Eunlim Chi is a professor in the Graduate School of Education and the dean of the office of Educational Planning and Development at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. She has also served as the Director of Center for Teaching and Learning and dean of the School of General Education. Chi is currently a commission member of Korean Council for University Education and participating in the National Program of University Accreditation. Chi is interested in the measurement of educational outcomes and promoting university educational excellence through educational evaluation systems. She has written many papers and books, including “Exploring the Construct and Developing the Scale for Creative Leader Competency” and “Theory and Application of Performance Assessment.” She received her M.A. and Ph. D. in Educational Measurement and Evaluation from the University of Chicago.

Paul Tonks is the Associate Dean for International Affairs at Yonsei University, the leading private comprehensive University in South Korea. Prior to taking up his current role at the Office of International Affairs last spring, Dr. Tonks served as Chair of the Common (Liberal Arts) Curriculum at Underwood International College at Yonsei University from 2009-2012. Originally from the UK, he took his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford and then did his MA and PhD (History) at The Johns Hopkins University in the US. Dr. Tonks joined the Underwood International College at Yonsei University in 2006, the first year of its operation.

As Director of Planning, Quality and Reporting at the University of Newcastle, Australia, Associate Professor Anne Young leads a team that is responsible for coordinating strategic planning, quality assurance, institutional surveys and research, student load planning, business intelligence and reporting. Anne has a PhD in statistics and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Prior to her current role, she worked in health planning in Australia and the UK and as a teaching and research academic in statistics and epidemiology. Anne has a strong interest in record linkage and longitudinal studies and in using both quantitative and qualitative data to support evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement. Anne and her peers recently established the Australian Network of University Planners to facilitate discussion of topical issues and to highlight the expertise within the group to contribute to national policy discussions.

Prior to joining HKUST, he was the Director of Strategic Planning and Quality Assurance at the Singapore Management University, and an Adjunct Faculty with the School of Information Systems. He served concurrently as a Director in the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

He holds a double-major degree in Computer Engineering and Psychology, and a Masters in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Dr Julie Wells was appointed University Secretary and Vice-President at RMIT University in April 2009. Prior to that, she was the Director of Policy and Planning, and before that, Principal Policy Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor.

Julie heads the Governance and Planning portfolio, which comprises the University Secretariat, the Policy and Planning Group and the Chancellery. Governance and Planning provides integrated support for governance and strategic and business planning across RMIT.

She has extensive experience in tertiary education administration and management and expertise in public policy. She has taught in schools, universities and vocational education and training colleges and worked at RMIT since April 2002. Between 1998 and 2002 she was the Policy and Research Coordinator in the National Office of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) which represents academic and professional staff in Australian universities. She has also worked as an adviser to Commonwealth and State parliamentarians and in the Australian Public Service. She is a former member of the Board of the Council of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

Prof. Liu Jinlan is the Director of Strategic Planning at Tianjin University, the first university in China. In this role, she leads a unit that is responsible for strategic planning and decision-making support research. Meanwhile, she is the professor in School of Management and Economics at Tianjin University, doctoral supervisor, an expert who enjoys the special allowance of the state council, executive director of China Marketing Association, the deputy director of Education System Engineering Committee of Systems Engineering Society of China, member of appraisal group of Tianjin Municipal People's Government Academic Degrees.
Prof. Liu was the Sino-US Fulbright Visiting Scholar, researched at the University of Michigan in 2003 and 2004. She took a temporary post at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2008. Her research direction focuses on service management and customer satisfaction. Prof. Liu has presided dozens of national, provincial and ministerial level research projects and published academic monograph, textbook and more than 80 academic articles in recent years. Her academic achievements were awarded the first prize of Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award and Tianjin Social Science Award. The curriculum Management Statistics she in charge of was awarded National Excellent Courses.

Prof. Suh is a professor in Information and Technology Strategy at the Department of Industrial & Management 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

Ms. Lerner has over 30 years of design and management experience, leading numerous award-winning academic and institutional research facilities projects for public and private clients, both domestically and abroad.
Her work includes a new Bio-Medical Research Institute for Methodist Hospital in Houston, the Semel Research Institute for Human Behavior at UCLA, Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, the Advanced Science Research Center for the City University of New York in Manhattan, Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen and NYU's New Shanghai Campus. She has been at KPF since 1994, and a Principal since 1999.
Ms. Lerner is presently the First Vice President/ President-Elect of the NYC American Institute of Architects (AIA NYC). She has served on the Board of the Asian University for Women and the President's Advisory Council for College of Creative Studies. Ms. Lerner has had significant leadership roles at Cornell University as a University Trustee, Chair of the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Architecture Art & Planning, President's Council of Cornell Women, and Master Plan Design Task Force.

Dr. Mingzheng Shi is currently Associate dean of Undergraduate Programs at Duke Kunshan University. Born and raised in China, he earned his undergraduate degree at Peking University, his Ph.D. in Chinese History at Columbia University and a master’s degree in American Studies from the University of Connecticut. He built a successful academic career at U.S. institutions including the University of Houston and University of Hawaii, Manoa, before returning to China in 2000. Shi has taught extensively in the areas of Chinese history and culture and urban studies at NYU’s campuses in Shanghai and Abu Dhabi and at the Council on International Educational Exchange Study Center in Shanghai. He has also held senior management and program administration roles with CIEE and NYU Shanghai. Shi has served as a research fellow with the National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Yan WANG is a Associate Professor at the Development and Planning Research Center, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, from 2006-present. She completed her Master and doctor Courses and got PhD. in Management Science and Engineering, in Zhejiang University, China from 2000-2006.

Dr. WANG’s Key research interests mainly lie in the higher education policy, the role of Research Universities in regional economy growth. She has won several research grants in the last six years, and published books and articles concerning policy and planning on higher education of China.