Reinventing Higher Education - IE

Reinventing Higher Education
The 2nd International Conference
The Role of the University in a Global Society
Program:
October 17th, 2011 (IE Business School, Maria de Molina 4)
18:00-18:30 Registration
18:30-18:45 Opening remarks
Santiago Iñiguez, President, IE University (Spain)
David Wheeler, Editor at Large, Global, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Paolo Quattrone, Professor, IE Business School, co-chair of the conference
18:45h Keynote: Lisa Anderson, President, The American University in Cairo (Egypt)
“The Role of the University in the Arab Youth Revolution”
19:30h Welcome cocktail
October 18th, 2011 (IE Business School, Maria de Molina 4)
09:00-10:30 Panel 1 : Institutional Innovation and Social Change in Higher Education
Vladimir Mau, Rector, Russian Presidential Academy
David E. Van Zandt, President, New School (US)
Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick (UK)
Moderator: David Wheeler, Editor at Large, Global, The Chronicle of Higher
Education (US)
10:30-12:00 Panel 2 : The Next Educational Champion? Higher Education in Latin
America
Carlos E. Cruz Limón, Vice President, Tecnológico de Monterrey (México)
Patricio Donoso, Vice President for Economic Affairs, PUC (Chile)
Carlos I. Simonsen Leal, President, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil)
Nunzio Quacquarelli, Founder and Managing Director, QS Ltd. (UK)
Moderator: Santiago Iñiguez, President, IE University (Spain)

12:30: Coffee Break
12:30-14:00 Panel 3 : Current International Developments and Globalization Trends in
Higher Education
Salim Al Malik, Director General for International Affairs, Ministry of Higher
Education (Saudi Arabia)
Matthew Gutmann, Vice President for International Affairs, Brown University (US)
Fulvio Ortu, Vice President for International Affairs , Bocconi University (Italy)
Francis Vérillaud, Vice President for International Affairs, Sciences Po (France)
Moderator: Francisco Ramirez, Professor, Stanford University (US)
14:00-15:00: Lunch Break
15:00-16:30 Panel 4 : The Stakeholders’ Perspective
Santiago Cabanas, Member of the International Council, United World Colleges
Rick Cameron, Head of Guidance and Pastoral Care, Antwerp Int. School (Belgium)
Martha Mackenzie, President of Student Union, University of Oxford (UK)
Tetiana Mykhailiuk, President, AIESEC International
Julian Metcalf University Liaison Officer EMEA, International Baccalaureate (UK)
Moderator: Carmelo Mazza, Professor, IE Business School (Spain)
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Panel 5 : The Future of University Governance: the Changing Role of the
University as Institution?
Massimo Egidi, Rector, LUISS Guido Carli University (Italy)
Wafa Elgarah, Dean , School of Business Administration at Al Akhawayn
Thomas Estermann, Head of the Unit Governance, Autonomy and Funding,
European University Association
Moderator: Paolo Quattrone, Professor, IE Business School (Spain)
18:30: Closing remarks
Rafael Benjumea, President of Advisory Board, IE University
David Wheeler, Editor at Large, Global, The Chronicle of Higher Education