What is the THE Research Excellence Summit: Asia-Pacific?
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The 2019 Times Higher Education Research Excellence Summit: Asia-Pacific explored the positive and long-term impact of university research on society in the Asia-Pacific region. Brought to you by THE, in partnership with the University of New South Wales Sydney, the summit looked at research quality, output and impact from universities in the region. The event saw the launch of the THE Asia-Pacific University Rankings 2019 - see the results here.
View the highlights from this year's summit:
The summit brought together more than 270 global attendees and celebrated academics and experts, with speakers including Australia’s chief scientist, Dr Alan Finkel; 2018 Global Energy Prize winner and Scientia professor Martin Green; associate vice-chancellor for government and community relations at New York University-Shanghai Hongxia Liu; 2018 Australian of the Year and Scientia professor Michelle Simmons; Nobel laureate and board of trustees professor of chemistry at Northwestern University Sir Fraser Stoddart,; 2018 Stockholm Water Prize winner Bruce Rittmann; and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong Xiang Zhang.Delegates had the opportunity to scrutinise exclusive THE data in an Asia-Pacific masterclass, with insights from university performance data across the region that revealed the emerging trends and potential challenges affecting university performance in Asia-Pacific and globally.Held during UNSW’s 70th anniversary year, delegates experienced the energy of the campus, home to 59,000 students from 130 nationalities, and 6,000 staff.
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Who attends?___
Vice-chancellors, rectors, presidents, deputy presidents, vice-presidents and distinguished scholars representing higher education and governments along with industries and businesses with close links to both sectors.
Professor Coaldrake has held his current position since 2003, having previously been deputy vice-chancellor at QUT. He is a former chair of Universities Australia and of Queensland’s Public Sector Management Commission. He has also written several books, including most recently (with Lawrence Stedman) Raising the Stakes: Gambling with the Future of Universities.
Tricia King recently became a vice-president at CASE after 20 years in UK higher education leadership roles, most recently as pro vice-master for strategic engagement at Birkbeck, University of London. She has previously served as director of marketing, recruitment and admissions at Roehampton University and as head of marketing at York St John University.
Professor Yeon-Cheon Oh took up his current role in 2015, having previously been president of Seoul National University. He is a former chairman of the Industry Development Advisory Committee and the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology at the Ministry of Knowledge and Economics. He is also former chairman of the Judicial Policy Advisory Committee.
Professor Casals took up his current position at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (UPF) in 2013, having previously served as executive vice-president of the university’s Continuing Education Institute, vice-rector for teaching staff and vice-rector for postgraduate and doctoral studies. He is also a full professor of Philosophy and a senior fellow of the Institute for Catalan Studies.
Professor Borrás is head of the Department of Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School, and visiting professor at CIRCLE (Center for Innovation, Research and Competences in the Learning Economy), Lund University, Sweden. She is also on the board of directors of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.