IARU Presidents

Each IARU partner is represented by the head of the institution. Presidents meet annually to discuss specific topics of interest related to the higher education trends.

IARU Chairman

The IARU Chair is elected from among the IARU Presidents for a period of 2 years.  The Chair of IARU is Professor Carol Christ, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.  

Past IARU Chairpersons: Professor Ralf Hemmingsen, 2015 - 2016 (University of Copenhagen), Professor Ralph Eichler, 2013 - 2014 (ETH Zurich); Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, 2009 - 2012 (National University of Singapore); Professor Ian Chubb, 2005 - 2008 (Australian National University).

IARU Presidents

  • AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYProf. Brian Schmidt AC, President
  • ETH ZURICH Prof. Dr. Lino Guzzella, President
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Prof. Tan Eng Chye, President
  • PEKING UNIVERSITYProf. LIN Jianhua, President
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Prof. Carol Christ, Chancellor
  • UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGEProf. Stephen J. Toope, Vice-Chancellor
  • UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN Dr. Max Price, Vice-Chancellor
  • UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGENProf. Dr. Henrik Caspar Wegener, Rector
  • UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Prof. Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYODr. Makoto Gonokami, President
  • YALE UNIVERSITY Prof. Peter Salovey, President

  • AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

    Prof. Brian Schmidt AC, President

    Professor Schmidt is the 12th Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University (ANU). Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor Schmidt was an astrophysicist at the ANU Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics before becoming Vice-Chancellor.

    Professor Schmidt received undergraduate degrees in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Arizona in 1989, and completed his Astronomy Master's degree (1992) and PhD (1993) from Harvard University. Under his leadership, in 1998, the High-Z Supernova Search team made the startling discovery that the expansion rate of the Universe is accelerating. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, The United States Academy of Science, and the Royal Society, he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2013.

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  • ETH ZURICH

    Prof. Dr. Lino Guzzella, President

    Lino Guzzella has been full professor of thermotronics since 1999 and, in addition, from August 2012 to December 2014 Rector of ETH Zurich. Since January 2015 he is President of ETH Zurich.

    He was born on October 13, 1957 in Zurich. After receiving his mechanical engineering diploma in 1981 and his doctoral degree in 1986 from ETH, he held several positions in industry (R&D team leader, Sulzer Brothers, Winterthur; R&D mechatronics department head, Hilti, Schaan) and academia (assistant and associate professor in the electrical engineering and mechanical engineering department at ETH; Honda Visiting Professor at The Ohio State University).

    With his group he focuses in research on novel approaches in system dynamics and control of energy conversion systems. Control-oriented systems modeling, dynamic optimization and feedback control design methods are the main area of research. A particular emphasis is placed on the minimization of fuel consumption and pollutant emission of land vehicle propulsion systems. Among others he received the IEEE-MSC - Industry Award for Excellence in Translational Control Research, IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, the SAE Arch T. Colwell Merit Award and the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, the IMechE Thomas Hawksley Medal and Crompton Lancaster Medal, the Energy Globe Award and the Golden Owl 2011 for Excellence in Teaching.

    Prof. Guzzella has published more than 100 research articles in peer refereed journals and conferences as well as two research textbooks (Introduction to Modeling and Control of IC Engine Systems, Springer Verlag, 2nd. Ed. 2010 and Vehicle Propulsion Systems - Modeling and Optimization, Springer Verlag, 3rd Ed. 2013). He has been a keynote speaker at many conferences worldwide.

    Prof. Guzzella is a fellow of IFAC and a fellow of IEEE and a member of the Swiss academy of engineering sciences (SATW). Prof. Guzzella is member of several international and national research committees, e.g. the Swiss CTI Committee on Engineering Sciences and was for many years member of the board of governors of IFAC.

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  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

    Prof. Tan Eng Chye, President

    Professor Tan Eng Chye is the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) 5th President and he will be the 23rd leader to head Singapore’s oldest higher education institution, which traces its roots to a modest medical school founded in 1905.

    Prof Tan obtained his Bachelor in Mathematics at NUS and his PhD at Yale University. He joined NUS as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics in 1985. Prof Tan's research interests are in the Representation Theory of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, and Invariant Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics.

    Prof Tan was a pioneer architect of the current academic system in NUS, and has seeded many initiatives such as the Special Programme in Science, University Scholars Programme, University Town Residential College Programme, Grade-free Scheme, Technology-enhanced Education, etc.

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  • PEKING UNIVERSITY

    Prof. LIN Jianhua, President

    LIN Jianhua is President of Peking University and Professor of Chemistry. His presidential term began in February 2015.

    Prior to becoming President of Peking University, Professor Lin served as President of Chongqing University from December 2010 to June 2013, and President Zhejiang University from 2013 to 2015. Other leadership roles have included: Dean of the College of Chemistry, Executive Vice President and Provost at Peking University from 1998 to 2010.

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

    Prof. Carol Christ, Chancellor

    Carol Tecla Christ began her term as the 11th chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley on July 1, 2017. A celebrated scholar of Victorian literature, Christ is also well known as an advocate for quality, accessible public higher education, a proponent of the value of a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences, and a champion of women’s issues and diversity on college campuses.

    Christ spent more than three decades as a professor and administrator at UC Berkeley before serving as president of Smith College, one of the country’s most distinguished liberal arts colleges, from 2002 to 2013. She returned to Berkeley in January 2015 to direct the campus’s Center for Studies in Higher Education, and was appointed interim executive vice chancellor and provost in April 2016 before being named chancellor in March 2017. Since returning to Berkeley, Christ has played an instrumental role in efforts to stabilize the institution’s budget, confront sexual violence and sexual harassment on campus, create a long-term plan for housing students and scholars, and more.

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  • UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

    Prof. Stephen J. Toope, Vice-Chancellor

    Professor Stephen J. Toope OC, LL.D. was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1st October 2017. He was previously Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and President and Vice-Chancellor, the University of British Columbia. A former President of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and Dean of Law, McGill University, Professor Toope also served as Law Clerk to the Rt. Hon. Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada. He served as Chair of the Board of Universities Canada, President of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and as Director of the Public Policy Forum, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Royal Conservatory of Music.

    Toope publishes in leading international journals on international dispute resolution, international environmental law, human rights, the use of force, and international legal theory, and has lectured at leading universities around the globe. His current book project with Professor Jutta Brunnée explores mechanisms and processes fostering stability and change in international law.

    Toope also served as Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, and as Fact-Finder for the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Government Officials in relation to Maher Arar.

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  • UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

    Dr. Max Price, Vice-Chancellor

    Dr Max Price took up the post of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town in July 2008. Before that he was Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He has degrees from the universities of the Witwatersrand (Medicine), Oxford (BA), and London (Public Health).

    From 1996 to 2006, as Dean at Wits, he spearheaded the introduction of a new medical curriculum, led the transformation of the faculty, initiated a variety of courses and programmes and established the first university-owned private teaching hospital and also a major clinical research company.

    After obtaining his medical degree from Wits, Dr Price was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. Following clinical work in academic and rural hospitals in SA, he took a master’s degree at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, continuing there as a Research Fellow in Health Economics. He joined the Centre for Health Policy at Wits in 1988 as a Senior Researcher, and become its Director in 1992.

    Dr Price’s research has covered the political economy of health in South Africa, health economics, rural health services, health systems research and health science education. He served on the Medical and Dental Professions Board from 2000-2010, chairing the committee responsible for accreditation of medical programmes in South Africa.

    He is an Honorary Fellow of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa in recognition of his leadership role in public health medicine and medical education.

    Dr Price is currently Chair of Worldwide Universities Network, Chair of the African Research Universities Alliance, and Vice-Chair of Universities South Africa.

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  • UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

    Prof. Dr. Henrik Caspar Wegener, Rector

    Henrik C. Wegener had been rector at the University of Copenhagen since March 2017. He is an expert on food safety, zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance and emerging infectious diseases. He has served as advisor to national and international authorities and governments, international organizations and private companies, and universities and research foundations, and he has served, and is presently serving, on several national and international committees and boards on food safety, veterinary public health, and research policy. Most recently Professor Wegener was appointed Chair of the High Level Group of the EC Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM).

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  • UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

    Prof. Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor

    Professor Louise Richardson is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and also serves on the boards of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and of several other charities.

    Previously she served as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews and spent 20 years on the faculty of the Harvard Government Department, latterly as Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

    She is a global authority on terrorism, whose path-breaking work, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, precipitated a seismic shift in approaches to the study and tackling of terrorism.

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  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO

    Dr. Makoto Gonokami, President

    Dr. Makoto Gonokami became the 30th President of the University of Tokyo on April 1st, 2015, with a six-year term. Dr. Gonokami was previously the Dean of the School of Science. He became a full professor in 1998 having joined UTokyo as an academic staff in 1983.

    He is a council member of the Science Council of Japan, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012) and Optical Society of America (2013). Dr. Gonokami is well-known in the field of photon science, and has established world-leading photon research centers in the School of Science and School of Engineering.

  • YALE UNIVERSITY

    Prof. Peter Salovey, President

    Peter Salovey is the 23rd president of Yale University and the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology. He began his tenure in July 2013. After receiving an A.B. (psychology) and A.M. (sociology) from Stanford University in 1980 with departmental honors and university distinction, Salovey earned three degrees at Yale in psychology: an M.S. (1983), M.Phil. (1984), and Ph.D. (1986). He holds secondary faculty appointments in the Schools of Management and Public Health, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and the Sociology Department.

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