Rajani Naidoo is Vice-President (Community & Inclusion) and Professor in Higher Education Management at the University of Bath (UK). Over the course of her career, Rajani has held a range of faculty and management positions, both in the UK and in her native South Africa. Rajani is featured in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2 per cent most highly cited scholars in her field. Her research is interdisciplinary and multi-level, focusing on the influence of global, national, and organisational forces on research, teaching, and the wider role of the university in society.

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Higher Education. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, higher education in East Asia, the public and social contributions of higher education, and higher education and social equality. His scholarship is widely published and cited and includes seminal works in the field, such as Higher Education and the Common Good (Melbourne University Publishing, 2016) and High Participation Systems of Higher Education, edited with Brendan Cantwell and Anna Smolentseva (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Ly Tran is a Professor in the School of Education, Deakin University, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. Ly's prolific scholarship focuses on international student experiences, the teaching and engagement of international students, inbound and outbound student mobility, the New Colombo Plan, and education in Vietnam.

Sioux McKenna is the Director of the Graduate Studies Center and Professor of Higher Education at Rhodes University (South Africa). Sioux began her career with an interest in the particular literacy practices expected of students for success in different disciplines and the concern that these are not made readily accessible to all. From there she has become increasingly interested in the nature of knowledge itself - what forms of knowledge are legitimated in the academy and which are not, and which kinds of knowers are valued and which are not. She argues that significant reflection is needed as to what higher education is for (and whom it serves), in order for the university to be a space of social justice. Sioux has managed a number of large international projects funded by the Dutch Government, the South African Government, and the EU. These have allowed her to work with colleagues around the world to try to make sense of how we structure and fund our university systems and what it is that we value within such systems.

Anthony L. Pinder serves as the inaugural Vice Provost for Internationalization & Equity at Emerson College in Boston, MA (USA). In his role as Emerson’s chief international officer (CIO), Dr. Pinder is responsible for managing and building on all of the College’s global operations, notably the Emerson European Center at Kasteel Well, The Netherlands. In addition, Dr. Pinder provides leadership to the offices of International Student Affairs (OISA) and Education Abroad & Domestic Programs, as well as English Language Learning (ELL), and initiatives that support international fellowships/awards, international visitors/scholars and international faculty support services.  Dr. Pinder established Emerson’s nationally recognized Global Pathways Program, which features nearly 30 faculty-led education abroad programs around the world, and leads the College’s faculty development program, Curriculum Internationalization & Inclusive Pedagogy Studio. Under his leadership, Emerson won the prestigious 2020 Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization, awarded by NAFSA. Prior to Emerson, Dr. Pinder served as CIO and Assistant Professor of Education at Georgia Gwinnett College, Morehouse College and Dillard University; as the Director for Minority & National Recruitment Initiatives with the U.S. Peace Corps (Washington, DC); as Peace Corps Country Director in Equatorial Guinea; and as a Small Enterprise Developer in Ecuador. In addition, Dr. Pinder held senior administrative appointments with the United Negro College Fund (Major Gifts Officer); The African American Institute (Sr. Program Officer); and Futures Trader with the grain-trading conglomerate, Cargill, Inc. in Kansas City, MO.