies in Asia and even in countries beyond. Global partnership, particularly between Asian universities, will bring enormous contributions to the world.

Atsushi SeikeKeio UniversityPresidentJapan





Atsushi Seike became the president of Keio University in 2009. He received his PhD in labor economics from Keio University and became associate professor at Keio’s Faculty of Business and Commerce in 1985, professor in 1992, and dean from 2007 to 2009. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics, UCLA and consultant at the RAND Corporation. A labor economist, he has authored many books in Japanese including “Beyond the Lifetime Employment” in 1998, “Labor Economics” in 2002, “Toward an Age-Free Society” in 2006, and his most recent, “Revitalizing the Employment System” in 2013. Academic prizes include the 48th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science 2005. Currently a member of the World Economic Forum Global University Leaders Forum (GULF) and the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Ageing, he has also served as president of the Japan Association of Private Universities and Colleges since March 2011. Roles in government committees include chairman of the Council for the Promotion of Social Security System Reform, chairman of the Manufacturing Industry Committee of the Industrial Structure Council, and honorary president of the Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office. He holds the honorary degrees of doctor from École Centrale de Nantes and Yonsei University and the title of Chevalier of the Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur of France.


The Role of Universities in Public Space

Abstract

The traditional role of universities focused on two main lines – education and research based on the Humboldt concept. New roles follow the pattern of the changing social, economic and even political demands in these two areas, but the key principles are still freedom of research and educational activity, as well as integrity, autonomy and independence.

European universities have always had a responsibility to society, as they were usually financed by the state and had to nurture priests, doctors, lawyers, teachers and the small group making up the intellectual elite. The mission of institutions of higher education is changing in the modern world. They are understood, more than ever before, in connection with the development of society as a whole; society invests in universities its hopes for the resolution of economic, social and environmental problems. The social responsibility of the leading world univer-sities therefore means working toward changes in all areas of their activity.

Today we face new challenges. There is a major increase in the accessibility of knowledge online. We also have a rapid increase in university education across the world. The challenge will be to ensure the quality of education. Another question will be the future financing of further education. Last but not least, we have to respond to a changing world – producing graduates who perceive ethical, social and environmental problems and are prepared to work on their resolution and take responsibility.

It will be crucial to put an emphasis on research – cooperating on research projects on a global scale, supporting international and student mobility by means of bilateral relations and regional and international organizations, and cooperating through international organizations and university networks. Very important will be interconnec-tion of further education with other sectors, such as media, technology and innovation, and creation of new markets, new sectors and new sources of economic value. We need to accept new technologies and innovations in higher education. We are living in a digital era that changes rapidly, and universities need to react and adapt. Teaching methods need to change; we have to support interdisciplinary cooperation, replacing the traditional introversion of the disciplines and provide systematic support of interaction between the sciences and the humanities.

Nobody knows how the world will look in 30 years. Therefore we need to adapt to new developments. In today’s world it is even more important than before to select information and think critically. It is necessary for institutions of higher education to be open to new trends in education and react flexibly to new conditions and suggestions. On a global scale, all universities are faced with the dynamic development of society and should jointly develop a vision of how research universities should look in the future and jointly seek ways of gradually starting to fulfil this vision. Institutions of higher education worldwide should contribute to the positive relationship of the public to national cultural values, education, critical and creative thinking, and the ability to teach and research across continents.

Tomas ZimaCharles University in Prague RectorCzech Republic





Tomáš Zima graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague in 1990. He then started working at the Institute of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry of the First Faculty of Medicine. In 1999, he switched to the Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, which he led until now. In 2001, Mr. Zima became a professor of medical biochemistry. He has also specialization in clinical biochemistry, internal medicine, nephrology.Since September 2005, Professor Zima was the dean of the First Faculty of Medicine for seven years. He is a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic, the Czech Medical Academy, and the president of the Czech Rectors Conference. He is author of more than 400 articles and seven books. On February 1, 2014, Professor Zima became the rector of Charles University in Prague. He implements the vision of Charles University as a university in the third millennium – a university that is prestigious and achieves signifi-cant successes in both science and research.


PANEL DISCUSSION II

Strategic Global Partnershipfor Sustainable Development

Strategic Partnerships and Sustainable Development

Abstract

With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations committed to achieving sustainable development in three dimensions – economic, social and environmental – by 2030. Based on their functions, universities of technology could contribute to sustainable development, too: First, universities of technology train future experts and leaders for industry and the high-tech service sectors. Second, universities of technology conduct research for future technologies addressing the major problems of global societies, like energy transition or water management. And, finally, universities of technology are global players in technology and knowledge transfer, enabling access to science, technology and knowledge worldwide.

In this talk, the question of how universities of technology can contribute to sustainable development by strategic partnerships will be addressed from the perspective of Technische Universität Darmstadt. The talk will present examples of cooperation with strategic international partners and global industry partners as well as cooperation within so-called German universities abroad or within university networks. Based on these illustra-tions, it will be shown how these types of global partnerships can contribute to sustainable development, espe-cially by fostering academic exchange at the level of teaching and research as well as by providing access to science, technology and innovation.


Hans Jürgen Prömel serves as president of Technische Universität Darmstadt since October 2007.

In January 2014, Professor Prömel took office as President of TU9 - German Institutes of Technology. As a member of the Scientific Committee of Lower Saxony, Professor Prömel advises the state government on its higher education policies. He is member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). From 2008 to 2012, Professor Prömel served as Vice President for Governance, Human Resource Management and Organization of the German University Rectors' Conference.

Prior to joining TU Darmstadt, Professor Prömel was Vice President for Research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2000-2007) and Professor for Algorithms and Complexity of that university (1994-2007). He also was tenure professor for Discrete Mathematics at the University of Bonn (1988-1994) and held a position as assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (1984-1985). Professor Prömel has published more than 100 papers and is co-author and co-editor of several books.

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Hans Jürgen PrömelTU Darmstadt PresidentGermany

The New Research University in Global Perspective

Abstract

A little more than 50 years ago, the University of California, Irvine was established on empty ranchland in an unpopulated part of Orange County. The campus’s historic commitment to sustainability reflects its origins as an anchoring institution for what would become one of the most energetic and innovative counties in the United States.

The unique circumstances of UCI’s founding enabled it to develop a truly comprehensive approach to promoting sustainability in many ways: by having an impact on the development of our region, through our world-leading research, through multiple academic programs, and by devising some of the best institutional practices among all colleges and universities.’

Highlights will be provided of these separate and interactive impacts, including: • Establishment of the first academic department to consider the Earth as a coupled system • Transformation of our campus into a living laboratory of sustainability practices • Outreach to local communities and organizations to share innovative research and technologies • Integration of sustainability into academic programming in different disciplines • Development of international partnerships to spur research and uncover new solutions

While these programs and activities have earned UCI a national reputation for leadership in sustainability, we are eager to do more. Our new strategic plan calls for us to increase the number of faculty who work on sustainability issues, to increase our sponsored research in these areas, and especially to increase our international partner-ships. The presentation will underscore how we might use the occasion of these international meetings to increase the scope and impact of the world we are doing separately.


Howard Gillman became UC Irvine’s sixth chancellor in 2014. He had previously served as provost and executive vice-chancellor since June 2013 and interim chancellor since July 1, 2014.

An award-winning scholar and educator, he has academic appointments in the Departments of Law, Political Science, and History. Among his books are “The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence” (Duke 1993), “The Votes That Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presi-dential Election” (Chicago 2001), and “American Constitutionalism” (with Mark Graber and Keith Whittington). He has also co-edited two other volumes and authored more than 40 articles and book chapters. He has received many awards for his scholarship, and for teaching excellence and dedication to students.

Prior to his appointment as provost and executive vice-chancellor at UC Irvine, Dr. Gillman was a professor of political science, history, and law at the University of Southern California. From 2007 to 2012, he served as dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. A native of Southern California, he earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in political science at UCLA.

Howard GillmanUC Irvine ChancellorUSA


Brainpower of the Nation and Innovation Powerhouse – the Case of UTM

Abstract

Malaysia aspires to become an advanced nation that is inclusive and sustainable. As such, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) strives to be the brainpower of the nation and to become an innovation powerhouse for wealth creation and economic transformation. In view of the current global economic slowdown and climate-change issues, universities not only need to sustain economic growth momentum but also reduce CO2 emission and pursue green growth to achieve resilience and sustainability as highlighted in our recent 11th Malaysia Plan from 2016 to2020.

We also focus on delivering high impact outcomes in meeting global, regional and local challenges by emphasiz-ing five main areas: frontier material, health and wellness, smart digital lifestyle, resource sustainability and innovative engineering, which will ultimately contribute toward both the capital economy and the people economy by anchoring growth on people.

UTM aims to be innovative, entrepreneurial and global. With these three basic key agendas, we made the UTM Global Plan 2020. For the past five years, UTM has run a number of R&D works on sustainable development that have had significant impacts on the community. This presentation will highlight the contribution of UTM toward sustainable and low carbon development policy, in Malaysia and Asia in general. Among the urban development research projects in UTM are MIT-UTM in Sustainable Cities, UTM-Imperial College of London in Energy Future, and UTM-Kyoto University in development of low carbon society scenarios for Asian regions.

As Malaysia is undergoing rapid urbanization and industrialization, cities will be the main emitters of CO2. Hence the focus of urban development, especially in the major cities, is to mitigate carbon emission, and carbon reduc-tion should be the top priority. The above mentioned project is based on the Science to Action approach, involv-ing engineering research as well as policy study aiming to provide sustainable low carbon solutions to urban development. In order to showcase and to share research findings on sustainable development, UTM as an observer or civil society registered with UNFCCC has been actively participating in the annual side events and exhibition of the Conference of Parties since 2012 in Doha.

Global partnership and internationalization activities have also improved, as reflected by the remarkable increase in both international students and staff and in internationalization activities. To ensure further success, UTM campus planning has also adopted sustainable and eco-campus practices by promoting energy efficiency, a green campus, waste to energy and enhancing clean and green technology. We are also embarking on a bigger agenda by working with the state government on the UTM-Johor Strategic Innovation Institute, where UTM will spearhead Iskandar Innovation Valley, an innovation hub for industry, knowledge-based economy, and the Centres of Excellence, for discovering knowledge related to sustainable development dge related to sustainable development.

Wahid OmarUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia Vice-ChancellorMalaysia





Wahid Omar is a professor of structural engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He was appointed as the vice-chancellor in 2013. President Omar obtained his PhD in structural engineering from the University of Birmingham, his MS in bridge engineering from the University of Surrey, and his BS in civil engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He is a registered professional engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia and a member of various professional bodies, including the Institution of Engineers Malaysia.

He is also an honorary member of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations (AFEO). His areas of expertise include structural assessment, reinforced and pre-stressed concrete, ductility of high strength concrete, and project management. Prior to his present appointment at the university, he was deputy vice-chancellor for development from 2011 to 2013 and director of the Office of Asset and Development from 2008 to 2011. In his capacity as the latter, he was entrusted with the major task of managing the campus development projects worth RM1 billion.


From Global Students to Global Institutions: Enabling Partnerships for the 21st Century and Beyond

Abstract

Universities have a central role to play in addressing complex global challenges such as global health, sustain-ability, security and cultural identity. Part of this role is a commitment to educating global students who will become the global agents of change, and to developing responsive institutions that are of service to the local and global communities. Our strategy at King’s College London is to create a richly diverse and durable base of institutional relationships and industrial partners to draw upon as we seek to address increasingly ambitious societal, scientific and technological challenges through novel interdisciplinary approaches and multisector partnerships.

There is a trend for global universities to form more ambitious strategic alliances that lead to really high-volume levels of transnational research and innovation collaboration and knowledge exchange. King’s has strong relationships with universities in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and we have just launched a transconti-nental, multidisciplinary alliance with Arizona State University in the United States and the University of New South Wales in Australia. The PLuS Alliance – named for the cities Phoenix, London and Sydney -- is an ambi-tious initiative to link diverse but complementary institutions to think differently about global challenges, particu-larly on sustainability, urbanization, social justice, and global health.

Our work in Sierra Leone is another example of an innovative approach to build capacity, capability and sustain-ability in the health-care sector, delivering improvement projects and strengthening training, clinical services and policy. The partnership is made up of King’s Health Partners, Sierra Leone government ministries, the Connaught Hospital in Freetown and other health institutions in West Africa. This approach, involving diverse stakeholders, proved essential in responding to the Ebola epidemic.

Pioneering approaches can also be achieved in multi-country partnerships: King’s is also part of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), a 13-country partnership, involving 23 universities in Europe, to develop a sustainable digital tool that brings together archives in 51 countries. The pioneering combination of expertise from a diverse range of disciplines has made the portal accessible for a wide array of end-users, guiding the development of a variety of new digital research and archiving projects.

Successful, sustainable, multilayered partnerships are challenging to achieve but can transform institutions and communities, not least by enabling student, staff and academic mobility, essential components of a globalized society. Our ultimate goal is to increase universities’ already significant contribution to solving the world’s most pressing problems.

Joanna NewmanKing's College London Vice-PrincipalUK





Joanna Newman joined King's College London as vice-principal in 2014 and has lead responsibility for all international matters at the College. In addition, she is responsible for the English Language Center, and has joint responsibility with the vice- principal (arts and sciences) for the School of Global Affairs and for international scholarships and the Graduate School with the vice-principal for education. In 2015, she was appointed a Com-monwealth Commissioner by the secretary of State for Development.

Before joining King’s, she was director of the UK Higher Education International Unit, where she represented the UK HE Sector at National and International Governmental fora, negotiated the Brazilian Science Without Borders Program for the UK and other national scholarship schemes, and launched HE Global, a Trans-National Educa-tion portal for UK Higher Education. Prior to this, she was head of Higher Education at the British Library where she oversaw studies on the Google Generation and Generation Y. In addition, she led HEFCE funded projects such as the UK Research Reserve, National Postgraduate Research days and ETHOS – the digitization of UK Theses. She also initiated the international partnership with the National Library and Archives in India to digitize the entire span of India Office Records that sit in the British Library.

She is a member of the History Faculty at King’s and has taught history at University College London and Warwick University. She is an honorary research fellow at the University of Southampton. In 2014, Professor Newman was awarded an MBE in recognition for her work in promoting British higher education internationally.


Social Responsibilities: The Focus of Higher Education in the 21st Century

Abstract

Higher education institutions now operate in an environment characterized by unprecedented complexity and competitiveness. The increasingly globalized economy and changing landscape of the local and overseas higher education sector have a significant impact on the development of tertiary institutions, from their vision and mission to programs and pedagogy.

In Hong Kong, the implementation of four-year undergraduate education reform since 2012 has provided local universities a unique opportunity to restructure their curriculum. For example, the Hong Kong Polytechnic Univer-sity has striven to educate well-rounded students. We are the first university in Hong Kong to connect profes-sional knowledge to societal issues through a mandatory service-learning credit-bearing program in our under-graduate curriculum. The goal is to nurture our students into all-round global citizens, with high ethical standards and a strong sense of social responsibility.

Driven by a strong commitment to promoting university social responsibility (USR), PolyU has initiated the forma-tion of a USR Network. Formally established in 2015 with 13 founding member universities, the network provides an excellent platform for universities to exchange ideas and experiences, as well as to discuss strategies for the way forward.

In the presentation, President Tong will share the unique experiences of curriculum reform and the development of service-learning program at PolyU, and discuss the work and strategic partnerships of the USR Network. It is hoped that through sharing views and best practices and leveraging each other’s strengths, universities will be able to further foster the development of USR for the sustainable development of the world.


President Timothy W. Tong was born and raised in Hong Kong. After completing his secondary education, he pursued further studies the United States, where he received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from Oregon State University in 1976, and his MS and PhD in the same discipline from the UC Berkeley in 1978 and 1980 respectively.

Professor Tong took office as president of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2009. Prior to his current appointment, Professor Tong was dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at George Washington University.

Being an expert in the field of heat transfer, Professor Tong has been actively involved in addressing issues connected to energy use and sustainable development. He has published over eighty technical articles and edited seven conference proceedings. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences and the International Thermal Conductivity Conference. Professor Tong was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers and the Engineering Hall of Fame by the College of Engineering of OSU in 2001 and 2010 respectively.

Timothy W. TongHong Kong Polytechnic University PresidentHong Kong


GENERAL SESSION

Insights into Higher Education: Trends & Development

Fostering of Creative Talents and the Social Responsibility ofResearch University in the New Era

Abstract

Korea earned the label of the Miracle on the Han River in the 20th century, emerging as an economic power-house in the shipbuilding, automobile, semiconductor and ICT industries. Despite a lack of natural resources and the devastation wrought by the war on its social infrastructure, Korea was able to achieve astonishing growth, thanks to the outstanding talents produced through higher education. In the 21st century, Korea is experiencing slow economic growth due to its declining birth rate, aging population, fierce competition from China, and the recovery of export competitiveness by Japan with the weaker yen. The country seeks to overcome this crisis through creative economy and is embracing new opportunities to generate further growth.

In the age of creative economy, KAIST and other research universities must contribute to the nation’s economic development by fostering creative talents capable of identifying and overcoming social problems. Previously, universities were focused on nurturing individuals who possess the general knowledge required for mass produc-tion work and on supporting advancements in science and technology. However, research universities in the age of new industry should practice student-centered education to produce talents who display initiative to define and solve problems, thereby creating social and economic value.

KAIST is focused on nurturing talented graduates based on its π-shaped educational philosophy.

The mathematical symbol π is made up of three lines. The horizontal line maintains the balance, and two other lines spread out below. Undergraduates acquire a broad array of knowledge of basic disciplines that can be applied to various fields, represented by the horizontal line in the letter π. This serves as the foundation for gradu-ate studies, during which students gain an in-depth understanding in a field of their choice, shown by the first line projecting vertically from the horizontal line.

The second vertical line of the letter π symbolizes entrepreneurial spirit. Researchers in science and technology may lack the skills and strategic thinking to translate their knowledge and research achievements into real-world values. Greater success is possible if scientists possess an entrepreneurial spirit. As part of the Startup KAIST Movement, KAIST has worked to promote an entrepreneurial spirit rooted in science and technology, establish-ing an ecosystem that supports entrepreneurs throughout the startup process and fostering large companies with global market potential. Students are offered opportunities to pursue a minor in entrepreneurship and take related courses. Moreover, the launching of the Institute of Entrepreneurship provides one-stop services for all stages of business growth, from start-up preparation to global market entry.

In research, KAIST teaches students to uphold the dignity of human life and to show loving care for others while using cutting-edge technology to resolve problems faced by humanity. Students are encouraged to undertake studies that recognize the value of a warm heart and to give back to society through science and technology. When Korea experienced the man-made disasters years ago, professors at KAIST took the initiative to establish an institute for disaster studies. KAIST has also launched the Smart Healthcare Doctor M Project (Mobile Health-care Innovation), which provides real-time health monitoring and management through mobile devices in response to the aging society. The significance of this project lies not only in advancing medical systems for individual health management, but also in introducing a holistic mobile system that watches over the socially neglected and seniors living alone.

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Sung-Mo KangKAIST PresidentKorea



All universities have set high goals for themselves, and are doing their best to gain competitive edges in various fields. However, with the growing complexity of science and technology, it is becoming more and more difficult for problems to be resolved by one organization alone. In addition to being committed to their respective roles, universities must actively collaborate for a better world. The goal of KAIST is to nurture talents who will help create knowledge for the betterment of humankind. This is consistent with the greater vision of Korea to emerge as a leading nation in science and technology. Institutes of higher education should work together to enhance the quality of life based on sustainable development.


Sung-Mo Kang has been a leader in higher education for over two decades. He is the 15th president of KAIST since February 2013. He has previously served as the 2nd chancellor of the UC Merced, the newest campus of the University of California system; dean of engineering of the UC Santa Cruz; and department head of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Prior to returning to academia, he had led the development of world’s premier CMOS 32bit VLSI microprocessor chipsets for telecommunication and computing applications as a technical supervisor of AT&T Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. This historical achievement for an electronic age was celebrated with issuance of a US postage stamp.

For his research and education contributions, he has received numerous honors, including the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame induction, Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientists Award, IEEE Millennium Medal, IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Award, IEEE CAS Technical Excellence Award, the US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Award, IEEE Graduate Teaching Technical Field Award, IEEE CAS John Choma Education Award, Chang-Lin Tien Education Leader-ship Award, and distinguished alumnus awards from UC Berkeley, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Yonsei University. Kang is a fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, a member of both the National Academy of Engineering, Korea and the Korea Academy of Science and Technology, and has served on the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology of Korea.

He is the chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Future of Electronics, holds 15 US patents and has authored ten books and published over 450 journal and conference papers. He has obtained his PhD from UC Berkeley, MS from State University of New York, Buffalo and BS.(Summa Cum Laude) from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

GENERAL SESSION 45

Higher Education, Innovation and Technology – Changing Dynamics of Hong Kong

Abstract

Hong Kong is often known as a global financial center, but what is lesser known is that it is also a city of entrepre-neurs and innovators. Myriad factors that are unique to Hong Kong contribute to this success, ranging from the opportunities that come with operating under “One Country, Two Systems,” government policies that are condu-cive to innovation and entrepreneurship, and emerging industrial heavyweights in Hong Kong and across the border with global influence. Even more important is the spirit of the people in Hong Kong to capitalize on that leverage to innovate and pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.

The Hong Kong SAR government recently established the new Innovation and Technology Bureau. Under the already established Innovation and Technology Fund, $250 million has been earmarked to co-invest in local start-ups as well as another $250 million to encourage mid-stream applied-research projects in universities. Moreover, the Chinese government has reiterated its focus on innovation and entrepreneurship with pilot zones set up to spur innovation and reforms. The “One Belt, One Road” initiative announced by President Xi Jinping will also provide stimulus to the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem.

It is against this backdrop that the role of the university will continue to evolve. Providing an environment that is conducive to cultivating innovative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit remains critical. At HKUST, we remain committed to providing a fertile ground for education and research. By working closely with industry leaders regionally and globally, and with world leading universities, we hope that our students and faculty will turn their ideas into reality. Globalization and digitalization are changing the education landscape, and our engagement in China is leading to significant developments in education and research. Still, there are ongoing challenges faced by universities in Hong Kong. Whether we can capitalize on new opportunities will be one of the major challenges that universities must overcome.

Tony F. ChanHong Kong University of Science and Technology PresidentHong Kong

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Professor Tony F. Chan assumed the presidency of HKUST in 2009. From 2006 to 2009, Professor Chan was assistant director of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation the United States. In that position, he guided and managed research funding in astronomy, physics, chemistry, mathematical science, material science, and multidisciplinary activities.

His scientific background is in mathematics, computer science and engineering. He received his BS and MS degrees in engineering from the California Institute of Technology and his PhD in computer science from Stan-ford University. He pursued postdoctoral research at Caltech as research fellow, and taught at Yale University before joining the UCLA in 1986. He was appointed chair of the Department of Mathematics in 1997 and served as dean of physical sciences from 2001 to 2006 at UCLA. He also holds honorary joint appointments with the university’s BioEngineering Department and the Computer Science Department. Professor Chan is an honorary doctor of the University of Strathclyde.

He was one of the principal investigators who made the successful proposal to the NSF to form the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA. He served as IPAM’s director from 2000 to 2001. President Chan is an active member of many scientific societies. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), an elected fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), an elected fellow of both the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Mathematical Society.

GENERAL SESSION 47

A Hokkaido University that Contributes to the Resolution of Global Issues

Abstract

Universities share a common responsibility to help resolve global issues, such as limited food, water and energy resources. Also, Japan is currently in a maelstrom of rapid social changes that include a rapidly declining birthrate combined with an aging population, a prolonged economic slump and decreased industrial competitive-ness, the decline of local communities, and the intense international competition that accompanies advances in globalization.

Universities are required to fulfill an extremely important role in such circumstances. As a center of knowledge, a university must contribute to sustainable development for the world by producing “human resources who will create innovation and take the lead in social reform.”

This presentation explains the strategy and efforts of Hokkaido University to become an institution that contrib-utes to the resolution of global issues. Throughout its long history stretching back 140 years, Hokkaido University has adopted and cultivated as its ethos the four basic philosophies of frontier spirit, global perspectives, all-round education, and practical learning. As the university’s 150th anniversary approaches in 2026, we profoundly recognize the importance of the role that a university should play in society. We have decided to boldly and steadily move forward with reforms based upon the basic philosophies we have held ever since our founding.

Our long-term objective is to become “Hokkaido University that contributes to the resolution of global issues”. To achieve our goals, we initiated a 10-year university reform plan, the Hokkaido Universal Campus Initiative (HUCI), which is supported by the Japanese government.

HUCI consists of the following three axes:

1. Interdisciplinary Research, Generating Greater Synergy: When seeking to resolve issues of a global nature, it is important that researchers work with colleagues from different academic disciplines as well as investigating their own fields. The range of studies offered by Hokkaido University is broad and comprehensive. Moreover, it is a tradition of the university that our researchers in various fields work together and openly share their results. Consequently, we consider interdisciplinary research to be one of our greatest strengths.

2. Trans-Sector Cooperation, Serving the Same Purpose: To improve the social good, we also need to reduce the barriers between societal sectors. Since the university’s founding, we have focused on achieving social development through cooperation with academia, government, industry, and citizens. We do this by sharing our educational and research resources, including our expansive campus, research facilities, and the results of the work performed by researchers.

3. Trans-Border Collaboration, Sharing Responsibility Globally:To make the universal campus a reality, we need to further diversify our collaboration. So we are opening up our vast educational and research resources to selected universities around the world to accelerate global coopera-tion. In anticipation of our 150th anniversary, we are going to reform our education system and strengthen partnerships with proactive universities to better address global issues.

Ichiro UyedaHokkaido University Executive and Vice-PresidentJapan

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Professor Ichiro Uyeda is the Executive and Vice President of Hokkaido University and he is also the Executive Director of the Office of International Affairs at Hokkaido University.

Professor Uyeda received his bachelor's degree in Agriculture from Hokkaido University in 1972 and earned his master's and doctorate degree in Plant Pathology from Washington State University in 1975 and 1978, respec-tively.

At Hokkaido University, he had served as the Executive and Vice-President for Research from 2011 to 2013 then assumed the role of the Executive and Vice-President for International Affairs since 2013.

GENERAL SESSION 49

National R&D Programs for Society in Korea: How to Challenge Social Issues

Abstract

Many research universities have been created on the premise that funding for research and development is an investment whose initial costs would later be offset by greater economic returns made through subsequent commercial and industrial development. This model has largely been successful and has been adopted by many countries, including Korea, and the world has reaped the benefits of advances made possible through commer-cialized R&D developments. However, the world has also suffered unintended consequences as a result of those developments, such as increased rates of cancer, increased levels of environmental pollution, and increased levels of social disparity.

To address these and other growing social concerns, the classic R&D approach that has previously focused only on increasing economic competitiveness should be expanded to solve social problems toward promotion of a better quality of life in the community. This expanded approach to R&D can be called “research and solution development” (R&SD), and adopting this expanded approach to R&D may soon become an imperative require-ment for a country to maintain and, indeed, increase economic competitiveness.

Here, in this presentation, Korea's approach to addressing social problem through science and technology will be given. The specific areas of the problem include personal health and welfare, water and the environment, and parents’ concerns for children. The National Research Foundation in Korea allotted more than $33 million in fiscal year 2015 to study these issues , and the results have been promising enough to warrant consideration of new project development with key research partners. This new approach is not just a necessity for future economic prosperity, but it is also a fundamental social responsibility that research universities should pursue, especially those supported by government funding. By adopting this new, expanded approach to traditional R&D, research universities have the opportunity to add more value to the underlying scientific research while at the same time improving the overall quality of life in society.

Seung Hyeon MoonGISTPresidentKorea

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As a graduate of Seoul National University, President Moon received his PhD in chemical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States. He joined Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a research scientist in their chemical engineering division from 1982 to 1985. President Moon worked for the Argonne National Laboratory in the United States as a postdoctoral appointee and assistant biochemical engineer in their energy systems division from 1991 to 1994.

Since joining the faculty of GIST in 1994, he has served in numerous academic leadership positions, including director of the International Environmental Research Center, dean of academic and student affairs, and director of the Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies. President Moon recently served as program manager of Energy and Environmental Research for the National Research Foundation of Korea. As program manager, he was responsible for the overall planning of energy and environmental research, facilitating the research, analysis and application of resources for research, and fostering and utilizing the results.

His research areas include: polymer electrolyte membranes for water treatment and energy conversion systems, ion-exchange and bipolar membranes (synthesis, characterization, and applications), electrodialysis, reverse electrodialysis, capacitive deionization and diffusion dialysis, fuel cell membranes, separators for rechargeable batteries, and enzyme sensors.

GENERAL SESSION 51

University Partnerships for International Collaboration: Addressing Global Challenges and Enriching Student and Faculty Experiences

Abstract

Drexel University’s model for international engagement is based upon mutually beneficial partnerships with selected universities and research institutions abroad, leveraging faculty research, alumni relations, and other stakeholder connections and building on research synergies and complementary strengths and values. In most cases, the partnership involves a mix of opportunities for student exchange, faculty and student research, global classrooms, internships, and dual graduate degrees.

What is distinctive about this model is how it appreciates that today’s global challenges are complex, interdiscipli-nary, and cross-border in nature and seeks solutions to these challenges through multilevel engagement among dedicated scholars and practitioners. We want our students and faculty working across borders to address these thorny problems. This approach supports our university’s commitment to strong community partnerships, recog-nizing the role the academy plays in promoting socio-economic development. This notion of social responsibility extends beyond our local community, encouraging shared knowledge production in service to the global commu-nity.

Our academic partnerships with institutions such as KAIST and the National NanoFab Center (NNFC) provide excellent vehicles for linking educational and cross-cultural opportunities to research projects that involve trans-lational goals, scientific networks, and industry stakeholders. We look to deepen such partnerships through student exchanges, internships, and external funding, as well as through global classrooms, using online technologies.

This presentation will highlight different aspects of partnership building, with emphasis on multiple levels of engagement. In addition to exploring many benefits of such a partnership model, the presentation will explore some of the challenges that go into sustaining partnerships and some creative approaches to working across borders virtually when resources are constrained. Here, for example, global classrooms can pave the way to eventual face-to-face educational and research programs. This presentation should spark lively discussion around innovative problem-solving and the development of meaningful multilevel partnerships. The presentation will encourage discussion and exchange of ideas through the elaboration of a number of different examples from our experience.

Julie MostovDrexel University Senior Vice-PresidentUSA

GENERAL SESSION 52




Julie Mostov is the senior vice-provost for global initiatives and a professor of political science at Drexel Univer-sity. Under her leadership, the Office of International Programs brings a global dimension to the university, designing, implementing, and promoting a wide range of research and educational initiatives linking Drexel with strategic partners across the globe. Dr. Mostov co-chairs, with the dean of the College of Medicine, Drexel’s Strategic Task Force on Global Initiatives ensuring the successful execution of the university’s commitment to enhance its global impact. Before creating the Office of International Programs at Drexel, she was director of International Area Studies and Women’s Studies at the university.

As a scholar, she specializes on contemporary issues of sovereignty as well as the politics of national identity, borders, citizenship, and gender. Her award-winning book, “Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty and Democ-racy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) is based on her analysis of ethno-national conflict in Southeastern Europe and the violence of “hard borders” and human immobility. In addition to publishing numerous works on related subjects, teaching, and participating in all aspects of academic life, Professor Mostov has also been actively involved in development projects in Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, and Moldova, supported by the US Department of State. She holds a PhD from New York University, an MA from the University of Belgrade, and a BA from Mount Holyoke College.

GENERAL SESSION 53

MOOCs: What after the Hype ?

Abstract

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) are online courses that are mostly offered by higher educational institu-tions and delivered through MOOC providers such as Coursera and edX.

In 2012, The University of Louvain (UCL) decided to experiment MOOCs. The objectives were manifold: be part of an international network, provide visibility and an image of excellence, explore and study new forms of online teaching, reach new students and also analyse the benefits and impact of MOOCs on on-campus learning.

UCL joined edX in 2013 as a charter member. EdX is one of the most important MOOC provider, with more than 90 global partners among the world’s leading universities. Since 2013, UCL developed about 20 courses. Exam-ples of courses range from "International Human Rights" to "Respiration in the Human Body" and "Paradigms of Computer Programming". A coordinated set of 3 MOOCs on Management fundamentals now forms an edX XSeries. Up to now, these courses have attracted about 200.000 registrants from 200 countries. More than 50 professors and teaching assistants are involved in our MOOCs. Most MOOCs are integrated in the university curriculum, usually as part of an existing course.

The MOOCs experience at UCL faces many challenges, shared by many universities. The production costs of a MOOC are high : how do we achieve sustainability? What is a suitable economical model for MOOCs for a state funded university? How to motivate and support instructors to embark on the development of MOOCs? How to improve learning with MOOCs, including during flipped classrooms? How to assess and evaluate participants? Should MOOCs provide certificates or credits? How to better integrate MOOCs within the existing curriculum? What is the main target audience: our on-campus students? life-long learners? companies? worldwide learners? Could MOOCs lead to a virtual version of the successful European Erasmus program of students exchanges?

The MOOCs experience at the University of Louvain is positive. We are however at a turning point. In this talk, we will briefly outline some of the main strategic choices of the university in terms of MOOCs for the future.


Vincent Blondel is the rector of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Founded in 1425, the Université Catholique de Louvain is one of Europe’s oldest universities. Rector Blondel holds degrees in philosophy, engineering and mathematics and an MS from Imperial College, London. He has held postdoctoral fellowships in Oxford, Stockholm and Paris, and was visiting professor at MIT, as well as Fulbright scholar.

He chairs the National Science Foundation in Belgium and is vice-president of the council of rectors of the French-speaking universities of Belgium. He brought the University of Louvain into the edX and MOOC consor-tium.

Since his election in September 2014 and together with his team, Rector Blondel has developed a major strategic plan, “Louvain 2020”, for the next four years that includes an emphasis on digital developments.

Vincent BlondelUniversité Catholique de LouvainRectorBelgium

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PLENARY SESSION II

Seeking a New Model ofResearch University in New Era

Abstract

Never has mankind faced such challenges, but never has mankind held so many keys to “mass-flourishing.” Chal-lenges involve maintaining global economic growth at times of huge public and private debt, ensuring sustainable development at times of global warming, guaranteeing citizen’s safety against terrorists and rogue states, and diagnosing and curing new infections and age-related disabilities and diseases. Innovation, disruptive technolo-gies, and more specifically the industrial Internet will provide powerful solutions in facing these challenges. How should global science and technology universities evolve to foster the emergence of this new era?

Our institutions' mission is to generate and disseminate cutting-edge knowledge for the benefit of our students, of industry and of society. While fundamental research should still be carefully protected as the source of major human progress, we will more and more ask that our scientists consider potential societal applications of their work.

Industry's operations are profoundly transformed by technological opportunities, with change affecting all functions, from product manufacturing and service delivery to marketing to the development of new products. Such change is commonly driven by the progress of data sciences, the miniaturization of sensors, the generation of intelligent materials, and the availability of communication infrastructures. Most of these innovations borrow from several disciplinary fields. Quite often they trigger societal resistance because of their impact on the organi-zation of communities.

In this setting, our research strategy should evolve to enhance, more than ever, cross-disciplinary work. Math-ematics and computer sciences tend to fertilize every other area, as research becomes increasingly complex and involves highly sophisticated equipment generating ever increasing data sets. No challenge faced in the fields of energy, environment, safety or health can be solved by a single technique. Research in the humanities and social sciences also becomes a priority as populations question the relevance of new technologies, which frequently raise ethical or societal issues that call for delicately balanced regulations.

Hence the organization of research in our universities should provide opportunities to complement traditional department-based structures with multidisciplinary institutes focused on well-identified societal challenges. Corporations practicing “open-innovation” should also be welcome on campuses in order to facilitate translational research and technology transfer.

As for the education of our students, transformation is similarly on its way. We should first recognize that the emergence of Generation Z brings to us different, natively Internet-prone candidates. At the other end of the learning process, industry will request from graduates that they be savvy at solving complex issues involving several sciences, and respectful of general interest. We, in turn, must make a specific effort to develop new peda-gogical tools and new channels aimed at fostering multidisciplinary approaches.

Finally, as we prepare our students to serve Industry 4.0, we should also apply the same methods to our management, and plan for University 4.0, a university where every student's individuality is respected, where their wishes and performance are carefully monitored via digital means in order to adapt learning programs to their needs, and where our faculty's tasks are facilitated and enriched by processes and technologies providing transparency, efficiency and satisfaction in education.

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Jacques BiotÉcole PolytechniquePresidentFrance

How to Prepare Our Universities for the New Era of Industry 4.0?




Jacques N. Biot serves since mid-2013 as the first executive chairman of École Polytechnique, in the wake of an institutional reform passed to align the historical institution's by-laws with international university standards. Biot's career has been focused on how to turn science and technology into economic value in a responsible way.

An École Polytechnique graduate (Class of 71) and a member of the prestigious “Corps des Mines”, Biot initially served the French government, a typical career path in France for the elite of Polytechnique graduates. He dedicated his years in the administration to industry restructur- ing and innovation funding within the Ministry of Industry and Research. He then served as the advisor, in charge of “Industry and Technology” in the Prime Minis-ter's office until 1985.

Subsequently, he held executive positions in highly innovative French biopharmaceutical companies, with a focus on strategy and international growth (Roussel Uclaf then Pasteur Mérieux Serums and Vaccines, both later merged into the Sanofi Group).

From 1992 until mid-2012, he led an entrepreneurial career as the founder; chairman and CEO of a strategic consulting firm specialized in life sciences, where he recruited a multidisciplinary team dedicated to health technology assessment and market access for international clients in the pharma, biotech, medical technology, diagnostics, investment and health insurance industry. After successfully divesting his company, Biot played a role as an investor in start-ups in the healthcare field.

In parallel he has served since 2002 as an independent director, chairman of the audit committee and deputy chairman of the Board of Guerbet Laboratories, a French public, family-owned pharmaceutical company, a world leader in the contrast media industry.

Biot has also been for the last 14 years a member of the scientific commission of the "Corps des Mines", which supervises PhD projects of selected young students. He also actively participated, as non-executive Chairman of the École des Mines d'Alès, in working parties in charge of designing the strategy of the Écoles des Mines and

He is a member of the governmental commission "Innovation 2030". He was appointed in early 2014 to the International Board of the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology. Since July 2014 he is member of the Board of Directors of the Institute d'Optique Graduate School.

Biot served as a member of the executive committee of the Kidney Forum, a citizens' initiative formed to foster best practices in the field of renal failure, a devastating disease.

A father of 3 daughters, Biot is fond of performing arts (opera, theater, ballet). He enjoys sailing, mountaineering, and flying. He has climbed several summits up to 20'000 feet. He holds a French and an Australian pilot license.Biot is a knight in the French Legion of Honor, an officer in the French Order of Merit and a knight in the Lion's Order of Senegal.

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PARTICIPANTS



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Professor Leslie Field was appointed as senior deputy vice-chancellor and senior vice-president at the University of New South Wales in February 2016.

Professor Field is a graduate of the University of Sydney, with a PhD in chemistry in 1979 followed by postdoc-toral fellowships at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and then at Oxford. He took up an academic post at the University of Sydney in 1982. He was head of chemistry at the University of Sydney from 1997 to 2001 and deputy vice-chancellor for research from 2001 to 2003. He served as the deputy vice-chancellor for research at UNSW from 2005 to 2016.

As senior deputy vice-chancellor, Professor Field has responsibility for the academic staff of the university, academic integrity (for both students and staff), equity and diversity, as well as the university’s progressive global outreach and social justice strategies.

His main areas of research are organometallic chemistry, catalysis and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and four textbooks. He was the recipient of the Organic Chemistry Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1994 and was elected a fellow of the Australia Academy of Science in 1996. He was the recipient of the Rennie Medal in1983; the Edgeworth David Medal in 1986; the Organic Chemistry Medal in1992; the Centenary of Federation Medal in 2003, and the RACI Leighton Medal in 2010.

Leslie FieldUniversity of New South Wales Deputy Vice-ChancellorAustralia

Simon BeechamUniversity of South AustraliaPro Vice-ChancellorAustralia

A civil engineer by training, Simon is currently pro vice-chancellor of the division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment (ITEE) at the University of South Australia. He is also currently chair of the International Water Association’s International Group on Urban Rainfall. His personal research interests include water-sensitive urban design (WSUD), the effects of climate change on integrated water management and siphonic roof-water harvesting and reuse.

Father Marcelo Fernandes de Aquino, SJ., PhD has been the president of Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS since 2006 and professor on the graduation program in philosophy at the university since 1998.

He majored in philosophy at Faculdade de Filosofia Aloisianum and in theology at Pontifícia Universidade Grego-riana, both in Italy, and Philosophy at the Hochschule für Philosophie in Germany. He concluded his master’s degree and doctorate in philosophy at Pontifícia Universidade Gregoriana, where he also obtained his master’s degree in theology. He holds a post-doctorate from Boston College, United States.

He is the president of the Deliberative Council of the Catholic Education National Association of Brazil (ANEC); vice-president of the Association of Universities Entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America (AUSJAL); a member of the Board of Universia Brasil; and a member of the Deliberative Council of Non-Governmental Organization Parceiros Voluntários (Volunteer Partners). He is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Catholic University of Portugal, Portuguese Magazine, and of the Kriteriun Magazine and Síntese Magazine.

Marcelo Fernandes de AquinoUnisinosPresidentBrazil

He is director of Business and International Affair and assistant professor at UNISINOS. He is also a current PhD candidate, at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul State (UFRGS), in the Research Program of Industrial Engineering (PPGEP) focus on the interplay between local cluster development and global networks. He was visiting scholar at University of Massachusetts Boston College of Management from August 2014 to February 2015. He has MS in civil engineering at UFRGS from 2004 to 2007, executive education in management at PUC-RS from 2002 to 2003, and undergraduate degree in civil engineering at UNISINOS from 1992 to 2003.

Cristiano RichterUnisinosDirector of BusinessBrazil

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Xiaohui Shi, president of Chongqing University of Technology, is a professor of automobile engineering. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1985. He has served successively as director of the Worm Laboratory of Chongqing University, director of the Worm Research and Production Center, director of the Automobile Research Center of the Chongqing Institute of Industrial Administration (an earlier name for the Chongqing University of Technology), vice director of the Department of Automobile Engineering, director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, dean of the School of Automobile Engineering, vice president and then president of the Chongqing University of Technology.

He holds additional posts as vice-president of the China Society of Gear Manufacturing, a member of the Chong-qing Science and Technology Consultant Panel, vice-president of the Chongqing Automotive Engineering Society, vice-president of the Chongqing Motorcycle Association, and director of the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Auto Parts and Their Detection Technology.

Xiaohui ShiChongqing University of TechnologyPresidentChina

Engineer and PhD in chemical engineering, Christophe Guy is the CEO and president of Polytechnique Montréal, one of the top engineering schools in Canada in terms of research funding and number of students. An ardent proponent of technology transfer, Professor Guy has supported the start-up of companies from university research and has authored eight patents.

He is currently the vice-chair of the Board of the Canadian Aerospace Research and Innovation Consortium and also sits on the boards of many other organizations. As a professor in environmental and chemical engineering, Professor Guy has authored or co-authored more than 110 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a member of the Order of Canada and an Officer of the Ordre National du Québec.

Christophe GuyÉcole Polytechnique de Montréal PresidentCanada

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Xu Huang is the vice director of the Office of Chongqing University of Technology. He received his Master of Law from Southwest University of Political Science and Law. His research interest focused on political and ideological education and higher education. He has led 4 research projects at the provincial and ministry level, and published more than 10 papers. He was the co-editor of two books. He won 1 second prize of the Provincial Teaching Achievement Award and 1 first prize of Teaching Achievement Award of Chongqing University of Technology.

Xu HuangChongqing University of TechnologyVice-DirectorChina

Bin Huang is the vice director of English Department of Chongqing University of Technology. He received his MA in foreign linguistics and applied linguistics in Southwest University in 2007 after finishing his BA in English education in Southwest Normal University in 2004. His research interest is theories of English teaching. He has published more than 20 papers related to English teaching, and is the author of 1 book and co-author of two books. He was the First Prize Winner in the 2nd SFLEP National College English Teaching Contest in 2011, and in 2013, he was announced as candidate of Renowned Teachers in Chongqing University of Technology.

Bin HuangChongqing University of TechnologyDeputy Director of English Section of School of Language StudiesChina

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Miroslav Vlcek received his MS and RNDr. degrees in theoretical physics from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1974 and 1975, and his Ph and DSc. degrees in Telecommunications from the Czech Techni-cal University in Prague (CTU) in 1979 and 1994 respectively. He is a full professor and head of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Faculty of Transportation Sciences at CTU, and teaches graduate courses on systems, mathematical tools, and digital filters. He was vice-rector for international relations of CTU from 2000 until 2010 and from 2014 again. Professor Vlcek has spent several years abroad on leave from CTU.

In 1978, he spent an academic year at Queen Mary College, London University. Later he received an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and spent two years between 1988 and 1999 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. His research interest is mathematics with applications to digital signal processing and digital filter approximations. He is the author, or co-author of more than 100 papers and two monographs. Between 1989 and 1992, he taught applied mathematics at Msida Junior College, Republic of Malta. In 1998 he received the Eisenhower Fellowship.

Miroslav VlcekCzech Technical University in Prague Vice-RectorCzech Republic

Victor Da Hsuan FengUniversity of MacauDirectorChina

Feng Da-Hsuan is the director of global affairs and special advisor to rector of University of Macau. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and an expert in nuclear and nuclear astrophysics, quantum optics, and math-ematical physics, with wide range of experiences and outstanding achievements as a scholar, researcher and leader of university comprehensive development. Professor Feng assists University of Macau in developing global strategies, thus allows the university to attain new level of international recognition.

Professor Feng has accumulated more than three decades of experience working in the academia and corporate arenas the United States and Taiwan. He was M. Russell Wehr Chair Professor of Physics at Drexel University, director of the Division of Theoretical Physics of the National Science Foundation the United States, vice-president for research and economic development at the University of Texas at Dallas, vice-president of the Fortune 500 Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and senior vice-president of Tsing Hua University and Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Throughout his career, Professor Feng has maintained intimate contact and collaborations with universities and other organizations in Europe, the US, Canada as well as East, South and Southeast Asia. He has served in the capacity as advisor and board member at numerous national labs and high-tech companies in the United States; visiting professor and honorary professor at 13 top universities in China; as well as board member and advisor for science and technology at several universities in China, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Anders Bjarklev holds an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD from Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Since 1985, he has worked at DTU and was appointed as professor in Optical Waveguides at Research Center COM in 1999. In 2001, he became a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. In 2004 he was appointed director of COM-DTU (now DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering). He served as provost before becoming the president of DTU in 2011.

He has served as a referee on several international journals, supervising more than 35 PhD projects and more than 60 MS thesis projects. He is author and co-author of two books, more than 155 international journal articles, and more than 200 articles in international conference proceedings. His research interests include dielectric optical waveguides, rare-earth-doped waveguide components, fibre amplifiers and laser sources, optical communication systems, planar waveguide structures, electromagnetic field theory, and photonic crystal wave-guides. In 1999, he became a co-founder of the company Crystal Fibre A/S. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Anders BjarklevTechnical University of DenmarkPresidentDenmark

Martin BendsøeTechnical University of DenmarkSenior Vice-PresidentDenmark

Martin P. Bendsøe took up his current position in 2009. He received his MS in mathematics and physics at the University of Copenhagen in 1979, his PhD in applied mathematics at Technical University of Denmark in 1983. In 1995, he defended his PhD degree titled “Optimization of Structural Topology, Shape and Material.” In 2010 he received the Doctor honoris causa (Dr.h.c.) from University of Liège, Belgium, for his contributions to compu-tational mechanics.

Professor Bendsøe has served as the chairman of the Department of Mathematics, DTU and was the dean of the Graduate School at DTU from1995 to 1998.

With more than 8,500 citations (ISI) (17,000 in Google Scholar), he is the author of six monographs (four as editor), two textbooks (for undergraduate students), and more than 150 research papers in journals, research monographs and refereed proceedings, on optimal design and control of structures and materials. His work has laid the foundation for the field of "Topology Optimization", which today is a methodology used by, among others, leading industries in the automotive and aircraft sectors. He has a broad international background and has served as reviewer for universities and research foundations in more than 10 countries.

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Hannu Seristö is supporting the university president in developing and managing the university’s strategic partnerships and key stakeholder relations, including support for the fundraising activities. A particular field of activity is the international partnership development with foreign universities and global companies. Development of long-term, systematic, broad and deep partnerships of strategic nature with high-quality universities has been very important on his agenda.

Dr. Seristö is professor of international business at Aalto University’s School of Business, and was previously vice-rector of the Helsinki School of Economics, which was one of the three original universities that formed Aalto University in 2010. His teaching on the master’s and executive education has focused on international business and on global marketing management. Currently his teaching is limited to global marketing management in the executive-MBA programs of Aalto University Executive Education, for instance in South Korea and Taiwan. In research, he has worked on the airline industry and on the strategic alliance dynamics.

Hannu SeristöAalto University Vice-PresidentFinland

Markku Kivikoski has been the president of Tampere University of Technology (TUT) since 2008. He received his MS at the Licentiate of Technology, and PhD in electrical engineering from TUT in 1976, 1980, and 1985 respec-tively.

His former positions at TUT include professor of electronics, head of Institute of Electronics, head of Department of Electrical Engineering, and vice-president. In 1994, he was appointed the chair professor of industrial electronics, and further in 2002, he was elected the vice-president.

From 2001 to 2003, he has served on the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, the Academy of Finland. His research interests include mechatronics, embedded systems, electromagnetic compatibility, short range wireless systems, and radio frequency identification systems.

He has also worked for VTT Technical Research Center of Finland as director of machine automation research and chief technology officer at Hollming Ltd Electronics. He is a member of the TAF (Technology Academy Finland) executive committee, a member of the Board of the Finnish Academy of Technology, a member of the Council of the TEK (Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland), a member of the Board of the Finnish Institute in Japan, chairman of the Board of Hermia Group, and chairman of the Board of TOAS (The Tampere Student Housing Foundation).

Markku KivikoskiTampere University of TechnologyPresidentFinland

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Marc ZolverCentrale Supélec Dean of International AffairsFrance

Marc Zolver is dean of International Affairs and Partnerships at Centrale Supélec in France.

He is engineer from École Centrale de Lyon and holds MS in acoustics in 1990. After working as research-assistant in the Nice Observatory in France and as engineer in the European Southern Observatory (Germany), he started in 1993 a research engineer career in computational fluid dynamics in engines in IFP New Energies in France. His main activities focused on research and development in CFD for internal combustion engines, particularly fluid mechanics, liquid spray in hot gas, combustion and turbulence, moving meshes and applied mathematics, vector and parallel computation (HPC) and software development.

In 2004, he joined Centrale Paris for its "École Centrale Pékin" project as vice-dean during four years in Beijing in China. Centrale Pékin is a multilateral cooperation between the five Centrale Graduate Schools in Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Marseilles and Beihang University (BUAA-Beijing). M. Zolver participated in the development and the management of a six-year curriculum in Beijing for around 120 Chinese students per year following the French Grande École multidisciplinary approach.

In 2008, he came back to France to join the Centrale Paris International Relation team as vice-dean. He partici-pates actively in the development and the strategy of Centrale Paris partnerships, international research and academic programs and takes part in the management of student and staff mobility. He has specific knowledge and networks in Europe, Asia (China, Japan, Korea and Singapore) and Oceania (Australia).

Mathieu Le Traon was appointed Vice-President for International Relations of École Polytechnique in September 2014. Since January 2013, Mathieu Le Traon had served as Associate Vice-President for International Relations at École Polytechnique, as he did before at École Centrale Paris. From 2006 to 2011, he headed the International Relations Department at ENSTA ParisTech. After graduating from Strasbourg University (École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) as a geophysicist engineer , Mathieu Le Traon began his career as deputy attaché for science and technology at the French Embassy to the Czech Republic, in Prague. In 2004, he graduated from the French-Czech Institute of Management, in partnership with University Lyon 3, with a Master degree in Business Administration, and became segment manager for VIP clientele at Komerční Banka (Société Générale Group) in Prague (Czech Republic). In September 2005, he joined the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs as project manager at the Innovation and Technological Development Department of the Academic and Research Cooperation Direction. For more than 10 years, Mathieu Le Traon has been working on implementing and developing internationaliza-tion in prominent French institutions of higher education and research, and on promoting international mobility of students and faculty. At École Polytechnique, he and his team are currently working on developing high quality international partnerships that blend academic & scientific cooperation, student and faculty mobility, cooperation in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as collaboration to raise awareness of the challenges facing tomorrow’s ever more global and technological society.

Mathieu Le Traon École PolytechniqueVice-PresidentFrance

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Eric Mauincomme has been president of INSA Lyon since 2011 and president of INSA Group since 2014. A graduate of INSA Lyon Electrical Engineering Department in 1988, he holdshis MS in electrical engineering from UC Davies and a PhD in biological and medical engineering EEA - INSA Lyon, he began his career as an assis-tant research engineer at the Laboratory CREATIS INSA Lyon and then at the University Hospital Leiden, the Netherlands. He received the 1995 prize for the best doctoral thesis in scientific disciplines.

In 1994, he joined GE Healthcare as an engineer in R & D Search X-rays. In 2000, he became head of the cardio-vascular segment globally.

In 2004, he joined Agfa HealthCare, as vice-chairman and member of the executive committee, in charge of strategy and development. In early 2008, he took over the responsibility of strategy, development, marketing and communications. Since 2005 he has been chairman of the Board of Directors of Agfa HealthCare France.

Author of seven patents, 30 publications (articles, abstracts, book chapters) and 50 interventions in various international and national conferences, he has been since 2008 member of the Board of COCIR, and since 2009, member of the Board of Directors of HIMSS Europe. Both institutions aim for the promotion and adoption of information technology in health care.

Eric MaurincommeINSA Lyon PresidentFrance

Marie-Pierre Favre was recruited by INSA Lyon as a project manager of the Asia sector in September 2005 and has been vice-president for International Relations since 2009.

International dimension has always been part of her working career and living environment. She lived abroad while studying and working, always dealing with cross-cultural issues and international business. A varied profes-sional experience, both in private sector and in higher education allows her to adapt consequently in international development.

Several leading positions in international offices of different higher education institutions provide her a solid back-ground to manage and promote successfully the international dimension within an extremely complex system. International mobility and international strategy are two major components within the framework of her current position.

Marie-Pierre FavreINSA LyonVice-PresidentFrance

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Georg Hans-U. HeissTU Berlin Vice-PresidentGermany

Georg Hans-Ulrich Heiss received his academic degrees, all in informatics, from Karlsruhe Institute of Technol-ogy in Germany. He had research and teaching positions at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, the University of Helsinki, the University of Ilmenau, and the University of Paderborn. Since 2001, he has been full professor of Computer Science at TU Berlin (Berlin Institute of Technology). In 2012, he was elected vice-president for education at TU Berlin, a position he still holds. His research interests include operating systems, distributed and parallel systems, IT-security, and performance evaluation.

From 2009 to 2014, he was chairman of the German Informatics Deans Conference, and since 2015 he is presi-dent of the German Council of Faculties in Engineering and Informatics. On the European level, he has been vice-president of Informatics Europe from 2012 to 2015.

He is also strongly involved in the area of academic quality assurance and accreditation. He was founding presi-dent from 2009 to 2014 of the European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education (EQANIE). He has been active as an auditor and evaluator in accreditations and evaluations at the national and international level for years.

Hana Milanov conducts research at the nexus of literatures in entrepreneurship, international business and social networks. Her interests lie in understanding the evolution of alliances and networks and their role in firm interna-tionalization, opportunity exploitation and firm performance. The research contexts include predominantly US venture capital, biotechnology and high technology industries.

Professor Milanov completed a MS in management and a PhD in entrepreneurship at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Before joining TUM, she was professor of entrepreneurship at IE Business School in Madrid, where she taught in the masters of international management, international MBA and executive MBA programs. Since 2014 she has been senior vice-president for international alliances and alumni. Furthermore she is the academic director of the Executive MBA in Innovation and Business Creation.

Hana MilanovTU München Vice-PresidentGermany

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Abdulai Salifu Asuro had his primary, secondary and teacher training education in Tamale. His bachelor’s and master’s degrees were earned at the University of Ghana, Legon. He continued to Indiana University, Blooming-ton, in the United States, where he received a PhD in Folklore. He is currently an associate professor of linguistics/folklore. He has been the rector of Tamale Polytechnic, one of the ten public polytechnics in Ghana since 2012 and oversees teaching and administrative affairs of the institution. Prior to his appointment, he served as the examinations officer and dean at the institution. He has teaching career at all levels, from primary, to secondary, teacher training, and in the university. He is on the editorial board of several journals, and also serves on the boards of the College of Education in Ghana.

Abdulai Salifu AsuroTamale Polytechnic RectorGhana

Steve Cannon joined the University of Hong Kong in 2013 as its first executive vice-president. He is the univer-sity's principal officer providing strategic leadership and oversight of professional services and administrative services across the university.

Immediately prior to joining HKU, he had held the position of secretary and director of operations at the University of Aberdeen in the UK. He has held senior management positions with the Scottish government, the universities of Dundee and at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. He began his career at the University of Warwick as an administrative assistant in the Registry before taking up the post of finance and administration manager at the newly established University of Warwick Science Park.

He has been a member of numerous committees, boards and task forces. For ten years until 2012 he repre-sented the United Kingdom on the Governing Board of the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) Program of the OECD.

He is a founding director of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Ltd (APRU) and a member of the govern-ing committee of the Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong; the Universitas 21 Managers Network; and of the Steer-ing Committee of International Sustainable Campus Network. He is a former member of Universities Scotland International Committee and is a former advisor to the Ministry of Education in Ethiopia and the Tertiary Educa-tion Council of Mauritius.

Steven CannonUniversity of Hong Kong Executive Vice-PresidentHong Kong

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György SzokolHKTCCSecretary GeneralHungary

György SZOKOL basic education is mechanical engineer and specialized welding engineer. He studied on the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and received his PhD in welding technology in 1973, after which he held a number of research and leadership positions at the Hungarian welding electrodes production factory and later in a material testing and quality assurance institute. His professional career was always connected with welding technology and material sciences. With wide range of experiences collected in production and supervising of quality, he joined to the local organization of the world class ESAB company. He worked for this company more than 27 years as technical adviser, head of the sales office and later on more than 15 years as the managing director of the local organization of the company in Hungary. He always concentrated for technical questions, introducing the most advance technological solutions in order to increase the competiveness of the partner companies. During his career continually remained in connection to the research and development activities. He publicized a few of articles in local technical periodicals about welding consumables (covered electrodes, flux cored wires, stainless steel electrodes), welding robots (early applications), welding quality assurance in process and power industry. He is co-author of local Welding Handbook and author of welders’ education handbook. Since 2008 he is the Secretary-General of the Hungarian-Korean Technical Cooperation Center Foundation in Budapest. Foundation main task is the support of cooperation between the Hungarian and Korean experts mainly on field of technical sciences.

Memberships: Funding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering – Member of the Board – President of Nominating Committee Committee of Welding Technology of Hungarian Academy of Science Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineers

Kadarsah Suryadi is the rector of Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. He graduated from the under-graduate program of industrial engineering of ITB in 1986. He pursued higher education in France, where he earned a master’s degree in technology innovation management at Industrial Engineering Department from École Centrale Paris in 1988, and then he earned his PhD from Universite d’Aix Marsaille-3 in 1992, majoring in computer aided decision support system in production management.

He has extensive experience in university management. Before being assigned as rector, he was appointed vice-rector for academic and several key positions in the university. He is also a professor and scientist in the Faculty of Industrial Technology and his research interest is in decision making. His papers have been published in international journals as well as presented in international conferences and seminars.

Kadarsah SuryadiBandung Institute of Technology RectorIndonesia

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Edwan Kardena is currently director of partnership and international relation at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). He earned his PhD in 1995 from University of Wales College of Cardiff, UK. He participated in short post-doctoral training at University of New South Wales, Australia in 1996, then in Hokkaido University, Japan under JSPS Program in 1997, and in University of Kent at Canterbury, UK from 1998.

Since 2010, as a director in charge of international cooperation of ITB, Dr. Kardena has been very active in a number of international and regional network such as ASEAN University Network (AUN) and also ASEAN Euro-pean University Network (ASEA-Uninet).

He is currently a reviewer for the scholarship program of the Directorate General of Higher Education Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesia. Dr. Edwan Kardena is also an associate professor in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research interest is in the biodegradation of organic pollutants and its application in soil and water. He has a significant number of publications in that specific area.

Edwan KardenaBandung Institute of Technology Director of PartnersIndonesia

Trevor Homes is vice-president for external relations and strategic affairs in 2014. He is a member of the senior management team of the university and holds responsibility for external relations, media relations, marketing, student recruitment, internationalization and a number of university projects outlined in its strategic plan, "Trans-forming Lives and Societies".

He was a board member of the Cork University Foundation. He also served on a number of Irish University Asso-ciation committees. Mr. Holmes entered public service from employment within the multinational enterprise sector when he joined IDA Ireland as the head of corporate communications at the start of 2008. His responsibili-ties included international and domestic media relations, brand management, marketing research and the coordi-nation between IDA and government on enterprise related communications.

During his time at IDA Ireland, he oversaw the creation and implementation of a global marketing campaign using the tag-line “Ireland – Innovation comes naturally”. The campaign has been implemented with leading interna-tional media outlets such as Bloomberg, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, Barons and the Economist. He has also been instrumental in a complete redesign of the IDA’s online presence.

Trevor HolmesDublin City UniversityVice-PresidentIreland

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Juliette HusseyTrinity College DublinVice-PresidentIreland

Juliette Hussey is the vice-president for global relations and has responsibility for strengthening the university's international strategies and external relationships, both national and international, to effectively deliver the college's core mission in education and research.

Professor Hussey is head of discipline and associate professor in the Department of Physiotherapy. The focus of her research lies in the broad area of exercise in the management and prevention of disease. The ultimate aim of this work is translational; focused on improving scientific exercise prescription to optimize therapeutic responses to exercise interventions in chronic disease and particularly cancer.

She joined the university in 1992 as a lecturer in physiotherapy. Prior to that, she had worked as a clinical physi-otherapist in the Mater Hospital in Dublin and then in Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London, where she completed an MS in King’s College London. She has been head of physiotherapy since 2003 and developed two postgraduate programs as well as increasing the postgraduate research activity within the discipline. In 2010-2011 she led discussions with Singapore Institute of Technology regarding the Bachelor in Science programs in occupational therapy and physiotherapy. She was elected to fellowship in TCD in 2011.

Marco Gilli holds a PhD in electronics engineering from Politecnico di Torino, where he also received his master’s degree in electronics engineering, He has spent all of his academic career at Politecnico di Torino, first as researcher, then as associate professor and from October 2000 as full professor of electrical engineering at the First Faculty of Engineering. He teaches courses on electrical engineering and circuit theory for undergraduate students and courses on nonlinear circuits and systems for graduate and doctoral students.

He spent several periods abroad as visiting professor at UC Berkeley the United States, Hungarian Academy of Science and Peter Pazmany University-Budapest, and Helsinki University of Technology.

His research interests are in nonlinear circuits and systems, neural networks theory and applications, cellular neural networks, and electromagnetic compatibility. Rector Gilli authored and co-authored approximately 150 scientific publications in international journals and in the proceedings of international conferences. He is editor in chief of the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications and Associate Editor of the Institute of Electri-cal and Electronics Engineers.

Marco GilliPolitecnico Di Torino RectorItaly

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As vice-president for global academic relations of the digital information solution company Elsevier, Dr. Anders Karlsson engages with key academic and governmental stakeholders on how Elsevier can best support them to strengthen their research and innovation capabilities. As a spokesperson for Elsevier, he is a frequent speaker on global science trends, research management and how technology is transforming scientific discovery. Recent speaking engagements and collaborations include British Council East Asia, the EU delegation to Japan, the Association of Asia Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), as well as numerous presentations at Elsevier co-organized events in the Asia Pacific Region.

He has contributed to two Elsevier science trend reports on stem cell technology and on brain science. Currently, he also has an advisory position at the Institute of Academic Initiatives at Osaka University in Japan. Prior to joining Elsevier, he was active in Science Diplomacy, serving for five years as Counselor for Science and Innova-tion and head of the Office of Science and Innovation at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo, also covering South Korea. In this position he co-wrote a number of policy reports and presentations, and coordinated a number of high-level visits from Sweden in the Science and Innovation area to Japan and Korea.

He received an MS in engineering physics in 1987, and in 1992 a PhD in electrical engineering, both from the Royal Institute of Technology – KTH in Sweden. From 2001 to 2011 he held a position as professor of quantum photonics at KTH, being active in teaching, research, and research management.

Anders KarlssonElsevierVice-PresidentJapan

Hideyo Kunieda is vice-president in charge of research and student support at Nagoya University, where he is professor at the Department of Physics at the School of Science. He graduated from Nagoya University in 1975, and holds a PhD in physics (1982) from the same university.

He became professor at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Kanagawa, Japan (1999-2005), and then joined Nagoya University as professor in 2005. From 2009 to 2012, he was the dean of the School of Science at Nagoya University. Professor Kunieda has served as a committee member of the International Astro-nomical Union Division IX since 2005, and was the president of the Astronomical Society of Japan (2010-2011).

He is also an associate member of the Science Council of Japan (2011-2017). He has been involved in many X-ray Astronomy missions by developing X-ray telescopes. He was the visiting researcher at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA from 1986 to 1988. It was the start of the long-lived, close collaboration with them for the developments of X-ray telescopes.

He has been involved in six satellites and several balloon experiments. Major targets are active galactic nuclei which may harbor massive black holes. He has published 126 refereed papers (including 12 papers at Nature) and a comparable number of non-refereed papers and proceedings. At Nagoya University, he is responsible for the research activity as well as student support.

Hideyo KuniedaNagoya UniversityVice-PresidentJapan

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Makoto ItoTsukuba University Vice-PresidentJapan

Makoto Ito, appointed vice-president for education at the University of Tsukuba in April 2015, has been professor of linguistics since 2005. Prior to his work at the university, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation visiting researcher in the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim, Germany, for a year in 1997. He earned his Ph.D. in German Linguistics from Gakushuin University. His research interests focused on various aspects of German linguistics. A member of German academic societies in Japan such as the Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Germanistik, Humboldt-Klub Ost, and Japanische Gessellschaft fuer Germanistik, Professor Ito has authored several journal articles and books in both German and Japanese.

Yanghee Choi was appointed the Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning in 2014 after serving as chairman of the Samsung Science and Technology Foundation. He received his BS degree in electronics engineering at Seoul National University and went on to KAIST for his master’s in electrical engineering and to École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, for his doctoral degree in engineering in computer science.

Joining Seoul National University in 1991, he was a full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and was a leader of a number of research units, such as the Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology of Seoul National University.

His accomplishments and dedication to the advancement of science and technology have been widely recog-nized through many commendations, including the Prize of Leap – the Commendation of Science and Technol-ogy, the Internet Technology Award, and the Achievement Award from the Korea Internet Awards.

Yanghee ChoiMinister of Science, ICT and Future PlanningKorea

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Kun Mo Chung is an internationally renowned nuclear engineer, technocrat, and educator. He played the crucial role in founding KAIST in 1971 and served two terms as minister of science and technology in Korea from 1990 to 1996.

In 1970, the Korean government promulgated a law that permitted the establishment of Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIS), which later became KAIST. The principal objective of KAIS was to assist the economic devel-opment of Korea by providing the nation with superior graduate training in applied science and engineering oriented toward the technological needs of Korean industry.

Dr. Chung was part of a five-member survey team sent to Korea by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1970 to study the proposed KAIS. The team, chaired by Dr. Frederick Terman, former provost at Stanford University, evaluated the concept and feasibility of KAIS and advised the Korean government on how best to implement the concept. The team presented the so-called Terman Report to USAID, summarizing that establishing KAIST would be necessary and useful. Dr. Chung wrote the original proposal to establish KAIST and later served as KAIST's founding provost.

He is also internationally acclaimed for his innovations in the design of electric power generation plants and for his studies and implementation of science and technology policy instruments.

The Korea Power Engineering Company, which he headed in the 1980s, has become one of the leading engineering companies in the world. The Korea Standardized Nuclear Power Plant Design was initiated, devel-oped, and implemented under his leadership. His career in nuclear engineering has been recognized worldwide. He was president of the General Conference of International Atomic Energy Agency of the UN from 1989 to 1990, and chairman of the International Nuclear Energy Academy from 1992 to 1994, and in 1998.

As an educator, Dr. Chung, who earned his PhD in physics from Michigan State University, has been a professor of energy engineering at MIT, Polytechnic Institute of New York, KAIST, Ajou University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and George Mason University.

Kun Mo ChungFormer Minister of Science and TechnologyKorea

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Sung-Chul ShinDGISTPresidentKorea

Sung-Chul Shin is the president of DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) and the vice-chairperson of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology, which is chaired by President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea. Dr. Shin has led DGIST since 2011 after more than 20 years at KAIST as the chair professor of physics, the director of the Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, and the university’s vice-president.

Dr. Su-Il In is the dean of External and International Affairs and an assistant professor of energy systems engineering at DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology). Prior to this, Dr. In worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the Center for Solar Nanomaterials of the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. In holds his PhD in chemistry from the University of Cambridge and an MS in chemistry from KAIST.

Su-Il InDGISTDean of External and International AffairsKorea

Myung-Ja Kim, the former minister of environment, currently serves as the chairperson of the Korean Business Council on Sustainable Development and in February was elected as the first female president in the 50-year history of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. She also serves as a board member or a special advisor for about 40 private and public institutions, including the Korean Academy of Science and Tech-nology and the Korean Academy of Environment Science.

From 2004 to 2008, she was a member of the National Assembly, sitting on the Defense Committee as vice-chairperson and also as chairperson of the Ethics Committee of the National Assembly. Prior to her election as a lawmaker, Dr. Kim served as the Minister of Environment from 1999 to 2003. Under her leadership, the ministry was decorated with the Excellence in Government Administration Award for two consecutive years, 2001 and 2002.

Myung-Ja KimFormer Minister of Environment and President-Elect of the Korean Federation of Science & Technology SocietiesKorea

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Soon Heung Chang is the president of Handong Global University in Korea. He was a professor and lecturer in the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering at KAIST from 1982 until his presidency at Handong, teaching courses in nuclear reactor safety, nuclear power plant design, and nuclear computation. In addition to these teaching career, he served as the provost at KAIST, commissioner for the Korea Nuclear Safety Commis-sion, a member of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group within the IAEA, and a member of the Interna-tional Advisors for the Investigation Committee on the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations.

He is a frequent plenary speaker, a lead consultant for many large initiatives, and author of numerous journal articles. Dr. Chang is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety and is Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safety and Security within Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission. He received his BA in nuclear engineering from Seoul National University and both his MS and PhD in nuclear engineering from the MIT.

Soon Heung ChangHandong Global UniversityPresidentKorea

Young Moo Lee is currently Hanyang Distinguished Professor of Energy Engineering and serves as President at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. degree at Hanyang University in 1977 and 1979, respectively, and his PhD in Fiber and Polymer Science at North Carolina State University in 1985. He was a postdoc at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1986) in Troy, New York and employed at 3M Center in St. Paul, Minnesota (1987-1988). Dr. Lee is engaged in novel membranes materials and processes for gas and vapor separation including thermally rearranged polymer materials, carbon-silica membranes, organic-inorganic hybrid membranes, surface modified membranes since 1988. Dr Lee’s present research also includes design of novel polymers for fuel cell. Dr. Lee received numerous awards; among them are the Best Paper Award from the Mem-brane Society of Korea (2003), Best Teacher Award from Hanyang University (2000), selected as 100 Top Research Award by Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea (2008), and Top 50 Research Award by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (2008). He won the First Green Technology Grand Prize from Korean government (2010), Knowledge Creation Grand Award (2010) and Kyung-Am Academic Award (2012). Dr. Lee published more than 340 papers, is an author of five books and eight book chapters, and owns 120 patents. As of March, 2015, the h-index is 64, citations of 340 papers are over 14,000. He has trained over 130 MS and PhD students. He served as an Editor of Journal of Membrane Science from 2004 and was on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (2005-2007). He serves for six years as an Executive Board Member of Board of Trustee, LG Chemical Co. from 2004. He is a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, member of Korean Polymer Society, Korean Chemical Engineering Society, former President of Korean Membrane Society, and former President of Aseanian Membrane Society.

Young Moo LeeHanyang UniversityPresidentKorea

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Dr. KiJeong Lee is the Vice President of the Office of International Cooperation and Professor of Linguistics at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. He received a B.A. with a major in English from Hanyang University before receiving an M.A. and doctorate degree in linguistics from the University of Minnesota in 1992. Dr. Lee served as the President of Korean Association of Foreign Students Administrators (KAFSA) and the Chairman of the Evaluation Committee for University Internationalization, Ministry of Education and Human Resources. In addition, he served as the President of Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea from 2006 to 2008, and the Chairman of Organizing Committee for the 1st World Congress of Scholars of English Linguistics held in Korea, 2012. He is currently serving as the Vice President of Asia-Pacific Association of International Educators (APAIE).

Kijeong LeeHanyang UniversityVice-PresidentKorea

Dr. Sung-Hyon Myaeng is currently the Associate Vice President of the International Office and a professor in School of Computing at KAIST, where he created the Web Science & Technology Division in 2010. He is also the director of KAIST-Microsoft Research Collaboration Center (KMCC). Previously he was on the faculty at Syra-cuse University, USA, where he was granted tenure in 1994. He earned his MS and PhD from Southern Method-ist University in Texas in 1985 and 1987, respectively.

His research has been in the intersection between lexical & semantic aspects in natural language processing and unconventional search techniques in information retrieval, currently focusing on various text mining problems such as human experience mining, trend analysis, & open information extraction from various types of text for various applications like question answering, healthcare services, and disaster management.

He has served on program committees of many reputable international conferences in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, and Word Wide Web, including his role as a co-program chair for ACM SIGIR, 2002 and 2008. In 2008, he won an award from Microsoft Research, based on global competition for the RFP ‘Beyond Search – Semantic Computing and Internet Economics’.

Sung-Hyon MyaengKAIST Associate Vice President of International Office, Co-Chair of IPFGRUKorea

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Euiho SuhPohang University of Science and TechnologyChair, UEMCKorea

Euiho Suh received his BS from Seoul National University in 1975, an MS in industrial engineering from KAIST in 1977 and an MS in management sciences from Stanford University in 1982. He received his PhD in manage-ment of information and technology from the School of Business of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1986. Before joining POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) in 1989, he taught at Tennessee Tech and Oklahoma State University in the United States as a full-time faculty member.

Professor Suh is currently teaching at the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering of POSTECH with a split appointment with the Graduate School of Engineering Mastership (GEM) as director of international relations.

He is the former special advisor to former POSTECH president from 2007 to 2011. Currently, he is the chair of POSTECH’s strategic steering committee, the University Evaluation and Management Committee, and the Advisory Committee for University Evaluation. Professor Suh has led the POSTECH's globalization in different capacities by assessing its outside evaluations to coordinate management strategies.

Seung Bin ParkKAISTVice President of Planning and BudgetKorea

Professor Seung Bin Park is the Vice President of Planning and Budget and a professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST, a position in which he oversees the budgetary matters and mid to long-term planning on the institutional level in assistant to the president.

Professor Park has been the dean of the College of Engineering for 4 years following his 6-year service as the head for Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

He started his career as an assistant professor of the same department at KAIST in 1989 right after receiving his PhD degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University. He worked for Korea Institute of Science and Tech-nology (KIST) as a researcher right after his MS degree from KAIST and went to Purdue University for his PhD study.

His recent research interests cover mainly a novel method of processing materials by using spray pyrolysis and its application to energy-related devices such as batteries and fuel cells. Recently, he summarized his research work on this area and published it as a review paper in the Journal of Advanced Powder Technology (Elsevier), which has been downloaded more than 600 times in less than a couple of months.

He is a senior member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) and the chair of the International Relations Committee of NAEK.

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Shi-Woo Rhee is the first dean of engineering at the Sookmyung Women’s University. Dean Rhee, a renowned professor in the areas of new materials, played the critical role in founding the engineering school at the women’s university this year. He taught at POSTECH for about 30 years before taking the new position at Sookmyung this year. He holds his PhD in chemical engineering at MIT.

Shi-Woo RheeSookmyung Women's University Dean of EngineeringKorea

Sun Hye Hwang is the 18th president of Sookmyung Women’s University. Since 1991, she has been a professor of the Department of English Language and Literature at Sookmyung. She was the founding dean of the school of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Language) at Sookmyung from 1997 to 2000. She also served as the dean of Student Affairs, and the dean of the Graduate School of Education, and the College of Liberal Arts. She was the president of the Sociolinguistic Society of Korea in 2002 and 2003 and the Applied Linguistic Association of Korea in 2007 and 2008. She is the chairperson of the Korean National Ballet. She also serves as a member of Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology.

Sun Hye HwangSookmyung Women's University PresidentKorea

EducationDr. Kyu Sang Chung has had a long and decorated career in education, law, and scholarly pursuits. He received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees from Sungkyunkwan University’s Department of Law in 1976, 1983, and 1994, respectfully.

Professional ExperiencesFrom 1989 to 1998 he was a full-time lecturer, then assistant professor, and then an associate professor at SKKU’s Department of Law. From 1996 to 1997 he was a visiting scholar at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He became a tenured professor in SKKU’s Dept. of Law in 1999, a position he still holds. From 1998 to 2007 he was the Director of the Sungkyunkwan University Press, Vice President of Student Affairs, and Dean of the Law School. From 2007 to 2008 he was a visiting scholar at Peking University in China. Between 2013 and 2014, Dr. Chung was the Executive Vice President and from 2015 to the present he has been the President of the Sungkyunkwan University.

Professional ActivitiesHe passed the South Korean bar exam in 1983. From 1991 to 1996 he was a member of the Special Subcommit-tee for Legislating Special Civil Law at the Ministry of Justice of Korea. From 2000 to 2001 Dr. Chung was a member of the Special Subcommittee for Revising Special Civil Law for the Korean Ministry of Justice. From 2010 to 2012 he was the President of the Korea Association of the Law of Civil Procedure and also the President of the Association of Korean Civil Judgment Enforcement Law.

Kyu Sang Chung Sungkyunkwan UniversityPresidentKorea

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EducationDr. Suke Kyu Lee has had a diverse and esteemed career both professionally and academically. He received his BBA and MBA in marketing from Seoul National University in 1987 and 1989, respectfully. Next, he acquired an MBA in marketing from SUNY Buffalo in 1995. He obtained his Ph.D. in marketing models from the University of Southern California.

Academic CareerFrom 1990 to 1993 he was a researcher at Hanyang Research Institute of Distribution and Economics. He was an assistant professor from 2000 to 2001 at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Lee was an assistant professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul from 2001 to 2004. Since 2004, Dr. Lee has been a professor of marketing at SKKU’s Business School. From 2013 to the present he has been the Vice President of International Affairs at Sungkyunkwan University.

Industry CareerFrom 2003 to 2009 Dr. Lee was a marketing advisor for SK Telecom FMI. Since 2004 he has been a marketing advisor for Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. From 2006 to 2008 he was a marketing advisor for Sam-sung Everand. From 2006 to 2009 he was a marketing advisor for Woongin Coways. In 2009 he was a market-ing advisor for NongShim. From 2009 to 2010 he was a marketing advisor for SK C&C CEO Academy. From 2009 to 2012 he was a marketing professor of the Advanced Mini-MBA Course for Financial Consultants of Sam-sung Life Insurance. From 2011 to 2012 he was the Program Director for Marketing Export Training for Samsung Fire and Insurance.

Other ActivitiesSince 2004, he has been a part of the Korean Management Association and Korean Consumer Research Asso-ciation. From 2005 Dr. Lee has been an executive director member of Korean Marketing Associations and a part of the Korean Advertising Association. From 2005 to 2006 he was a UNESCAP Consultant for the Laos govern-ment. Since 2007 he has been a marketing advisor for the National Information Promotion Agencies. From 2008 to 2012 he was a marketing advisor for the Korean Baseball Organization. From 2009 to 2013 he was a presi-dential advisor member for the IT and Broadcaster Industry. Between 2009 and 2011, he was the Chief Editor for the Korean Consumption Cultural Association with the Korean Consumer Research Association and from 2011 to 2012 he was the Co-Editor for the Journal of Product and Commodities. From 2008 he has been with the Korean Consumption and Cultural Association and from 2011 he has also been with the Service Marking Association.

Suke Kyu LeeSungkyunkwan UniversityVice-PresidentKorea

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Moo Young Jung became the third president of UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) in 2015. He had previously served as provost, vice-president, and dean at UNIST since July 1, 2008. He received his BS in aeronautical engineering from Seoul National University in 1972 and received his MS and PhD in indus-trial engineering from Kansas State University in the United States in 1981 and 1984, respectively. He was with the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville for two years and at Pohang University of Science and Technology for 22 years before he joined UNIST in 2008.

He is a founding member of the International Industrial Engineers Association, a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, a fellow of the Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers(KIIE), and a fellow of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering.

He received the Back-Am Best Paper Award in 1992 and the Academic Achievement Award in 1997 from KIIE. He has published more than 200 research papers in the fields of manufacturing systems engineering, intelligent manufacturing, and agile manufacturing. His current research interests include applications of fractal concepts to management and energy systems.

Moo Young JungUNISTPresidentKorea

Jae Sung Lee UNISTVice-PresidentKorea

Jae Sung Lee is the vice-president of academics of UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology). He is responsible for academic affairs, student admissions, student affairs, and academic information. He is also a professor of energy and chemical engineering at UNIST. He joined UNIST in 2013 from POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), where he also served as vice-president of academics and dean of admissions/student affairs.

Overall he has 30 years of experience in teaching and research in catalysis and energy technologies. He obtained his PhD in chemical engineering from Stanford University, MS from KAIST, and BS from Seoul National University. He worked for Catalytica as a research fellow from 1984 to 1986, and was a visiting professor at Yale University from 1993 to 1994.

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Ho Chin Siong is professor of Faculty Built Environment, and director of international relations at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is the project leader of UTM-Low Carbon Asia research center and principal researcher on sustainable cities in Malaysia under UTM-MIT USA program. He is a chartered member of Chartered Institute of Logistic and Transport (CILT), registered member of the Board of Town Planning Malaysia and corporate member of Malaysian Institute of Planners (MIP). He received bachelor’s degree of Urban and Regional Planning from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1983, MS in construction management from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh in 1987 and PhD in engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan (1994).

He was a post-doctoral fellow under Hitachi Komai Scholarship to Japan (1995) and Royal Society of Malaysia / Chevening Scholarship to United Kingdom (2005), and visiting scientist under a Japan Society Promotion of Science-Vice Chancellor Council Grant (2005-2010). He is also project manager for Development Low Carbon Society Scenario for Asian Regions, working closely with Kyoto University, Okayama University and the National Institute Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba sponsored under SATREPS program by JICA and JST Japan from 2011 to 2016. His current research areas of interest are in low carbon and green city planning, sustainable urban development, energy efficient cities, and Built Environment education. He has published many papers in international journals and books.

Chin Siong Ho Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Director of International RelationsMalaysia

Manuel Zertuche Guerra is currently dean of the School of Engineering and Science, in Tecnológico de Monter-rey. His position also covers his role as the director of the School of Biotechnology and Foods of the same Institute.

He holds the position of president of the Cluster de Servicios de Investigación of N.L. He was president of the Cluster de Biotecnología of the same state. He was executive director of the “Cross Border for Institute Regional Development” initiative organized by the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas. Throughout his career, he worked with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and UNESCO, among others.

Dr. Zertuche is consultant and advisor for national organizations such as Consejo Nacional Agropecuario, Fundaciones Produce, and other scientific organizations in Mexico and Latin America. He has led many scientific and technological initiatives with many Mexican and foreign business groups, as well as micro and small enter-prises. In the scientific field, Dr. Zertuche is involved in the development of new products from plant materials with nutraceutical and therapeutical properties. He is also involved in the expression of recombinant products expressed in vegetable matrices. He has co-designed and managed new technological development areas in different disciplines such as functional foods, bioprocess engineering and agro biotechnology.

Manuel ZertucheMonterrey Institute of Technology and Higher EducationDeanMexico

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Victor van der ChijsUniversity of TwentePresidentThe Netherlands

Victor van der Chijs studied law in Amsterdam and completed postgraduate education at the Amsterdam School of International Relations and INSEAD in France. Van der Chijs worked at ING, lastly as vice-president of struc-tured and project finance in Hong Kong. In 1998 he started at Schiphol Group, first as director of public affairs, while in later years he became responsible for Schiphol’s activities the United States. In 2003, he took on respon-sibility for all of Schiphol’s international activities. A year later he was asked by Rem Koolhaas to take on the management of OMA, wherein recent years Van der Chijs was able to manage the structure, processes and culture of OMA in such a way that he allowed room for the professionalism of the architects, resulting in a newly focused organization. This development has contributed to OMA’s leading position as a world-class, creative enterprise.

Victor van der Chijs was chairman of the Topteam Creative Industry in the Netherlands, one of the nine top sectors that the Dutch government has set up to strengthen the Dutch economy. In addition, he is a member of the supervisory board of Kennisland, which designs and make interventions to strengthen the knowledge society.

Gino Ussi is executive vice-president at Elsevier. He has an MS in change management from Oxford Saïd Business school; a BA in strategy from Aston Business School and Marketing Communications from Witwa-tersrand. He joined Elsevier in the role of executive vice-president of research solutions sales in July 2014. From Novem-ber 2012 until July 2014 he served as managing director of the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America region for Elsevier Health Sciences.

Prior to joining Elsevier, he was with IHS Inc., where he was responsible for the company's markets outside of the Americas. Prior to that, he served as president of Global Insight Inc., the world's largest economic forecasting company, and previously he was CEO of the World Markets Research Center, which was listed on the London Stock Exchange.

He served as a member of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe team of specialists for Internet and e-Commerce Development.

Gino UssiElsevier Executive Vice-PresidentThe Netherlands

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Johan E. Hustad is pro-rector of innovation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. He has a PhD in combustion science from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. He was research manager at SINTEF Energy for six years. He is a professor in industrial combustion systems and energy savings in industry at NTNU and was previously a professor in solid fuel combustion in the Nordic Energy Research Program for three years and visiting professor at Stanford University for one year.

He was the activity leader in the International Energy Agency, Bioenergy Agreement for six years. He was department director at thermal energy and hydropower and later at energy and process engineering at NTNU and manager of the Center for Renewable Energy at NTNU, SINTEF and IFE. He has been involved in four start-up companies and is a member of several boards of companies and committees, among them chairman of the Board of Technoport.

Johan E. HustadNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyPro-RectorNorway

Ashfaque Hasan Khan is the principal and dean of School of Social Sciences and Humanities at National Univer-sity of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad as well as a member of the economic advisory council of the Government of Pakistan. He has been appointed as a member of the senate of the National Defense University, Islamabad by the president of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has appointed him as a member of the Senate of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islama-bad. He has also been elected as a member of the board of trustees of the International Islamic University, Islamabad. He is also a member of the board of governors of the Foundation University, Islamabad. Dr. Khan was the special secretary finance/director general, Debt Office and Economic Adviser Ministry of Finance, Islamabad for eleven years from 1998 to 2009. He also was the spokesperson of the government of Pakistan on economic issues during the same period. He was the director and vice-chairman of the Saudi-Pak Industrial and Agricultural Investment Company Ltd., a joint venture of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan; and Director of the United Bank Limited, representing government’s shares in the Bank, and Pak-Libya Holding Company, a Joint venture of Pakistan and Libya. He holds a PhD degree in economics from Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Pakistan Institute of Develop-ment Economics in 1979 as research economist, where he held increasingly senior positions. He was joint direc-tor of the Institute before being appointed economic adviser of the Ministry of Finance in 1998. In 2003, he was appointed director general of the Debt Office of the Ministry of Finance.

Ashfaque Hasan KhanNational University of Sciences and Technology Principal & DeanPakistan

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Thomas Magnanti is the founding president of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and an institute professor and former dean of engineering at MIT. He has devoted much of his professional career to education that combines engineering and management, and to teaching and research in applied and theoretical aspects of large-scale optimization.

At SUTD, he has led the development of a university whose mission is to advance knowledge and nurture techni-cally grounded leaders to serve societal needs, through a focus on design and an integrated multidisciplinary curriculum.

He was the founding co-director of MIT’s Leaders for Manufacturing and System Design and Management Programs, and founding director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). He has served as president of three major professional societies and as editor of the journal Operations Research. He has also served on several university, corporate and government boards and councils.

Professor Magnanti has received numerous educational and research awards, including four honorary degrees. He has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Syracuse University, and masters’ degrees in statistics and in mathematics as well as a PhD in operations research, all from Stanford University.

Thomas MagnantiSingapore University of Technology DesignPresidentSingapore

Khin Yong Lam is the chief of staff and vice-president of research at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prior to his current appointment, he was CEO of NTU Innovation from 2012 to 2013, associate provost for Gradu-ate Education & Special Projects from 2008 to 2011 and the chair of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from 2006 to 2008.

Professor Lam has held many key academic, research and administrative appointments including his current appointment as executive director of IPI Limited, scientific director of the Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab, co-chair of the NTU-ST Engineering Corporate Lab Management Board, co-scientific advisory director for TUM-CREATE and co-chair of the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre of Singapore. He also serves on several international advisory committees, including the Tokyo Tech Advisory Board and the Alstom Interna-tional Science and Technology Committee.

His research interests lie in the area of computational mechanics and computational methods in engineering, multi-scale simulations and computational nanoscience/BioMEMs/hydrogels. He was the founding director of the Center for Computational Mechanics and the NUS-MINDEF Underwater Shock Laboratory. In addition, he was the program director of the IHPC-MINDEF High Performance Computing Center. He was also the founding executive director of the Institute of High Performance Computing and the founding executive director of the A*Star Graduate Academy.

Khin Yong LamNanyang Technological University Chief of Staff and Vice-President (Research)Singapore

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Professor Tshilidzi Marwala is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research, Postgraduate Studies and the Library at the University of Johannesburg. He was previously the Dean of Engineering at the University of Johan-nesburg as well as a full Professor of Electrical Engineering, the SARChI Chair of Systems Engineering and an associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (magna cum laude) from Case Western Reserve University (USA), a Master of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria, a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge University, was a post-doctoral research associate at the Imperial College and completed a Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School.

He is a registered professional engineer, a Fellow of TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Science of South Africa, The African Academy of Sciences, CSIR and the South African Academy of Engineer-ing. He has published 6 books, over 260 papers, holds 3 international patents and is an associate editor of the International Journal of Systems Science.

Tshilidzi MarwalaUniversity of JohannesburgDeputy Vice-ChancellorSouth Africa

Kiat Seng Yeo Singapore University of Technology DesignAssociate ProvostSingapore

Kiat Seng Yeo was an associate chair of research, founding director of VIRTUS, and head of Circuits and Systems in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. He was a fellow of the Renaissance Engineering Program and served as advisory board member and senator at NTU. Currently, he is a member of board of advisors of the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association and a coun-cil member of the Assembly and Test WSQ Framework Industry Skills and Training of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques in the United /States.

He is a world-renowned authority on low-power RF/mm-wave IC design and a recognized expert in CMOS technology. He has secured over S$30 million of research funding and published six books, five book chapters and 500 papers and holds 35 patents. He received his B.Eng (with honors in electrical engineering) in 1993 and PhD in electrical engineering in 1996 from NTU. He is an IEEE fellow.

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Mongkol Techakumphu Chulalongkorn University Vice-PresidentThailand

Mongkol Techakumphu is professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Chulalongkorn University. In 1988, he joined the Faculty of Animal Reproduction, where he earned his PhD from the University of Paris VI (Pierre Marie Curie) in 1984.

He has been the head of the Department of Obstetrics Gynaecology and Reproduction, the deputy dean of research and planning, the dean of the faculty and presently. Now as the vice-president, he oversees the research affairs of the university.

He received a PhD scholarship from French government to study in France in 1984 to 1989 and came back to join CP agro-industrial company as a veterinarian services officer and researcher taking care for swine produc-tion. Since 1984, he has done a lot of research in farm animal reproduction, and reproductive technology such as artificial insemination, embryo transfer, IVF, cloning and stem cell techniques. He produced a number of successful MS and PhD students, now working in public universities and private companies in Thailand.

Hans Hebert is the dean of the School of Technology and Health at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stock-holm. Since 2005, he has been a professor of biotechnology at KTH and before that professor of molecular biophysics at Lund University. Since 1990, he has also been leader of a research group at Department of Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm focusing on the relationship between structure and function of biological macromolecules/complexes. The main technique used is transmission electron microscopy, and he was president of the Nordic Microscopy Society and a member of the executive board for the European Micros-copy Society.

Professor Hebert has written about 150 original articles in scientific journals and supervised about 20 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. He spent one year as a post-doctor at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemis-try in Munich and was a recipient of a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for being a guest researcher at the same institute.

He is chairman of the Jonasson Center for Medical Imaging, a KTH center that was created on the basis of a private donation and is aimed at providing advanced infrastructure in the field of biomedical imaging to be used both for research and in health care. He is also a member of the international advisory boards for two Danish research centers in the field of molecular and structural biology. He has also been partner of several EU projects and acted as scientific coordinator for one of these.

Hans HebertKTH Royal Institute of Technology DeanSweden

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Rattachat MongkolnavinChulalongkorn University Assistant ProfessorThailand

Rattachat Mongkolnavin was former Assistant to the President for International Affairs at Chulalongkorn Univer-sity, Thailand. He is currently the Head of the Department of Physics. He was educated in Britain and obtained a Ph.D. in Particle Physics from Imperial College, London. He was appointed as an advisor to the Parliament Board of Commissioner for Science and Technology. His expertise is in Elementary Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Plasma Physics.

Sornnate AreesophonpichetChlalongkorn UniversityICO ManagerThailand

Dr. Sornnate Areesophonpichet is a manager of Coordinate Academic and Industry Collaboration Office, and also a lecturer in higher education division, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University. She graduated PhD from the Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University.

She has expertise in policy and strategic management in higher education. Now she is currently responsibility for driving the coordination between university and industry collaboration that leads to innovative development.

Sansanee Chaiyaroj is the vice-president for research and international relations at Mahidol University, Thailand’s most research-focused university. In this role, she oversees the expansion of the university’s research, intellectual properties management, academic services, student/staff mobility and partnership strategies. Professor Chaiyaroj previously served as the vice-president for research and academic affairs of Mahidol Univer-sity from 2008 to 2013. She is the key person in the establishment of Mahidol University’s biopharmaceuticals pilot plant facility and Siam Bioscience Company, the first biopharmaceutical production company in Thailand jointly operated by the Crown Property Bureau Equity Company and Mahidol University. She has also taken executive positions in scientific committees and advisory boards, at both national and international levels, includ-ing the Association of Regional Manufacturers of Affordable Biopharmaceuticals; the National Research Council of Thailand; the Office of Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education of the Royal Thai Government; the Creative Academy Board, Ministry of Commerce; and the Council of the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA). Professor Chaiyaroj holds a MS and PhD degrees from Georgetown University. Her research interests center on immunology of infectious diseases. She has authored over 60 scientific articles in international journals and has received numerous awards and recognitions including the prestigious Thailand Young Scientist Award, the L’Oreal “Woman in Science” Research Award, and the National Research Council of Thailand award for her work on placental malaria infection and pathogenesis.

Sansanee ChaiyarojMahidol University Vice-PresidentThailand

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Prof. Jackrit Suthakorn is the Dean of Engineering at Mahidol University, Thailand. He oversees the Faculty of Engineering to generate world class interdisciplinary engineering innovation, research, and academics to develop graduates with systematic thinking, altruism and readiness in advancing engineering and technology for better living of Thai and global communities. Under his leadership, Mahidol Engineering is focusing on “Health Care Engineering,” including, Biomedical Engineering, Health Care Logistics, Health Care IT and IoT, Medical Robotics, Food and Pharmaceutical Engineering, and Bioelectronics and Biosensors. This is based on the strength of Mahidol University, which is the leading medical-oriented university in the South-East Asia. Mahidol Engineering is also covering on Logistics and Rail Engineering, Digital Engineering and Sustainable Engineering. Prof. Suthakorn holds a Master degree in Control Engineering from the Michigan Technological University, USA, and Ph.D. in Robotics from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. His academic works have been published over 70 publications in international journals, book chapters and peer reviewed conference proceedings. He has also established the Center for Biomedical and Robotics Technology (BART LAB) in 2004, which he has been the Executive Director of the Center since the starting time until now. In 2006, he and his colleague had established the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Mahidol University as the first and only Biomedical Engineering Department in Thailand. He has been the first Department Chair since then until 2015. The department is quickly become well known in Thailand, and the admission score for BME undergradu-ate program was ranked at the top of all Engineering discipline in Thailand from the year of 2008. He has been the leader in several research clusters and projects, which the total amount of research funding is more than 75 Million USD. He made a partnership agreement with Ministry of Science and Technology of Thailand through the Thailand Center of Excellence on Live Science (TCELS) to create “National Advanced Medical Robotics Project” with a budget over 70 Millions USD. He has been awarded as the Mahidol University's Outstanding Award for Academic Person in 2011. Moreover, he has been invited to be in several important administration boards in several State Enterprise Companies, such as, Telecom of Thailand and Provincial Electric Authority. His current research interests include Medical Robotics, Robot-Assisted Surgery, Surgical Navigations, Rescue Robot and Medical Surgical and Therapeutic System and Technology.

Jackrit SuthakornMahidol University Dean of EngineeringThailand

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Sirin Tekinay is the rector and professor of electrical and electronics engineering of Işık University. After a twenty-year career the United States, she returned to her home country to serve as the first vice-rector for research and technology. She has also served as the dean of engineering and natural sciences. Previously, she was tenured faculty of electrical and computer engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She joined the US National Science Foundation as program director of communications area and served as the founding chair of the $750 million program called “Cyber Enabled Discovery and Innovation,” in addition to other multidiscipli-nary and interagency programs. She holds a PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from George Mason University the United States and MS and BS degrees in electrical-electronics engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul.

Professor Tekinay holds nine patents and has authored numerous publications in her field. She has graduated six doctoral students. Her areas of interest include network science, mobile networks, sensor networks, and applications. She founded the first digital local fabrication laboratory in Turkey; “FabLab Istanbul.” She also started the first comprehensive program in urban engineering research and education.

Sirin TekinayIşik University RectorTurkey

I. Cem GöknarIşik University Director of Science and Technology InstituteTurkey

I. Cem Göknar (Life-Fellow IEEE) was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He received BS and MS degrees from Istanbul Technical University and a PhD from Michigan State University in 1969. He received NATO’s Senior Scientist Grant and the Minna-James-Heineman-Stiftung Award and was a visiting professor at the UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Waterloo University at Ontario, Canada and Technical University of Denmark at Lyngby. He gave lectures at the universities of Sannio, Pavia in Italy and the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was on the European Circuit Society Council during 1995-1997 and from 2005 on, serving as chair during 2009-2011.

Currently, he is a professor and director of Science and Technology Institute at Işık University, Istanbul, Turkey, and IEEE-CAS chapter chair in Turkey.

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Brian CantorUniversity of Bradford Vice-Chancellor UK

Brian Cantor is the vice-chancellor of the University of Bradford. Before that he was the vice-chancellor of the University of York and professor of materials and head of mathematical and physical sciences at the University of Oxford. He also worked as a research scientist and engineer at GE Corporate Research Labs the United States. He is acknowledged as a world authority on materials manufacturing. He was awarded a CBE for services to higher education in the 2013 New Year’s Honors.

He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Christ’s College, Cambridge University. He has worked at universities, including Sussex, Northeastern, Banaras, Oxford, Washington State, York, and Bradford. He also worked at Alcan, Elsevier, General Electric, NASA, and Rolls-Royce. He has published over 300 books and papers, given over 100 invited talks worldwide, and is on the ISI List of Most Cited Researchers. He founded the Begbroke Science Park at Oxford, and led the Heslington East Campus development at York. He has chaired and been on the board of many organizations, including the National Science Learning Centre, the National Media Museum, the UK Universities Pensions Forum, and the Worldwide Universities Network.

Umran S. Inan is the president of Koç University in Turkey. He served for more than 30 years as professor of electrical engineering and the director of the Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory at Stan-ford University. Since 1990, he has also been the principal PhD dissertation advisor to 60 students. Dr. Inan is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and the Electromagnetics Academy.

He has served as the chair of the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science and the International Chair of Commission H of URSI. He was the recipient of the 2007 Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research; the 1998 Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; several group achievement awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Space Agency; the Antarctic Service Medal of the U.S., with an Antarctic Mountain named “Inan Peak” in his honor; and the 2008 Appleton Prize from URSI and the Royal Society.

He received the TÜBİTAK Special Award in 2010 and was named a member of Turkey’s Sciences Academy. He received BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University in 1972 and 1973, respectively, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1977.

Umran InanKoç UniversityPresidentTurkey

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Vivien Jones is the pro vice-chancellor for student education and professor of the 18th century gender and culture in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK.

As the pro vice-chancellor, a role she has held since 2006, she has responsibility for the academic and co-curricular experience of all taught undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has led a number of initia-tives, including the Leeds Curriculum and LeedsforLife, which have established the University of Leeds as a center of excellence for curriculum design, research-based learning, and co-curricular opportunities for students. Committed to inclusivity in education and to student engagement, she seeks to ensure that Leeds attracts and retains the brightest and best students, whatever their personal circumstances, and she works closely in partner-ship with the Leeds University Students’ Union. She recently established the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excel-lence and Innovation, a center for research in the theory and practice of pedagogy in higher education.

She was a member of the English language and literature subject panel in the UK’s Research Assessment Exer-cise 2008 and again for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, and is a former executive committee member of the British Association for Romantic Studies and University English. She was appointed fellow of the English Association in 2006.

Born in north Manchester, she did her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Oxford, where she held a postdoctoral research fellowship at St. Edmund Hall and a lectureship at Balliol College before moving to her first post at the University of Leeds in 1983.

Vivien JonesUniversity of LeedsPro Vice-ChancellorUK

Tayyeb Shah is Director of International at King’s College London and works closely with the Vice Principal International on the College's international strategy and overseas partnerships. He leads King’s Worldwide, the department responsible for the College's Global Engagement activities, Summer Programmes plus bespoke Executive Education and Study Abroad offerings. He was previously Director of Executive Education at King's.

Tayyeb ShahKing's College London Director of InternationalUK

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James Kennedy has been at the University of Warwick since September 2008 and is currently director of global engagement. Before that he spent over thirty years working in various aspects of international education.

He manages all aspects of international activity for the University of Warwick, including international student admission and exchange programs, international student support services, and the development of international research and teaching links.

Prior to this, he spent over twenty-five years working for the British Council, the UK’s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities. His postings took him to Kuwait, Malaysia, Swaziland, Malawi, Germany, Kazakhstan and Russia. He was instrumental in the mid-1980s in establishing what has now become the Education UK Partnership, a collaborative program between the British Council and UK education institutions to promote British education around the world. He was also responsible in Africa in the 1990s for managing several major donor-funded programs to support the development of basic education in least-developed countries.

James KennedyUniversity of Warwick Director, Global EngagementUK

Stephen FlintUniversity of ManchesterAssociate Vice-ChancellorUK

Stephen Flint graduated from Leeds University with a PhD in geology in 1982. He spent four years in the research laboratories of Royal Dutch-Shell in the Netherlands before returning to academia at the University of Liverpool. He gained a full professorship in 1998 and has published over 130 articles in the peer-reviewed scien-tific literature. His research has been global for the last 25 years, in collaboration with many universities in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Australia, along with national and international oil companies.

At Liverpool he served as dean of Graduate Studies between 2007 and 2010 and as director of International Research Partnerships from 2010 to 2012. This included membership of the annual visiting audit team for Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou in China. He moved to the University of Manchester in 2012 and as associate vice-president for internationalization. He now is responsible for building long-term collaborative links with partner institutions worldwide. He works closely across all faculties to grow overseas research income, overseas PhD student numbers and to ensure that Manchester students have opportunities for international experience. Over the last three years, he has led faculty teams of academics on relationship-building visits to Brazil, Libya, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Chile and India.

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M. Brian BlakeDrexel University Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs and ProvostUSA

M. Brian Blake was named provost and executive vice-president for academic affairs in 2015. Prior to joining Drexel, Dr. Blake served as vice-provost for academic affairs and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Miami (UM). As vice-provost, he was the primary advocate for research on the Coral Gables campus, including research administration, infrastructure, policies, training, and regulatory needs. As dean of the Graduate School, Dr. Blake was the primary advocate for graduate education at UM, overseeing degree programs across 11 schools and colleges that enroll more than 5,200 graduate students each year. Before joining UM, Dr. Blake was professor of computer science and engineering and associate dean of engineering, research and graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining Notre Dame, he was department chair and director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science at Georgetown University. In industry, Dr. Blake spent six years working as a software architect, technical lead and expert developer with General Electric, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and The MITRE Corporation. Dr. Blake's research interests include investigating software engineering approaches for the integration of Web-based systems. His scholarly activities have been funded by more than $10 million in sponsored research awards from various government and commercial organizations, including AFRL, AFOSR, DARPA, Department of Education, FAA, NIH, NSF, IBM, MITRE, and SAIC. He has authored or co-authored more than 160 journal articles, books/book chapters and refereed conference/workshop papers. Dr. Blake earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994, his master's degree in Electrical Engineer-ing from Mercer University in 1997 and his PhD in Information and Software Engineering from George Mason University in 2000.

Youngsuk Chi is an international businessman and a leader in the media and technology industry. He is the chair-man of Elsevier, the world’s leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information and services, supporting over 30 million scientists, students and health information professionals around the world. As Elsevier’s chairman, he works directly with governments, Elsevier customers and in industry associations world-wide. He also recently completed four years of service as the president of the International Publishers Associa-tion, a global organization that represents the interests of more than 50 publishing industry association members around the world, and will serve as past president for the next two years.

Mr. Chi joined Elsevier in June 2005 as vice-chairman and head of global academic and customer relations at Elsevier, and became a member of the management committee of Reed Elsevier in May 2009. In 2009, he accepted additional responsibility as CEO of Elsevier Science and Technology.

He graduated cum laude from Princeton University with an AB in economics and earned his MBA in finance at Columbia University. Upon completing an eight-year stint with American Express International Bank in the United States, Mexico, England, France, and Singapore, he joined Ingram Micro, the world’s largest distributor of computer products, in 1992. In 1996, Mr. Chi joined Ingram Book Group as chief operating officer, and subsequently held several president and CEO positions at Ingram. He also co-founded Lightning Source Inc., the industry’s first print-on-demand distributor and e-book delivery services provider, which won numerous book and technology industry awards for its historic innovations.

Youngsuk ChiElsevierChairmanUSA

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Spiros Dimolitsas is the senior vice-president for research and chief technology officer at Georgetown University. In this role he leads Georgetown’s development of innovation alliances and partnerships with the industry, universities, and national laboratories. He works collaboratively with leaders across the university to promote research, secure investments in university-based programs, oversee multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research programs, and drive technology commercialization. Prior to joining Georgetown University in 2001, he served as senior executive for engineering and associate direc-tor of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL), a $1.5 billion applied-science research organization. In this capacity his 2,500-person division led the engineering design of the world’s largest laser fusion facility. Prior to LLNL, Dr. Dimolitsas held a variety of management positions with the Communications Satellite Corpora-tion (Comsat), where he pioneered technology related to voice and data communications over fixed and mobile networks. He also represented Comsat to the International Telecommunications Union, and chaired several United Nations inter-governmental committees on behalf of the US. He represents Georgetown University in a variety of fora, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Univer-sity Leadership Forum on Sustainability, the US Council on Competitiveness, and serves on the boards of the Stevens Systems Engineering Research Center and CMX Technologies, Inc. He holds a BS in theoretical phys-ics with honors from Sussex University in England; an MS in nuclear engineering from Imperial College and Queen Mary College–London; and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Sussex University.

Spiros DimolitsasGeorgetown University Senior Vice-PresidentUSA

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