Participants

We were fortunate to have an exciting group of participants who made this conference truly productive and engaging. We hope the conference has furthered an ongoing network of professionals that will engage in international collaboration and cooperation. Our invited participants represented educators, researchers, policy makers and foundation members from Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Iceland, the Netherlands, South Africa and the United Kingdom as well as our neighbors to the north and south of us, Canada and Mexico. We also invited US participants from the National Science Foundation, the Council of Graduate Schools, the National Research Councils of the National Academies and the Ford Foundation.

Australia & New Zealand | Brazil | Canada | China | Europe (Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom) | Japan | Mexico | South Africa | United States

(** Lead Author on Commissioned Paper for each country)

Australia & New Zealand

Barbara Evans **

Dean, Graduate Studies

University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Terry Evans **

Associate Dean of Education (Research)

Faculty of Education

Deakin University, Geelong Victoria, Australia

Helene Marsh

Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Professor of Environmental Science

James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Graham Smith (New Zealand/Canada)

Professor

Aboriginal Studies

Visiting Scholar to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Brazil

Renato Ribeiro **

Evaluation Director

CAPES-Brazilian Ministry of Education

Professor, Ethics and Political Philosophy

University of San Paulo, San Paulo

Simon Schwartzman

Director and President

Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade – IETS, Rio de Janeiro

Russolina B. Zingali

Associate Professor

Instituto de Bioquímica Médica

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Canada

Jonathan Driver

Dean of Graduate Studies, Professor of Archaeology

Simon Fraser University

Louis Maheu **

Dean of Higher Education

University of Montreal, Montreal

Marc Renaud

President

Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Ottawa

People’s Republic of China

Yingqiu Liu (unable to attend)

Senior Research Fellow & Professor of Economics

Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences

Beijing, Chaoyang District

Europe

Hans Siggaard Jensen (Denmark) **

Chairman of the European Doctoral School on Knowledge and Management

Executive Research Director, Professor

Learning Lab Denmark/The Danish University of Education, Copenhagen

Bernard Hugonnier (France) (unable to attend)

Deputy Director for Education

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Barbara Kehm (Germany) **

Professor for Higher Education Research

Center for Research on Higher Education and Work, Kassell University, Kassell

Hans Jürgen Prömel (Germany)

Professor and Vice President for Research

Humboldt University, Berlin

Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson (Iceland) **

Technical Director/Director, RANNIS – The Icelandic Center for Research, Reykjavik
Former Rector and chairman of the NorFA board

Andreas Frijdal (Italy) **

Head of Academic Service

European University Institute, Florence

J. A. Bartelse (The Netherlands)

Vice Director, The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU)

Morten Levin (Norway)

Professor, Organization and Work Science

Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management,

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Howard Green (UK) **

Chair, UKCGE

UK Council for Graduate Education

Senior Advisor to the Vice Chancellor

Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

Japan

Shinichi Yamamoto **

Professor and Director

Research Center for University Studies,

University of Tsukuba, Tokyo

Kumiko Hirabayashi-Tansho

Head, Research Cooperation Division II, International Programs

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo

Tetsuo Shoji

Vice President for Research

Director of Center for Mechanical Science Based on NanoTechnology

Tohoku University, Sendai

Mexico

Armando Alcantara

Centro de Estudios sobre la Universidad (Center for University Studies)

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico – UNAM)

Mauricio Fortes

Director General Adjunto de Investigación y Normas

Centro Nacional de Evaluación para la Educación Superior (CENEVAL)

Salvador Malo

Director General

CENEVAL-Centre for the Assessment of Higher Education, Col. San Ángel

South Africa

Ahmed Bawa **

Professor of Physics & Education

Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research

University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Previously: Program Officer (Higher Education and Scholarship), The Ford Foundation

Southern Africa Office, Johannesburg

Toko Mayekiso

Head, School of Human & Community Development

Wits University, Johannesburg

United States

Bianca Bernstein

National Science Foundation

Division Director, Graduate Education, Arlington, Virginia

Maresi Nerad

Associate Graduate Dean

Associate Professor and Director, CIRGE

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Suzanne Ortega

Dean and Vice Provost of the Graduate School

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Walter Schaffer

NIH Research Training Officer

Office of Extramural Research

National Institutes of Health

Debra Stewart

President

Council of Graduate Schools, Washington DC