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 Prof. Mamokgethi Phakeng, 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

    Prof. Mamokgethi Phakeng, Vice-Chancellor

    Professor Phakeng, a B1 rated scientist, is a recognisable name in higher education in South Africa. She obtained her junior degree, majoring in pure mathematics, at the then University of Bophuthatswana (now North-West University) in Mmabatho in 1987, obtaining a solid 74% for her final-year pure mathematics module. She completed all her postgraduate studies, which ended with a PhD in 2002, at Wits University where she also served for five years as President of Convocation (2011-2016).

    Her first job was in 1988 as a mathematics lecturer at Hebron College of Education. Over the years she served as principal, teacher, and mathematics subject advisor before venturing into the nongovernmental sector for five years, running mathematics development programmes for teachers and learners in township and farm schools in West Rand. She also ran empowerment programmes for women in the rural villages of Matamanyane and Lenyenye in Limpopo.

    Professor Phakeng’s academic career started at Wits, where she first served as a research assistant in 1996 and later left in December 2007 as an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education as well as Founding Director of the award-winning Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education. In January 2008 she took up the position of Executive Dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) at the University of South Africa8. She had a very successful tenure as Dean of CSET at UNISA and was promoted to serve as Vice-Principal of the newly established portfolio of Research and Innovation on 1 July 2011. When her five-year term ended in June 2016, she joined UCT as DVC for Research and Internationalisation.

    As a highly regarded scholar, Professor Phakeng has been invited to deliver over 40 keynote lectures at international conferences and as visiting professor at universities around the world. Her commitment to academia and research extends beyond her own advancement. In 2016 she was appointed by the then Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa, as chairperson of the Human Resource Development Council of South Africa standing committee on Mathematics and Science.

    Professor Phakeng is a member of a number of boards, including the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls; the Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Rights Organisation; and the South African Student Solidarity Foundation for Education. She is also a trustee of the FirstRand Foundation. She has chaired the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) Research, Development and Innovation Committee (until September 2017), and served as National President of the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa from 2002 to 2006. Her other previous roles include chairperson of the Board of the South African Mathematics Foundation from 2005 to 2006; secretary and member of the executive committee of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education from 2003 to 2007 and the CSIR from 2015 to 2017.

    Professor Phakeng is also the founder of the Adopt-a-learner Foundation, a non-profit organisation that started in 2004 and provides financial and educational support to students from township and rural areas to acquire higher education qualifications.

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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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