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Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education Management & Policy Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Educational Management from the Cavite State University and a postdoctoral training in TQM in Higher Education from Centro Escolar University, both from the Philippines. He has received a University of Pretoria postdoctoral fellowship, grant award for Young Professors and Researchers in African Universities from Coimbra Group and is visiting scholar to Indiana University. Katja Aleksandriyskaya is a doctoral student at the Chair of Policy Analysis at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. In her doctoral thesis she is concentrating on school education reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. Her main areas of research are second- ary education policy and post-communist transformation processes. In her research she is particularly focusing on the influence of local actors and interest groups on education policies and with issues of governance. Alberto Amaral is an Honorary Professor, University of Porto, Portugal, and a researcher, Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES). He was Rector of the University of Porto, 1985–98, and former chair of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER). He is a life member of IAUP. At present he is the chair of the executive board of the Portuguese Assessment and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education. Sandra Archer is an education data researcher, specializing in both quantitative and qualitative research to support informed national, state and institutional decision making. She previously served as Director for University Analysis and Planning Support at the University of Central Florida, USA, with primary responsibility for developing analytics to support university planning. She has a PhD in industrial engineering with specializa- tion in operations research and an MS in statistics from the University of Central Florida. Ian Austin is Deputy Director, Continuing and Professional Education, University of the West Indies Open Campus, Barbados, and recently served as Principal, Barbados Community College. His primary area of research interest is the governance of higher education and he has co-authored a book entitled: Governance of Higher Education: Theories, Global Perspectives and Practices (Routledge, 2016). Elizabeth Bell is a doctoral student in Political Science, University of Oklahoma, USA, studying higher education policy and public administration. Her research explores the implications of higher education policy for institutional accountability, bureaucratic implementation and student outcomes. As such, she interacts with the scholarly com- munity in public policy and public administration as well as routinely producing work that is relevant to policymakers. Paul Benneworth is a Senior Researcher, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands, and a Senior Researcher at Agderforskning,

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Norway. His research focuses on better conceptualizing the connections between higher education and society, and the implications this raises for policy and practice. Christian Blanco is the Academic Director, Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (CRUCH). He holds an MSc degree in Sociology, University of Oxford, MSc in Social Systems, BA in Sociology and BA in Philosophy, Universidad de Chile. His research interests include civil society, school choice, higher education, universities, scientific research, internationalization, quality assurance, agent-based modelling and analytical sociology. Victor Borden is Professor of Higher Education, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, where he also directs the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Previously he directed the institutional research operations of four higher education institutions. His general area of scholarship is on the assessment of higher education institutional and program performance. He was a Fulbright Specialist in South Africa and is Past President of the Association for Institutional Research. Robert Bringle is Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies and Senior Scholar, Center for Service and Learning, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA. From 2012 to 2015 he was the Kulynych/Cline Visiting Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Appalachian State University. He served as Executive Director of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Center for Service and Learning, 1994–2012. He has a PhD and PhilD. Roger Brown is the former Vice Chancellor of Southampton Solent University, UK. He has been a professor, visiting professor or equivalent at twelve universities. He is an international authority on the application of market-based policies to higher education. In 2013 he received Times Higher Education’s Lifetime Achievement Award. His latest book, The Inequality Crisis: The Facts and What We Can Do About it, was published by Policy Press in September 2017. Gwilym Croucher is a visiting Research Fellow, University of California Berkeley, USA, Center for Studies in Higher Education. A Fulbright Scholar, he is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, as well as Principal Policy Adviser in the University of Melbourne’s Chancellery. David D. Dill is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He has been a Visiting Professor at: the University of Manchester; Wolfson College, Cambridge University; the University of Twente; and the European University Institute, Florence. His research interests include public policy analysis, the regulation of academic quality, and research policy. He directs the Research Program on Public Policy for Academic Quality. Michael Dobbins is Assistant Professor for Policy Analysis, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. His doctoral thesis dealt with higher education in Central and Eastern Europe. His main areas of research are higher and secondary education policy, policymaking in the EU, and post-communist transformation processes. His education research deals spe- cifically with issues of governance, the impact of internationalization, as well as partisan politics and interest groups in education.

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Daniel Edwards is Research Director, Tertiary Education Research Program, Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia. His research encompasses a range of edu- cational issues, with particular emphasis on higher education. The work explores issues relating to graduate and alumni outcomes, supply of and demand for higher education, student achievement, student aspirations and pathways, selection policies for entrance to university, assessment development and educational ‘choice’ theories. He has a BA (Hons) and PhD from Monash University. Alisa Hicklin Fryar is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oklahoma, USA, where she also directs the programmes in public administration, public policy and nonprofit organizational studies. Her research focuses primarily on issues related to higher education policy, public management, organizational leadership and account- ability. She received her PhD from Texas A&M University and her BS from Lamar University. Satoko Fukahori is Director, Department for Higher Education Research, National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER), Japan, the research arm of the Japanese Ministry of Education. She is also Director of the Tuning National Center housed at NIER. Her research focuses on quality assurance of higher education and learning outcomes assessment in particular. She was Japan’s national coordinator of the OECD-AHELO Feasibility Study, and based on this experience, leads its spin-off project, the ‘Tuning Test Item Bank’ in mechanical engineering. Andrew Gibson is a PhD candidate with the Cultures, Academic Values in Education (CAVE) Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, researching sociology of the military, professionalisation and higher education. He was previously a researcher with the Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, and the HEFCE/ESRC-funded Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), London, UK. Fei Guo is an Assistant Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She holds a PhD in Economics and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include student development in higher education, economic returns to higher education, and educational equity in China. Martin Hanlon is Director, Planning and Quality Unit, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is also the current Chair of the Australian Network of University Planners (ANUP). Martin has co-authored various international publications and presented at conferences in the field of institutional research. He also chaired the 2012 annual forum of the Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR). Martin serves as a non-Executive Director on a non-profit Board. Lee Harvey is founder and editor of Quality in Higher Education. He was previously Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and founder-Director, Centre for Research into Quality, University of Central England, and Centre for Research and Evaluation, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He was also Director of Research, Higher Education Academy. His recent research areas are: research methodology; higher education policy; quality, quality assurance and quality culture; employability; student feedback; learning and teaching, diversity and funding.

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Martin Hicks is Executive Director, Data and Statistics, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), Canada. He is responsible for building HEQCO’s data infrastructure and capacity. Previously he served in the Ontario Cabinet Office and as a senior administrator at Durham College. He received his BA and LLB from the University of Toronto. Nicholas Hillman is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research focuses on postsecond- ary finance and financial aid policy, primarily as they relate to college access and equity. This work includes research on student loan debt, performance-based funding and college affordability. Angela Yung-chi Hou is Professor of Higher Education, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. She now serves as Executive Director, Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council as well as the Vice President of APQN. She was recognized by Springer as one of the top 24 Asian researchers in the higher education field. Over the past five years, she has been awarded ‘Outstanding Researcher’ by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Futao Huang is Professor at the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan. He is mainly concerned with research into the internationalization of higher education, academic profession, university and college curriculum, and East Asian higher education. Jeroen Huisman is Professor of Higher Education, Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent (CHEGG), Ghent University, Belgium. He holds a PhD in Public Administration, University of Twente. From 2005 to 2013 he was Professor of Higher Education Management, University of Bath. He is editor of Higher Education Policy, co-editor of the SRHE/Routledge book series, and co-editor of the Emerald Series Theory and Method in Higher Education Research. Yusnidah Ibrahim is Professor of Finance, School of Economics, Finance and Banking (SEFB), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). She has a BA and MA from the University of Iowa, USA and a PhD from De Montfort University. Her research areas are in capital structure, corporate and business finance and higher education finance. She also serves as editorial board member of several international journals and is a member of UUM’s Investment Committee. Russayani Ismail is Associate Professor, School of Economics, Finance and Banking, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). She served as the Director at the Centre for Testing, Measurement and Appraisal (CeTMA) UUM from 2012 to 2017 and the Director of Institute for Economic Research, UUM from 2007 to 2008. She obtained a PhD from the University of Exeter. Her areas of specialization are public sector economics, microeco- nomic theory and economics of education. Natasha A. Jankowski serves as Director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and Research Assistant Professor, Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is co-author with her NILOA colleagues of the book Using Evidence of Student

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Learning to Improve Higher Education as well as co-author of Degrees that Matter: Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm. Emeline Jerez is a PhD candidate, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. She has been active in the field of higher education for more than a decade, working as a researcher and analyst, as well as holding administrative positions in Chilean higher education. Her research interests are in areas of policy, management, comparative analysis, quality and internationalization. Glen A. Jones is Professor of Higher Education and Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on higher education systems, governance and academic work. His current projects include an edited volume focusing on academic career pathways in the context of national systems (with Martin Finkelstein) and a national study of university governance in Canada. Ben Jongbloed is a Senior Research Associate, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, the Netherlands. His research is on issues of governance and resource allocation in higher education. He has been involved in several national and international research projects for clients such as the European Commission and national ministries. His recent work is on performance agreements in higher education, university rankings (U-Multirank) and entrepreneurship in higher education (HEInnovate). Jens Jungblut is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) and the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, and a Postdoctoral Researcher, International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel, Germany. He received his PhD from the Department of Education, University of Oslo. His research interests include higher education policy, policymaking and governance, party politics, and organizational change in higher education. Roger King was previously Vice Chancellor, University of Lincoln, UK, and is currently a Visiting Professor, University of Bath, UK, a Research Associate at the London School of Economics, and a member of the UK Parliamentary Higher Education Commission. He is Chair of the Board of Governors, UK College of Business and Computing, London. He has published on regulation, governance and globalization. Kevin Kinser is Professor and Department Head of Education Policy Studies and Senior Scientist, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is also a Senior Fellow for Internationalization at NAFSA: Association of International Educators and co-director of the Cross-Border Education Research Team. His research focuses on non-traditional and alternative higher education, particularly the public policies and organizational structures related to private for-profit institutions and international cross-border higher education. Manja Klemenčič is Lecturer in Sociology, Harvard University, USA. She researches, teaches, advises and consults in the area of international and comparative higher educa- tion, with particular interest in the implications of contemporary reforms on students. Manja is Editor of European Journal of Higher Education (Taylor & Francis); Co-Editor of the book series Understanding Student Experiences in Higher Education (Bloomsbury)

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and Thematic Editor of International Encyclopaedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions (Springer). George D. Kuh is Adjunct Research Professor, University of Illinois and Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education Emeritus, Indiana University (IU), USA. He is a senior scholar with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and the founding director of IU’s Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). He has published more than 400 items and consulted with about 375 institutions and organizations in the US and abroad. Jason E. Lane is Chair of the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership and Co-Director of the Cross-Border Education Research Team at the State University of New York (SUNY), Albany, USA, as well as founding executive director of the SUNY Academic and Innovative Leadership (SAIL) Institute. His scholarly expertise focuses on the leadership, governance and accountability of higher education, particularly as it relates to the emerging relationship between higher education, policy and politics, and globalization. Lis Lange is Vice-Rector Academic, University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. Previously she was Executive Director, Higher Education Quality Committee, Council on Higher Education, South Africa. For 15 years she has been involved in the development and implementation of higher education policy in South Africa, working in national bodies. Her publications focus on higher education policy, curriculum and quality assur- ance locally and internationally. Mary Catharine Lennon has an academic and professional background in higher educa- tion research, policy development and advice. The majority of her work is in system-level issues such as accountability, quality assurance and assessment. She has worked in institutions, provincial, inter-provincial and international higher education agencies, and is currently with the Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board in Ontario, Canada. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto, where she received her PhD. Stein Erik Lid is a senior adviser at NOKUT (Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education), Norway, where he primarily works with analyses to identify what constitutes good quality in higher education, using both quantitative and qualitative data. He has a background as an academic researcher in Molecular Biology and Genetics, and holds a PhD from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Nian Cai Liu is Professor and Director, Center for World-Class Universities, and Dean of Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His current research interests include world-class universities and research universities, university evaluation and academic ranking, research evaluation and science policy, and globaliza- tion and internationalization of higher education. He is one of the Vice-Presidents of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. Yan Luo is Associate Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University, China. Her research interests focused on college student assessment and sociological neo- institutionalism. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in education from

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Beijing Normal University, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Hong Kong. During 2011 to 2013 she worked as an expert (P-4) in the Section of Higher Education at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Marian Mahat has more than twenty years of professional and academic experience, spanning several Australian universities, the Australian Federal and local governments, as well as the private sector. She has worked on collaborative projects, written numerous publications and presented at conferences in education. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Research Manager on an international linkage project. Her research interests are in student learning and outcomes in different learning and teaching contexts. Julián P. Mariño directs the Evaluation Center of the School of Education, Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia. From 2007 to 2015 he headed the Evaluation Department at ICFES, the Colombian national agency for education quality evaluation. His focus of interest is assessment development. Michaela Martin works as a programme specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Educational Planning, France. She has a track record of more than 25 years in research and teaching in higher education policy, governance and planning. She specializes in resource management in higher education, the management of university–industry partnerships, indicator systems for the monitoring of higher education systems and governance reform in higher education. Over the years she has published some 50 single or co-authored books, articles and several series of training modules. William F. Massy is a consultant, Emeritus Professor, and former Vice President for Business and Finance at Stanford University, USA. He co-directed the U.S. National Center for Postsecondary Improvement, served on Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is an Honorary Faculty Fellow at the University of Melbourne (AU). His most recent book is Reengineering the University: How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious. He holds a PhD from MIT, and a BS from Yale University. Kenneth Moore is a PhD candidate, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Australia, researching productivity in higher education. He holds a BS in Pure Mathematics and an EdM in International Educational Development. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Kentucky Colonel. He has many years’ experience working in the USA, Australia and Indonesia within secondary education, tertiary education, the not-for- profit sector, and small business. Sibusiso Moyo holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, and a Master’s in Tertiary Education Management from the LH Martin Institute, University of Melbourne. She has published widely in the Mathematical Sciences with a focus on differential equations and optimization problems. She served as Director for Research and Postgraduate Support until 2017 when she was appointed as Deputy Vice- Chancellor (Research, Innovation and Engagement), Durban University of Technology. Peter Noonan is Professorial Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University and Honorary Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. He has played a major role in shaping tertiary education policy in Australia as a senior public servant, consultant and researcher for over 25 years, including as a

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member of the Expert Panels which advised the current and former governments on higher education policy. Dominic Orr is a British national who has a doctorate in comparative education from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He has worked for the German Centre for Higher Education and Science Studies as senior researcher and international project leader, as well as being an external consultant to the OECD, the World Bank and UNESCO on various topics related to higher education and ICT in education. Currently he is senior researcher at FiBS-Research Institute in Berlin. Richard J. Shavelson is Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology, and I. James Quillen Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University (Emeritus), USA. He was president of AERA; is a fellow of AAAS, AERA, APA, APS, and the Humboldt Society, and member of the National Academy of Education and the International Academy of Education. His research focuses on the measurement of student learning in higher education. Jinghuan Shi is Professor and Executive Dean, Institute of Education (IOE), Director, Center for the Assessment of College and Student Development, Tsinghua University, China. Her research interests focus on higher education, assessment of college students’ learning and development, history and comparative study of higher education. She received her PhD from Beijing Normal University. Ole-Jacob Skodvin is educated in economics and human geography. Since 2010 he has been Director of Analysis and Development at NOKUT (Department of Analysis and Development), Norway. Before that, he was a Deputy Director, Ministry of Education and Research (Department of Higher Education, 2005–10) and a researcher II (senior researcher) at Norwegian Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Education (NIFU). He has published nationally and internationally on various topics related to higher education, including issues focusing on mergers, organizational development and evaluations of different higher education reforms. Bjørn Stensaker is Professor of Higher Education, University of Oslo, Norway. He has a special interest in issues related to governance, organizational change and management in higher education. He has written extensively on these themes in a range of international journals and books. Francois Strydom is Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has been the project leader of the South African Surveys of Student Engagement (SASSE) since 2007, which has influenced national quality assurance practices. He has collaborated on various higher education initiatives related to access and success with higher education consortiums and Universities South Africa (USAf). He received his DPhil from Oxford University. Pedro Nuno Teixeira is Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal. He is Director, Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES). He has been a member of Portugal’s National Council of Education since 2014, of the Board of the BIAL Foundation since 2015, and has served as an adviser on higher education to the President of Portugal since April 2016. He has also

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served on the evaluation panels for the European University Association (EUA) and the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), and member of the Education Board of the Foundation Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Lisbon. Robert J.W. Tijssen holds the Chair of Science and Innovation Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and is also Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His other professional affiliations include the HEFCE/ESRC-funded Centre for Global Higher Education, London, and a visiting research fellowship at the University of Bologna. His research portfolio and academic publications focus on quantitative, empiri- cal studies of intersections and interactions between science, technology, innovation and higher education. Alex Usher is President of Higher Education Strategy Associates, Canada, and Editor- in-Chief of Global Higher Education Strategy Monitor. Previously, he was Director of Educational Policy Institute Canada, where he managed the ‘Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Aid’ project for the Millennium Scholarship Foundation. He wrote Ten Years Back and Ten Years Forward: Developments and Trends in Higher Education in Europe Region for UNESCO. He sits on a variety of advisory, supervisory and editorial boards in Canada, Europe and Asia. He holds degrees from McGill University and Carleton University. Frans van Vught is a ‘high level expert’ at the European Commission. He was previ- ously Rector and President, University of Twente, the Netherlands; Chairman of the Netherlands’ House for Education and Research (Nether) in Brussels; Chair of the Review Committee of the ‘performance agreements’ in Dutch higher education; and Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS). He has published widely on higher education policy and management and holds several honorary doctorates. N.V. Varghese is Vice Chancellor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, and Director, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE), New Delhi, India. Prior to his current assignment, he was Head of Governance and Management in Education, International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP/ UNESCO), Paris. While at NIEPA he was responsible for the Asian regional network (ANTRIEP). While at IIEP he was Secretary General, International Working Group on Education (IWGE). He has directed several research projects and published several books and articles. Hans Vossensteyn is the Director, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente (CHEPS), the Netherlands. Since 2007 Hans has been a Programme Leader at the MBA Higher Education and Science Management at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. As a scholar, he studies higher education policy issues such as funding, student financing and access, internation- alization, relevance, quality and study success. He serves on various advisory boards and higher education strategy commissions. Martina Vukasovic is a Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent (CHEGG), Ghent University, Belgium. She holds a joint MPhil degree in Higher Education from the universities of Aveiro, Tampere and Oslo as well as a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on multi-level, multi-actor governance of knowledge, specifically the interaction between European,

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national and organizational-level processes, activities of stakeholder organizations, policy coordination and policy convergence. Robert Wagenaar is Director, International Tuning Academy, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, which is an education and research centre with a focus on the reform of higher education programmes. From 2003 until mid-2014, he was Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies (Dean of Studies), Faculty of Arts of the same University. His research interest is in higher education innovation. Chang Da Wan is Senior Lecturer, National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia. He holds a DPhil. from the University of Oxford, and his main research interests are higher education and economics. He is also an Affiliate Member of the Young Scientists Network Academy of Sciences Malaysia. Everard Weber studied at the University of Cape Town and Harvard University. He has worked at Crestway High School in Cape Town, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the University of Johannnesburg. He is Professor and Head: Education Management and Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, South Africa. His book, ‘A Home Away From Home’: A Community of International and South African Students, was published by Nova: New York in 2017. Harvey P. Weingarten is President and CEO, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), Canada, an independent agency of the Ontario government with the legislated mandate to improve the accessibility, quality and accountability of the province’s colleges and universities. He is the former president and vice-chancellor of the University of Calgary, and provost at McMaster University. He received his BSc from McGill University, and his MSc, MPhil and PhD from Yale University. Wen Wen is Associate Professor in Higher Education, Tsinghua University, China. Her research interests include sociology of education, comparative higher education and educational policy. Her recent book, The Formulation and Transition of China’s Education Policy from 1978 to 2007: A Policy Discourse Analysis, was published in 2012. She received her PhD from Oxford University in 2010. Don F. Westerheijden is Senior Research Associate, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, the Netherlands, where he coordinates research on quality management. He studies quality assurance and accreditation, their impacts, as well as university rankings. He edited and contributed to books on quality assurance in higher education, and (co-)authored a large number of articles on the topic. Evaluation of higher education policies is another of his research interests. Ross Williams is Emeritus Professor, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, Australia. He was formerly Professor of Econometrics and Dean. He is currently the lead investigator in the Universitas 21 project, which ranks national systems of higher education. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for service to education, as a contributor to professional publications, and as an adviser to state and Federal governments’. Tianli Yang is a postdoctoral research fellow at Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. In 2015 she obtained a PhD in

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Education from the University of Tokyo, as well as entering CWCU, mainly focusing on research related to university rankings and higher education quality. At present she is also working as an adjunct researcher at the University of Tokyo. Nadine Zeeman is a scientific staff member, Center for Higher Education TU Dortmund University, Germany. She works on the Interdisciplinarity in German Universities project and is involved in student supervision and teaching. Her areas of research interest include policy analysis, research governance and management, transparency tools and the relationships between universities and society. Li Zhang is the US–Taiwan PIRE Project manager, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), USA, and Director of the Cross-Border Education Research Team’s (C-BERT) China Project. She received her PhD in international higher education from the Department of Education Policy and Leadership, University at Albany, SUNY. Her research interests include international branch campuses and their operation and governance. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia is the Professor of Business and Economics Education, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. She has directed numerous externally funded national and international research projects and has been coordinating the national research program ‘Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs)’ since 2011. She has published widely on empirical educational research in higher education. She is a fellow of the Gutenberg Research College, and member of the International Academy of Education.

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