António Rendas is Rector of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He was Dean of the
Faculty of Medicine and he is Professor of Physiopathology. He has a PhD from the
Cardiothoracic Institute of the University of London. He was Research Associate in
Pathology at the Harvard Medical School and at the Children's Hospital Medical Center,
in Boston, USA. The Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian supported his work as a Research
Fellow and Honorary Registrar Brompton Hospital, Cardiothoracic Institute, University
of London. He is currently member of the Executive Committee of the Association of
Medical Schools in Europe.
Horst Hippler: Professor Dr. sc. tech. Horst Hippler is Full Professor for Physical
Chemistry and since 2002 Rector of the University of Karlsruhe (TH). Among other
positions, he was at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and held
a Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Research Laboratory in San José (California, USA), and
was Professor at the Universities of Göttingen, Karlsruhe and Lille 1 (France). His
principal research interests are pressure and temperature dependence of unimolecular
and of bimolecular complex- forming reactions.
Ralph A. Eichler is President at ETH Zurich. He studied Physics at ETH Zurich. He
did his PhD-thesis at the SIN (Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research). After research
positions in USA and Germany he became Associate Professor in 1983 and Full
Professor for Experimental Physics at the Institute of Particle Physics of ETH Zurich in
1993. Between 1995 - 1997 he chaired an international collaboration of 400 researchers
at DESY, Hamburg. In 1998, he was elected Deputy Director and in July 2002 Director
of the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen.
Ewan McKendrick is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of English Private Law at the
University of Oxford and a barrister of Gray's Inn, London. He is a widely published
author of numerous books and articles in the areas of contract law, commercial law and
tort law and is an editor of Chitty on Contracts. He holds a BCL, MA, LLB (Edinburgh)
and is also of Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. Formerly he was a Professor of English
Law, University College London, Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford and Linnells
Lecturer in Law in the University of Oxford; Lecturer in Law, London School of
Economics and Political Science, Lecturer in Law, University of Essex, and Lecturer in
Law, University of Central Lancashire, 1984-1985. He is a member of the Editorial
Committee of Current Legal Problems and the General Editor of the Oxford Journal of
Legal Studies. He is a member of Chambers at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn.
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Axel Horstmann is a member of the Executive Management as Head of the Division
“Humanities and Social Sciences” at the VolkswagenStiftung in Hanover and Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. He studied classics, philosophy and
Evangelical Theology at the University of Münster where he received his doctorate in
1971. He was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of
Bochum before joining the VolkswagenStiftung in 1979 where he became member of
the Executive Management in 2000. He has also been teaching philosophy since 1981 at
the University of Hamburg where he completed his Habilitation in 1986. He is a
member of the academic advisory board of the journal Mythos, of an advisory council at
the University of Oldenburg, and of the board of trustees of the Hanns-Lilje-Stiftung in
Hanover as well as of the steering committee of the “Jahr der Geisteswissenschaften
2007”, initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Diogo Lucena is a Member of the Board of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. He is a
Full Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has a PhD in Engineering
Economic Systems from Stanford University. He has been a Professor at the Instituto
Superior Técnico, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a Visiting Professor at Stanford
University.
Paul A. David is Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow of the Institute for
Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. He is Professor Emeritus of
Economics and Economic History in the University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of All
Souls College, Oxford and currently Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute.
David is the author of more than 150 journal articles and contributions to edited
volumes, as well as of the author and editor of several books including Technical
Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth (1975) and The Economic Future in
Historical Perspective (2003). He was among the pioneering practitioners of the “new
economic history,” and is known internationally for wide-ranging contributions in the
fields of American economic history, economic and historical demography, and the
economics of science and technology.
Ian Leslie is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Cambridge, United
Kingdom since 2004. Professor Ian Leslie was Head of the Computer Laboratory and
Director of Studies in Computer Science at Christ's College. His research interests are in
computer networks and operating systems, with particular interest in performance
guarantees. He is a co-founder of Nemesys Research Limited, producing hardware and
software to allow cost effective video connection to ATM networks and CPlane Inc
which exploited work concerned with network control.
Fernando Seabra Santos is Rector of the University of Coimbra and President of the
Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities. He is a Full Professor of the Faculty
of Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra. He has held various positions
Professor at Université Scientifique et Médicale de Grenoble, at the Faculty of Sciences
of Universidade de Lisboa and at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. He
holds a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de
Grenoble.”
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Rolf Rossaint is Professor and Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology at the
University Hospital (since 1997) and Vice-Rector for Finances and Construction Affair
at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen (since 2002),
Germany. Dr. Rossaint studied medicine at the University of Düsseldorf and is board
certified in Anaesthesiology. Prior to his present appointment, he was Associate
Professor in the Clinics for Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care at the
Humboldt University of Berlin. Dr. Rossaint was the recipient of the E.-K. Frey Prize
(1993), the Pulmedica Prize (1996), the Annual Scientific Award (1996) from the
European Academy of Anaesthesiology and the Poster Award of 25th International
Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2005. He has (co) authored
over 260 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His clinical and research interests include
pulmonary pathophysiology, ALI/ARDS/sepsis treatment, liver replacement therapy,
xenon anaesthesia and factor VIIa.
Cyrille Van Effenterre is President of ParisTech and Director of ENGREF (Ecole
Nationale du Genie Rural et des Eaux et Forets. He was Director for Rural Space and
Forestry in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (1998-2000). He was
technical adviser at the ministerial cabinet of Louis Mermaz (Minister of Agriculture
and Forestry 1991-92) and of Jean-Pierre Soisson (Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development (1992-93). He also was Director of Agriculture and Forestry of the
Department of Savoie (1993-98).
Gunnar Landgren Vice-President for Research at the Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH), Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. by the Chalmers Technical University/University of
Gothenburg and his mains fields of expertise are semiconductor technology and
devices, photonics, microelectronics, materials physics, nanotechnology.
José Encarnação is Chairman, INI-GraphicsNet Foundation, and Technical University
of Darmstadt, Germany. José Encarnação is a Professor of computer science at the
Technical University of Darmstadt, head of its Interactive Graphics Research Group,
chair of the board of the Darmstadt Computer Graphics Center, and Director of the
Darmstadt R&D institute of the Fraunhofer Research Society. He serves as a consultant
to government, industry, and several international institutions, and was a founder of
EUROGRAPHICS.
Alberto Amaral is Professor at the University of Porto and Director of CIPES. He was
chair of CHER until 2007, is member of the board of IMHE, life member of IAUP, and
member of EAIR, SCUP, SHRE and CIES. He is member of the editorial boards of
Quality Assurance in Education, of Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and
Development and the Springer Series Higher Education Dynamics. He is editor and coeditor of several books, including Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives
on Institutional Governance (2002), The Higher Education Managerial Revolution?
(2003), Markets in Higher Education: Rhetoric or Reality? (2004), Reform and Change
in Higher Education: Analysing Policy Implementation (2005).
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Paulo Santiago, a Portuguese national, is a Senior Analyst in the Directorate for
Education, OECD, where he has been since 2000. At present he assumes responsibility
for OECD’s Thematic Review of Tertiary Education, a 3-year cross-country review
involving 24 countries, which seeks to formulate directions for tertiary education policy
development. He has led reviews of tertiary education policy in several countries.
Previously he assumed responsibility for a major cross-country review in the area of
teacher policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University, United
States, where he also lectured. With a background in the economics of education, he
specialises in education policy analysis.
António Camara, Chief Executive Officer, António Câmara is a Professor at
Universidade Nova de Lisboa and has been a Visiting Professor at Cornell University
(1988-89) and MIT (1998-99). He was a Senior Consultant to the Expo98 project and
Senior Advisor to the National Geographical Information System. He has been
YDreams CEO since the company was founded in June 2000.
Karin Markides, is the President and CEO of Chalmers University of Technology,
Sweden since 2006 and holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry, by the Stockholm
University. Previously she was Vice Director General at Vinnova (Swedish
Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems) from 2004-2006, Chair Professor and
Dean at Uppsala University between 1989 and 2004, and Research Professor at
Brigham Young University, Utah, USA, 1984 – 1989.
Thierry Coulhon, is President of the University Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France since 15
June 2004. Since 1992 he has been a researcher at this university and held several posts,
such as advisor for research to the president and advisor of culture to the president of
the university. Between 1991-1992 he has held a position at CNRS. His academic
background includes the “Habilitation to direct research in mathematics”, Paris VI,
1991and DEA de philosophie, Université Paris I, 1985. Since December 2006, he is also
Vice-President of the Conférence des Présidents d'Université.
Hannemor Keidel, is Vice President of the Technische Universität München (TUM),
Germany, responsible for International Affairs, since 2000. In 2005 she received the
order "Chevalier dans Ordre des Palmes Académiques" and in Sept 2002 was a
Fulbright-Scholar. She holds a doctorate Dr. Phil. with the thesis “Political Aspects of
Broadcasting Control in the Federal Republic of Germany” and has worked as an
assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences of the Technical University in Munich and
as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin.) at the same
institute.
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Winfried Heinze is Director for International and External Affairs of the Technical
University of Darmstadt, Germany. He holds a PhD in Political Sciences and History of
Science and has been appointed Academic Director at TU Darmstadt in 1986. He has
been appointed Professor honoris causa by the Mongolian University of Technology
Ulaan Baatar, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ecole Centrale
Paris. He took up a post in the Akademischer Rat (AR) in 1986 and in the
Akademischer Oberrat (AOR) in the following year. He is also advisor for the CESAER
President (Conference of European Schools of Advanced Engineering, Education and
Research).
Jean-François RICCI trained as a civil engineer at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) where he got his diploma in 1989. From 1989 to 1991 he
worked as a teaching and research assistant in the civil engineering Department of
EPFL. He then spent a year in Japan as a visiting scientist and returned to Switzerland
in 1992 to work as a structural engineer on various large construction projects. He
joined EPFL in 1997 as head of strategic planning. Since 2000 he has been a member of
the management team of EPFL. He is deeply involved in the strategic management of
the School, the conduct of major structural reforms and the leading of strategic projects
both intern or in close relations with external institutions.
Jean-Pierre Contzen, Chairman of the Board of the von Karman Institute for Fluid
Dynamics in Belgium and Special Adviser to the Portuguese Minister for Science and
Technology. He is also Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the
International Science and Technology Centre in Moscow and Senior Adviser at the
Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in Tokyo. Previously, he
held several positions in nuclear and space research organisations before joining the
European Commission where he became Director General of the Joint Research Centre
(JRC).
João Sentieiro, is President of the Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal.
He is a Full Professor in Instituto Superior Técnico and holds a PhD in Electrotecnic
Engineering by the University of London (Imperial College). He was Director of the
Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisbon), and Secretary to the Council of the
Associated Laboratories, National Delegate to several committees in the European
Space Agency (ESA) and was member of the Council for Science, Technology and
Innovation and a member of the Economic and Social Committee.
Dagmar Meyer manages the Marie Curie Office at the Irish Universities Association
(IUA), acting as Irish National Contact Point for the EU’s "Marie Curie" Researcher
Mobility Programme. She has a scientific background in mathematics and physics,
where she holds post-graduate degrees from the Universities of Heidelberg and
Cambridge. After obtaining her PhD from the University of Heidelberg she went to
France as a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at the Université Paris 13. In 2001 she
returned to her native Germany to take up a position as Assistant Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Göttingen. She was a board member of the Marie
Curie Fellowship Association for five years and its president from 2003 – 2005, and a
member of the European Commission's External Advisory Group on Human Resources
and Mobility from 2005 – 2006.
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Francisco Veloso is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and
Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He also has an appointment with the
Portuguese Catholic University. His research focuses on how firms and regions develop
and leverage scientific and technical capabilities for economic growth. He has published
in leading academic journals and worked with various international organizations in
these areas. Francisco Veloso has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, an M.S. from ISEG and a Diploma from IST, both schools of the
Technical University of Lisbon.
Mary Ritter, is Pro-Rector for Postgraduate Affairs at Imperial College London (UK)
including the International portfolio. She headed the Department of Immunology from
2004-March 2006, and from 1999 to February 2006 was Director of the Graduate
School of Life Sciences and Medicine (GSLSM) at Imperial. Professor Ritter holds a
DPhil in Immunology from the University of Oxford. After Research Fellowships at
the University of Connecticut, USA, and Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London UK,
she took up an academic post at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School - now the
Hammersmith Campus of Imperial College London. She sits on a number of national
and international committees including the UK Medical Research Council's NonClinical Careers Training and Development Panel, The Academy of Medical Sciences'
Academic Careers Committee, and others. She chairs the UK Research Councils' "UK
GRAD" Steering Committee and the UKIERI Evaluation Panel, and is Vice Chair of the
recently established Steering Committee of the EUA Council on Doctoral Education.
Martin Vetterli, is Vice-President of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL) in Switzerland and responsible for international relations. Martin Vetterli has an
Engineering degree from Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ), an
MS from Stanford University and a Doctorate from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne (EPFL). He was an Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York,
and a Full Professor at the University of California at Berkeley before joining the
Communication Systems Division of EPFL. He was Chair of Communication Systems,
and founding director of the National Centre on Mobile Information and
Communication Systems at EPFL. He has won numerous prizes, like best paper awards
from EURASIP in 1984 and of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1991, 1996 and
2006, the Swiss National Latsis Prize in 1996, the SPIE Presidential award in 1999, and
the IEEE Signal Processing Technical Achievement Award in 2001. He is a Fellow of
IEEE, and was a member of the Swiss Council on Science and Technology (20002004).
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Giancarlo Spinelli, Rector’s Delegate for International Relations, Politecnico di
Milano, Italy. Giancarlo Spinelli graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico di
Milano. He has devoted many years to research in continuum mechanics, and in special
and general relativity, publishing in international magazines. Since 1980 he is Full
Professor of Rational Mechanics: in 1980 at the Università degli Studi di Padova and
since 1981 at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1987 to 1994, he was Vice-Dean of the
College of Engineering and from 1990 to 1994, Pro-Rector for International Relations.
He was President of the Centre for International Relations of the Politecnico di Milano
and since 2002 the Rector’s Delegate for International Relations. In 1997, he was also
President of EAIE (European Association for International Education). From 2000 to
2004 he has served on the board of ETS/Toefl.
Hans Beunderman is Director of Strategic & Management Support of Delft University
of Technology, Netherlands since 2006. As policy advisor to the Executive Board of the
University he is responsible for the strategy process of the Delft University of
Technology. In 1998 he became Dean and Professor at his home school, Faculty of
Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences, where he amongst others founded the
“Delft School of Design” in 2003. As Dean he was a member of the TU Delft
University Advisory Council and Chairman of the Board of the Research Institute OTB.
From 1985-1998 he was employed by the Dutch Ministry of Spatial Planning, Housing
and Environment in Hague, in several senior policy and management positions.
Inge Knudsen is the Director of the Coimbra Group Office in Brussels. Prior to that,
Ms Knudsen has worked as Senior Project Manager of the European University
Association (EUA) (2001-2005).A graduate of the Denmark's University of Aarhus, she
taught in its Faculty of Arts, was Chairman of its Faculty of Arts Study Board and a
member of the Board of the University. She also served on other several university
appointments. She is a former chairman of the European Association of Universities
Public Relations and Information Officers. Following a period in the ERASMUS
Bureau in Brussels (1989-1993), she was appointed Director of the Confederation of
European Union Rectors' Conferences. She was closely associated with all steps of the
Bologna-Salamanca-Prague-Berlin process, being responsible for the Trends I and
Trends II reports, and participated actively in the work of the follow-up group that
steered the process from Bologna to Prague.
António Mourão Dias is Director General for Higher Education in Portugal since 2004.
He is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of
Coimbra and holds a Doctoratès- Physics (Doctorat d’ État), University of Paris XI, and
a PhD in Engineering Sciences, in the area of Mechanical Engineering, from the
University of Coimbra. Previously he was Head of the Group of Residual Tensions
from the Centre of Studies for Materials by Diffraction of X-Rays, R&D U, Head of the
Group of Control and Management from the Centre of Mechanical Engineering Studies,
University of Coimbra, as well as Scientific Director for a great number of national and
European R&D projects, and for contracts celebrated with industrial companies. He is
also Member of the Executive Commission of the Ibero-American Federation of
Mechanical Engineering.
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Koen Geven is the President of the European Student’s Union (ESU) and a student in
political sciences at Amsterdam University. The ESU aims at representing and
promoting the educational, social, economic and cultural interests of students at a
European level. Through its members, the 47 National Unions of Students from 36
European countries, ESU represents 10 million of students in Europe.
Georg Winckler is President of the European University Association Professor Georg
Winckler is President of the European University Association since 2005. He is Rector
of the University of Vienna and President of the Austrian Rector’s Conference in 20002005.
Ian Halliday is President of the European Science Foundation and Chief Executive of
SUPA (The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance). Chief Executive of the UK Particle
Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) from 1997 to 2005; Professor of
Physics, he has published numerous papers in the field of Particle Physics Theory.
Abrar Hasan, a Canadian national, and Ph.D. in Labour Economics, is a Visiting
Fellow at the International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, Paris. Dr.
Hasan recently retired as Head of Education and Training Policy Division in the
Directorate for Education, OECD, a position he had held since 1994. In that capacity,
he coordinated the team of OECD experts that directed work on all aspects of
comparative education policy. He led the OECD team that produced the report
“Reviews of national policies for education –tertiary education in Portugal” requested
by the government last year. Prior to OECD he was senior economist with the
Economic Council of Canada. Earlier in his career, he also lectured at the University of
Illinois, Chicago Campus.
Manuel Heitor is Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education in
Portugal. He is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST,
Technical University of Lisbon) and he was the founding director of the “Centre for
Innovation, Technology and Policy Research”.
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