CHAIR
Elizabeth King
Director of Education, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. King is Director of Education in the Human Development Network
of the World Bank. She is the World Bank's senior spokesperson for
global policy and strategic education issues in developing
countries. Until January 2009, she was a manager in the World Bank's
research department, heading the team that focuses on human
development issues. She has published on topics such as household
investments in human capital; the linkages between education,
poverty and economic development; gender issues in development,
especially women's education; education finance, and the impact of
decentralization reforms. Since joining the World Bank, she has
contributed to public expenditure reviews, country economic
assessments, policy analyses of the human development sectors, and
impact evaluations of policies and programs. She was the Lead
Economist for the World Bank's human development department for East
Asian countries for three years, and served as co-author of three
World Development Reports.
AUTHOR
Jamil Salmi
Tertiary Education Coordinator, Human Development Network, World
Bank
Mr. Salmi, a Moroccan education economist, is the coordinator of the
World Bank's tertiary education program. He is the author of
Establishing World Class Universities and the principal author of
the Tertiary Education Strategy entitled, Constructing Knowledge
Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education. In the past
fifteen years, he has provided policy and technical advice on
tertiary education reform to the governments of over 35 countries
around the world. Mr. Salmi has also guided the strategic planning
efforts of several public and private universities in Colombia,
Kenya, Mexico, and Peru. Before moving to the Human Development
Vice-Presidency in July 2001, Mr. Salmi worked for 7 years in the
World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean region (as Education Sector
Manager during the last two years in LAC); in the Education and
Social Policy Department of the World Bank (1990-1993) and also
prepared the World Bank's first Policy Paper on Higher Education
(1994). Prior to joining the World Bank, he was a professor of
education economics at the National Institute of Education Planning
in Rabar, Morocco. Mr. Salmi is the author of five books and
numerous articles on education and development issues.
DISCUSSANTS
Richard Miller
President, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Mr. Miller was appointed President and first employee of the
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering on February 1, 1999, where
he also holds an appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Before joining Olin College, he served as Dean of Engineering at the
University of Iowa from 1992-99. He spent the previous 17 years on
the engineering faculties at the University of Southern California
and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr. Miller has
authored about 100 technical publications in the field of applied
mechanics, and has won five awards for teaching excellence. He is a
member of the governance boards for two independent colleges and one
engineering services corporation, and serves on several advisory
boards for non-profit organizations and universities. He is a member
of the Visiting Committee for the School for Engineering and Applied
Sciences of Harvard University, and the Higher Education Working
Group of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He serves as
a consultant to the World Bank in education and recently chaired the
Association of Independent Technological Universities.
Philip Altbach
Professor of Higher Education & Director of the Center for
International Higher Education, Boston College
Mr. Altbach is the Director of the Center for International Higher
Education and the J. Donald Monan, SJ professor of higher education
in the Lynch School of Education. He has extensive experience in the
field of comparative and international higher education. He is
editor of The International Academic Profession (1997: Carnegie),
co-editor of American Higher Education in the 21st Century (1997:
Johns Hopkins, revised edition in press), former editor of the ASHE
journal, The Review of Higher Education, and the editor of
International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia, (2 volumes). He is
author of Comparative Higher Education, Higher Education in the
Third World, and other books. His most recent book is Asian
Universities: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). He co-edited In Defense of
American Higher Education. with Patricia Gumport and Bruce
Johnstone, published in 2001. His research interests include
comparative education, history and philosophy of higher education,
international education, student political activism, the academic
profession, and knowledge networks.
About the publication
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important
contribution that high performance, world-class universities make to
global competitiveness and economic growth. There is growing
recognition, in both industrial and developing countries, of the
need to establish one or more world-class universities that can
compete effectively with the best of the best around the world.
Contextualizing the drive for world-class higher education
institutions and the power of international and domestic university
ranking, this book outlines possible strategies and pathways for
establishing globally competitive universities and explores the
challenges, costs, and risks involved. Its findings will be of
particular interest to policy makers, university leaders,
researchers, and development practitioners. For additional
information and access to the publication, please click here.
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