Dr. Ling Xue is an associate Professor at Peking University School of Government. He also acts as the Peking University Office of Planning and Policy Research executive director and Peking University Centre for China Regional Economics Studies Associate Director. He received his master’s degree in Systems Engineering and Management Engineering in 1998, PHD in Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Regional Economics in 2002. Dr. Xue is a famous expert of urban and regional economics, and specializes in regional industrial development planning and spatial layout, regional policy and project evaluation, etc. Since 2010, he has assisted university leaders in charge of strategic planning, academic planning, campus planning, preservation of cultural relics, the pilot program of modern university system, the pilot program of discipline management framework, etc. He also involved in the making of "The ‘twelfth five-year’ Planning Outline of Peking University Reform and Development", "The Peking University’s Action Plan (2013-2018)" and other important planning activities.

Dr. Wei Qi obtained his doctoral degrees in management science and engineering from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China.
Dr. QI is now the Director of the Office of Development and Planning, USTC. His current research interests include strategic planning of universities, world-class universities and research universities, and educational policy Research. He has published extensively in both Chinese and English journals.
Dr. QI has been enthusiastic in performing professional services. In 2006 as one of the team leaders, the project of “Strategy Management System Based on Operation and Capabilities” won the second prize of “The 13th Innovation of Enterprise Management of China” held by State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.

Jeffrey Lehman is the Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, where he oversees all academic and administrative operations. Lehman is an internationally acclaimed leader in higher education, having served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School, the eleventh president of Cornell University, and the founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law.

Prior to joining the University of Michigan Law School, Lehman served as law clerk to Frank M. Coffin, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court. He then spent four years at Caplin & Drysdale, a Washington, D.C. law firm. Throughout his professional and academic career, Lehman has volunteered his time and energy to nonprofit organizations that share his commitments in the fields of higher education, law, and technology.

Vice Chancellor Lehman received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. He is a multi-award winner for his work both in the US and abroad, including the Friendship Award, which is China’s highest honor for “foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country’s economic and social progress.” Lehman is also a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Peking University.

Zhenyuan Qu became a researcher after graduating from Tsinghua University with a degree Master of Science. He has been a visiting scholar at New York State University, the University of Chicago, former State Education Secretary in ideological and political work, Director of Department of the Ministry of Education of College Students, Chinese Communist Party secretary of China Agricultural University. Tenth, Eleventh CPPCC National Committee. Currently he is the sixth president of the Council of Chinese Higher Education.

Dr. Sergey Ivanets has served as the President of Far Eastern Federal University since 2012.

He was born on September 15, 1965 in Moscow. In 1988 he graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPHI) majoring in in Applied Mathematics. From 1989 to 1995 he worked as an intern researcher and pursued postgraduate studies at MEPHI (PhD in Technical Science) and worked in the Russian Aviation and Space Agency.

From 1996 to 1999 Sergey Ivanets worked as a Second Secretary at the Russian Federation Embassy in the USA, where he was in charge of international space cooperation.

From 1999 to 2001 he was the Chief Specialist of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency and from 2007 to 2008 held the position of the First Secretary at the Russian Federation Embassy in Argentina.

Dr. Sergey Ivanets began working at the Ministry of Education and Science in 2007. In 2007-2008 he served as an Assistant to the Minister. In September 2008, he was assigned to be a Director of the Strategy and Prospective Projects in Education and Science Department. In June 2010 he was appointed as a Head of the International Integration Department in the Ministry of Education and Science. In December of the same year, he was assigned to be the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. In this position, he supervised the Russian Far East.

Dr. Sergey Ivanets holds a Ph.D. in Technical Science.
He speaks English and Spanish.

Prof. Nam is a theoretical physicist who specializes in and wrote many papers on string theory, black holes, and cosmology. He received his BS (Physics) in 1982 from Seoul National University and PhD (Physics) in 1987 from Yale University. Before becoming a faculty member at Kyung Hee University in 1992, he did research at Virginia Tech, MIT, and Seoul National University.
He is best known for his work on two-dimensional conformal field theory, which is related to the shape of the extra dimensions of hypothetical ten dimensional space time of string theory. Recently he has been working on the quantum nature of black holes. He is interested in the Nuclear Energy Policy and has contributed an article on the subject on a national newspaper (Joong Ang Ilbo).
He wrote an award winning book “String Cosmos” and appeared on a national TV (KBS) for a special program on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. He served on the board of trustees of the Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies, and is a Senior Associate of International Center for Theoretical Physics (associated with UNESCO & IAEA) at Trieste, Italy. He is currently the Chairman of the Division of Particle Physics of the Korean Physical Society. Between August 2012-Jan. 2014, he was the Dean of the Graduate School of Kyung Hee University and oversaw over 80 departments in both campuses of Kyung Hee University (KHU). Since Jan. 2014 he is the Director of Center for Strategic Planning. He directs strategic planning, preparation for external evaluations, and will oversee budget planning.

Professor Jingshen WU is the Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and has been the Chairman of the Task Force for XJTU-HKUST Joint School of Sustainable Development (JSSD) since June 2012. He is also the Founding Director of the Center for Engineering Materials and Reliability and Director of the Advanced Engineering Materials Facility. Professor Wu earned the B.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry from The University of Science and Technology of China in 1983 and the Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The University of Sydney, Australia in 1994. Prior to joining HKUST in 1996, Professor Wu was Postdoctoral Research Associate and Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering of The University of Sydney, Australia. Professor Wu has also held adjunct/guest professorships in China, including being Adjunct Professor of The University of Science and Technology of China, Adjunct Professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Guest Professor of Sichuan University, and Guest Professor of Harbin Engineering University.

Dr Hill received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Nottingham UK and has worked at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus since 2008. Dr Hill is a convenor for the Knowledge Without Borders Network, based at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, and has international experience working in Higher Education in Australia, China, Germany, Ghana, Iraq, Malaysia, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, UK, USA and Vietnam.
Dr Hill’s research interests include transnational education and its impact in SE Asia, the development of international education and the student experience in the global arena. Dr Hill is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, has published and presented in the field of international education; organised and delivered conferences, workshops, training and lectures around the world and has led on funded projects to develop research capacity and internationlise HE systems in Iraq and Thailand. In 2012, Dr Hill was awarded a U21 Teaching and Learning Network Fellowship to research internationalisation and global citizenry.

Tessa Payne has worked in research and postgraduate administration in UK Higher Education for the past 15 years. She worked at Cambridge University for seven years; three were spent managing postgraduate programmes delivered at the Judge Business School, and four were spent as Company Secretary for the Cambridge-MIT Institute, a GBP 60 million strategic alliance between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which focussed on the development and delivery of collaborative research and education, including six joint Masters programmes. In 2005 she moved to the University of Nottingham as Head of the Graduate School where she led a team of 26 with responsibility for the development and implementation of institutional strategy for postgraduate research students, the training and development of 3,500 PhD students, plus supervisors and early career researchers, and the management of a studentship grant portfolio worth in excess of 20million GBP.

She is currently on a two year secondment to the University of Nottingham’s campus in Ningbo, China, where she is Head of Research and Graduate Services. Her role includes working with the Vice-Provost for Research and Knowledge Exchange on the strategic development of research activities and the Graduate School at the campus.

Kevin McConkey is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Queensland, Australia. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School, USA.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Professor McConkey has extensive experience in higher education through senior roles across diverse and complex organizations, such as the Australian Psychological Society Ltd, the University of New South Wales, the University of Newcastle, GraduateSchool.com Pty Ltd, and Raffles College of Design and Commerce.
He has expertise in the quality assurance, regulation and accreditation of higher education institutions, and is an Expert of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency of the Australian Government.
Professor MConkey has expertise in international education, and extensive experience working with institutions and governments across Australia, Asia, and North America to create educational and esearch alliances and partnerships.

Danny Wong Tze Ken is currently Director, Global Planning & Strategy Centre, University of Malaya. He is also Professor of History at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya where he teaches history of Indochina and Southeast Asia. His research interests include history of Champa, Sabah and the Chinese in Malaysia. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University (2010), Visiting Scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge University (2008), Visiting Lecturer at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1998) and Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute (2008-2011). Among his publications are: The Nguyen and Champa during 17th and 18th Century (2007), Historical Sabah: Community and Society (2004), The Transformation of an Immigrant Society: a Study of the Chinese of Sabah (1998) and Vietnam-Malaysia Relations during the Cold War (1995). He is also Director of the Institute of China Studies and Head of the Malaysian Chinese Research Centre, University of Malaya.

As a Deputy Director of the Global Planning & Strategy Centre (GPSC) for the University of Malaya (UM), Professor Nor Aishah Hamzah is responsible for coordinating the National Higher Education Strategic Planning for UM, Leadership Training and Succession Planning as well as promoting staff excellence through awards nomination.

Aishah is also attached to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science. She received her B.Sc. from Southampton University, M.Sc. from Leeds University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Her current research interests are in risk measures and statistical modeling in finance. Prior to her present role at GPSC, she has also served the Faculty of Science as Deputy Dean of Academic in 2006–2009.

Yimin Wang is currently a consultant of Elsevier APAC, has experience of working with many research administrators in higher education institutions in Greater China, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Thailand. Before he joined Elsevier in early 2011, he had been doing research in the field of life science data integration for 6 years in Eli Lilly and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, respectively. He graduated as Master of Science from University of Manchester in the field of Computer Science in 2005.

Graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Accountancy from the former University of Singapore and worked for 3 years as an auditor with the Ernst & Young public accounting firm. Embarked on a banking career by joining the Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase), Singapore. Worked with the Bank for 18 years, fulfilling different roles from regional auditor, to Head of Internal Audit and ultimately as the Chief Financial Officer of the Singapore Branch. I was later placed as the Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of a family-owned real estate developer, which owns hotels, office buildings, residential developments and a retail mall. After 3 years, the opportunity to be involved in the start-up of a new university, the Singapore Management University, came in 1999. I joined the university as the Chief Financial Officer looking after the funding and financial aspects of the university. Over the years, additional functions were added to my responsibility, which included the Investment Office, Strategic Planning, Facilities Management, Campus Development, Facilities Leasing and Business Productivity Improvement. I am still serving as the Senior Vice President of Finance & Administration at the Singapore Management University.

Graduated with an LL.B from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1998, and also holds an LL.M (Queen Mary College) and an MBA (Imperial College, University of London). Edmund is a Barrister-at-Law (Gray’s Inn, UK) and is also admitted to the Singapore Bar.

Edmund started his career in Singapore as a practicing lawyer in the corporate and banking areas, and then worked as an in-house counsel with a petrochemical MNC before joining the non-profit sector as Singapore Management University’s counsel. Edmund is currently serving as SMU’s Vice President (Legal & General Affairs) and also serves as Secretary to the University.

Bruce is a Chartered Accountant and has held senior finance roles in the aviation and fast moving consumer goods industries. In the public sector he has held senior management and planning roles in the New Zealand health sector and now in tertiary education. Since the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 he has been involved in business continuity planning and recovery initiatives across the institution.  

Gethin Roberts is Professor of Geospatial Engineering at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC).

During the 20 years as an academic at the University of Nottingham in the UK, Prof. Roberts carried out research in various aspects of Engineering Surveying, Deformation monitoring, research into GPS and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems), Detection and positioning of buried pipes and cables, and using GNSS integrated with other sensors and systems to position such utilities in built up areas etc. He has supervised 12 PhD students to completion, and is currently supervising 8 PhD students at UNNC. He has written and co-written over 200 papers. He has been external examiner for various undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses both in the UK and overseas.

Prof Roberts came to UNNC in 2010 on a 3 year secondment post as Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. During this time, he led the growth of the newest faculty, increasing staffing by 500%, as well as developing the faculty. He is now leading the development of the surveying activities at UNNC, as well as contributing to the teaching and research in this field. He also developed the first taught MSc course within the faculty in Engineering Surveying and Geodesy.

Yoon-il Auh is currently a visiting professor at KyungHee Cyber University. Prior to this position, he served as the Vice President of the National Labor College of AFL-CIO for seven years. He has taught computer programming at Columbia University for eight years and served as an associate Director of online education at New York University in the late 90s; then served as a Director of Distributed Education at Central Michigan University where he managed sixty satellite campuses in twenty-one states, Mexico and Canada where 20% of campuses resided in the US Army military base. In addition to his administrative and teaching load, he is actively involved in international community development project through arts, culture and technology education. His involvement includes, South Korea, Cambodia, Myanmar, Costa Rica, Panama and Tanzania. He also serves as a faculty member in Global Leadership Program that oversees twenty-two nations in North, Central, and South America sponsored by Youth Orchestra of Americas Foundation in Washington D.C (yoa.org). He received Bachelor and Master Degrees from the Juilliard School; Master in Arts in Communications and Computing in Education, and Master of Education and Doctor of Education in Instructional Technology from Columbia University.

1994/ Graphic Design(BFA), School of Visual Arts
2000/ Multimedia in Communications Design(MS), Pratt Institute
2011/ Solo Exhibition, Korean Spirit 2, Gallery Kyo(Japan)
2008/ Solo Exhibition, Korean Spirit, Art & Dream Gallery
2007/ Solo Exhibition, Visual Communication - Life, Art & Dream
Several Group and Invitation Exhibitions
Currently, he is the Dean for the Dept. of Online Education Support and he is an associate professor for the Dept. of Media Content Design at Kyung Hee Cyber University

Susan Lowance has over 18 years of experience as an architect with specialized expertise in the programming, planning and design of educational, institutional and research buildings. Since joining KPF in 2000, she has worked for a range of academic institutions, including New York University, New York University Shanghai, the University of Michigan and the University of Miami. Working closely with each client, she helps generate organizational principles for buildings that both reflect the specific character of the institution they serve and transform the culture with new state of the art facilities. She also works to craft learning environments which reflect new pedagogical directions and accommodate change over time. Her current projects include the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California-Los Angeles.

Ms. Lowance received her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, her Master of Architecture from Harvard University and is a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Martin Hanlon is Director of the Planning and Quality Unit at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. In this role, Martin leads a unit responsible for coordinating the university’s strategic planning, performance reporting, process-focused improvement projects, information analysis, student and stakeholder surveys, compliance reporting, data governance and university rankings.   
During his time at UTS, Martin has contributed to the broader higher education sector by co-authoring various international publications and presenting at conferences in the field of institutional research. He has also chaired a recent annual conference of the Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR).   
Martin has fifteen years of combined experience heading corporate planning and reporting teams, including his prior role as Director of Corporate Planning and Performance at the NSW Environment Protection Authority, Australia.   
Martin has an interest in not-for-profit organisations and is currently a non-Executive Director on two Boards.

Sriven Naidu has served as Director of Strategic Planning at SMU since 2010. His experience in higher education to-date has been distinctly wide-ranging.

As Deputy Director in the Higher Education Division of Singapore's Ministry of Education (MOE) from 2008-2010, he headed both the Policy and the Quality Assurance sections. Among his extensive responsibilities were:

(i) representing Singapore at ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) meetings, and
(ii) working closely with several expert panels (comprising former Ivy League Presidents and Rectors of European institutions) to conduct external validations of Singapore's Universities, Polytechnics and Arts Colleges under MOE’s Quality Assurance Framework.

Sriven also served as a director on the Board of the Lasalle College of the Arts from 2008-2009.
From 2000-2007, he served in various roles at Singapore Polytechnic (SP) - from course management and lecturing in its School of Business, to administering financial assistance & pastoral care, and as elected representative of academic staff on SP’s Senate. Sriven was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005.
Sriven holds an LLB(Hons) from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from INSEAD. He continues to enjoy teaching Corporate and Commercial Law as an adjunct professor at SMU’s Law School. He leverages his earlier career experiences (first as a corporate lawyer, and later as general manager of a start-up) to bridge academic theory with real-world insights for his students.

Prof. Suh is a professor in Information and Technology Strategy at the Department of Industrial & Ma! nagement Engineering, POSTECH since 1989. Before joining POSTECH, he was on the faculty of Oklahoma State University. He received his B.S. from Seoul National University, M.S. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Stanford University, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Prof. Suh has led the POSTECH's globalization in different capacities: Special Advisor to President in International Relations and Chair of Globalization Committee. Currently, he is the Chair of University Evaluation & Management Committee assessing POSTECH’s outside evaluations to coordinate the management strategies of POSTECH. He also leads the GREATER POSTECH, a world-wide network for POSTECH's alumni, emeriti, faculty, and students.

Dr Bruce Carroll is the Executive Director of Planning and Policy for RMIT. Prior to taking on this role in 2012, he was Director of Governance for the ACT Department of Education and Training and he held a similar role for the Commonwealth department National Health and Medical Research Commission (NHMRC).

Bruce is a corporate counselor with extensive experience in governance, organisational development and corporate planning. He has held senior and executive management positions in the health, education and welfare sectors and worked in many contexts and with a broad constituency including bureaucrats, academics, and service providers.

Bruce has been a participant in peak state and national planning groups and used these opportunities to contribute to the development and re-orientation of policy and governance issues across all sectors.