SPECIAL GUESTS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EXCELLENCE INITIATIVES
ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA 30 JUNE - 1 JULY 2016
ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA 30 JUNE - 1 JULY 2016
in alphabetical order
Chief of the Strategic Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Since 2004 Sabine Behrenbeck has been the Head of the Higher Education Department and since 2005 is also responsible for the Excellence Initiative.
Managing Director, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence
Since 2012, Isak Froumin has been the Academic Advisor of the HSE Institute of Education. Since 2004, he has been Deputy Chief Editor of the quarterly scientific-educational Education Affairs magazine.
Ellen Hazelkorn is President of EAIR (European Higher Education Society) and Chairperson of the EU Expert Group on Science Education (2014), and on the Management Board of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), at the Institute of Education, UCL.
Dr. Daria Kozlova is Vice Rector for International Relations of ITMO University and Director of ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership. She completed her PhD in Economics at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPbPU) where she focused her research on international education.
WPI Program Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan
Former Vice Rector of University of Luxembourg, Professor at the University of Luxembourg
Leading Expert, Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation
Dr. António Rendas has been the Research Associate in Pathology at the Harvard Medical School and at the Children's Hospital Medical Center, in Boston, USA, in 1978. He did his public exam for Extraordinary Professor of Pathophysiology, in 1979 at the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) and is Full Professor of Pathophysiology, since 1982.
Jamil Salmi is a Global Tertiary Education Expert providing policy advice and consulting services to governments, universities, professional associations, multilateral banks and bilateral cooperation agencies. Until January 2012, he was the World Bank’s tertiary education coordinator.
Executive Director and Head of Research, Perspektywy Education Foundation, Poland
Waldemar Siwinski, founder and president of the "Perspektywy" Education Foundation, Vice President of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence.
Dr. Spang-Grau has several years of experience in matters of organisation of the higher education and research system in Germany and abroad.
Rector National Research Nuclear University MEPhl, Russian Federation
Vice Director MERGE Cluster of Excellence Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany
Dr. Vladimir Vasilyev has been the rector of ITMO University since 1996. ITMO, one of Russia’s leading higher education and research institutions specializes in Information Technology, Optics and Photonics. He is an active corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education.
Professor of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. Advisor to the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Doctor of Science. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics (now National Research Nuclear University MEPhI).
