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Leaders In International Higher Education
2011 Annual Conference Speakers
AIEA is pleased to announce the following keynote speakers at the 2011 AIEA Conference:
Eva Egron-Polak
Secretary-General, International Association of Universities
Eva Egron-Polak is Secretary-General of the
International Association of Universities (IAU), based at UNESCO in Paris,
France
She has had extensive experience in international cooperation in higher
education having served for more than 15 year in various senior positions at
the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), including Vice-President,
International.
As Secretary General of IAU, she is engaged with some of
the most pressing policy issues in higher education – internationalization of
higher education and intercultural learning, quality of cross-border higher
education, access to and success in higher education, changing nature of
institutional autonomy and the contribution of higher education to sustainable
development among others.
Since her arrival at IAU, she has focused on expanding the Association’s convening role, consolidating the Association’s clearing house of information capacities and launched a number of projects, including a systematic and regular global survey of trends in internationalization.
She was educated in the Czech Republic, Canada and France. Having studied French Literature, Political Science and International Political Economy, her post-graduate research focused on higher education policy and particularly on early (mid-1980s) policy making in this field by the European Union.
Linda Katehi
Chancellor, University of California - Davis
Linda Katehi became the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Davis, on August 17, 2009. As chief executive officer, she oversees all aspects of the university’s teaching, research and public service mission.
Chancellor Katehi also holds UC Davis faculty appointments in electrical and
computer engineering and in women and gender studies.
A member of the National
Academy of Engineering, she chaired until 2010 the President’s Committee for
the National Medal of Science and the Secretary of Commerce’s committee for the
National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
She is a fellow and board member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of many other national boards and committees.
Her work in electronic circuit design has led to numerous national and
international awards both as a technical leader and educator, 16 U.S. patents,
and an additional six U.S. patent applications.
She is the author or co-author of 10 book chapters and about 600 refereed publications in journals and symposia proceedings.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1977, and her master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from UCLA in 1981 and 1984, respectively.
Keisha Senter
Director, Clinton Global Initiative University
Keisha Senter is the Director of CGI U, President Bill Clinton’s initiative to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses around the world. To date, CGI U has catalyzed over 3,000 Commitments to Action within its five focus areas: Education, Environment and Climate Change, Peace and Human Rights, Poverty Alleviation, and Public Health.
Prior to joining CGI, Senter was the deputy director of Campus Progress, the youth organizing arm of the Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington, D.C. At CAP, she built and managed a progressive speaker’s bureau that organized over 400 events on campuses and in communities nationwide. Under her leadership, Campus Progress delivered to students top speakers; offered debates on issues from Iraq to the economy; held a groundbreaking series of discussions on hip-hop and politics; featured a diverse series of films and filmmakers; and provided training programs on media and organizing work.
Senter also built partnerships for events and issue campaigns with a range of organizations, from Americans for Informed Democracy to HBO and PBS. Before joining CAP, Senter worked as an Outreach and Constituent Liaison for United States Senator Charles E. Schumer in his New York office and as a field organizer for his 2004 re-election campaign.
She is the recipient of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities 2007 Young Leaders in the Spotlight award. Senter is a graduate of Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University and obtained her master’s in international relations from Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland.
Vivek Wadhwa
Senior Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
Executive-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
Vivek
Wadhwa is a senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at
Harvard Law School and an executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt
School of Engineering at Duke University.
He is also an advisor to several
start-up companies, a columnist for BusinessWeek.com and a contributor to
several international publications.
His research has been supported by several grants from the Kauffman
Foundation and by the Sloan Foundation.
Wadhwa has spoken at dozens of
conferences including the National Governors Association and the National
Academy of Sciences.
Mr.
Wadhwa holds an MBA from New York University and a B.A. in Computing Studies
from the Canberra University in Australia.
He is founding president of the
Carolinas chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TIE), a non-profit global network
intended to foster entrepreneurship.
He has been featured in thousands of articles in worldwide publications including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Washington Post, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report and Science Magazine. He has also made many appearances on U.S. and international TV stations including CNN, ABC, NBC, CNBC and the BBC.