Michael Crow, University Leadership and Public Engagement
Michael Crow is President of Arizona State University. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the USA’s leading public metropolitan research universities, one that is directly engaged in the economic, social, and cultural vitality of its region. Under his direction the university pursues teaching, research, and creative excellence focused on the major challenges and questions of our time, such as building a sustainable environment and economy. He has committed the university to global engagement, and to setting a new standard for public service. |
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Sir Peter Scott
Professor Sir Peter Scott has been Vice Chancellor of Kingston University since January 1998. Previously he was Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education at the University of Leeds. He was also the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Education. From 1976 to 1992 he was Editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, and before that a reporter and then leader writer on The Times. |
Madeleine Atkins, Leadership and Innovation in Higher Education
Madeleine Atkins studied law and history as an undergraduate at Cambridge University before qualifying as a Secondary teacher. She taught for four years in a large comprehensive school in Huntingdon before returning to higher education to complete her PhD at Nottingham University. Following various post-doctoral research positions, she became a lecturer in education management at Newcastle University, developing a keen interest in the use of new technologies to support effective learning. Having held the positions of Head of Department, Dean and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Newcastle University, Professor Atkins became Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University in September 2004.
Professor Atkins is currently a member of HEFCE’s new Research and Innovation Committee, having previously served on its Quality Assurance, Learning and Teaching Committee and also on its Strategic Advisory Committee for Business & Community. Nationally, Madeleine is a Board member of the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship and a member of the UUK Employability, Business and Industry Policy Committee (EBIPC). She is also a member of the CBI’s Higher Education Task Force set up in September 2008. Regionally, she is Deputy Chair of Advantage West Midlands’ Council for Innovation and Technology and Deputy Chair of the West Midlands Higher Education Association (WMHEA). |
David Greenaway, University Leadership and Economics
David Greenaway is Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Economics at The University of Nottingham. Previously, he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. He has served on the Council for the ESRC, and as founding Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy. Since 2004, he has Chaired the Armed Forces Pay Review Body. In addition to publishing extensively on economics, he has written on the challenges of university leadership and funding.
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Thomas Darwin, Intellectual Entrepreneurship
Tommy Darwin is the Director of the Professional Development and Community Engagement Program at the University of Texas at Austin, and leader of the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium, cross-disciplinary initiative for “citizen-scholars.” He has worked as a programme director, professor, and consultant finding ways to bring diverse groups together to creatively engage complex problems, with a focus on community problems. Working across the boundaries within a major research university and in its surrounding community, he has extensive experience bringing expertise of all varieties to bear on complex challenges, using entrepreneurship and design both as tools and a framework for change. |
Michael Shattock, Governance in Higher Education
Michael Shattock is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London and Joint Director of the MBA in Higher Education Management. He was previously Registrar of the University of Warwick. He has published widely in higher education and is well known both as a successful manager in higher education and for his high profile inquiries into institutional governance and management issues.
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Robin Middlehurst, Leadership in Higher Education
Robin Middlehurst is Director (Strategy, Research and International) at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and Professor of Higher Education at Kingston University. Her personal areas of research, teaching and consultancy include the nature and impact of change in higher education policy and practice with a particular focus on leadership and leadership development; governance and management; quality assurance and enhancement at national and international levels; ‘borderless higher education' and international higher education strategy.
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Antti Paasio, Regional Business Engagement
Antti Paasio is Professor and Director of BID (Business and Innovation Development) at the Turku School of Economics, an provider of international top-level expertise in business know-how. Under his direction, BID strives to combine the newest expertise and innovations into successful business development, working with clients and partners in business and academe, in Finland and internationally. BID follows and prognosticates the changes and challenges within knowledge intensive businesses, by carrying out research in innovations, entrepreneurship and new business models. |
John Goddard, Regional Development and the Civic University
John Goddard is Emeritus Professor of Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University and Director of the Centre for Urban & Regional Development Studies (CURDS). He has recently served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor responsible for relations with the city and region, and has advised the UK universities association (UUK), and the Higher Education Funding Council on the regional role of universities. He directs over 20 research staff in basic and policy research funded by the UK research councils, government departments, the European Commission and private industry.
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Magnus Klofsten, University-based Technology Entrepreneurship
Magnus Klofsten is the founding Director of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at Linkoping University, Sweden. He is also Professor at Division Project, Innovations and Entrepreneurship (PIE). His research is oriented towards the early growth and development of technology-based firms, financing young ventures and university-industry relations. Magnus is research leader at the Helix Centre of Excellence and member of Agora Link Centre for researcher mobility and commercialisation of life science technologies. As a Director of CIE and member of the board of SMIL (a foundation of small technology-based firms), which provides support in business development for the member firms, this has given him extensive experience of planning and implementation of different growth and development programmess for technology-based firms.
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Henry Etzkowitz, Triple Helix
Henry Etzkowitz is Professor at the University of Edinburgh Business School and General Adviser to the International Institute of Triple Helix (IITH) of LaSalle University Madrid. For the academic year 2009-2010 he will be a Research Fellow at Stanford University, Clayman Institute for Gender Research. A former Chair in the Management of Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise at the Business School of the University of Newcastle, he has written extensively on University-Industry-Government relations, on innovation policy, and on the entrepreneurial university, as well as on science-base regional development. |
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Brent Smith, Leadership
Brent Smith is currently Associate Dean of Executive Education and Associate Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice University and Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School (on leave). Prior to his current academic appointments, Dr Smith was a member of the faculty at Cornell University where he taught in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has also taught for shorter periods at the University of California at Berkeley and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and has conducted executive programmes around the world including Europe, Asia, and South America for companies such as Shell, IBM, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Microsoft, Ericsson, KPMG, Veritas, Dynegy, ONGC, CGG Inc., Marathon Oil, Citibank, and Total. His teaching interests focus primarily on leadership and management development. Dr Smith’s executive programmes include Leading and Managing Change, Talent Development and Coaching, and Leading and Managing High Performance Teams. |