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Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works.

Anant won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, which recognized his work in advancing the MOOC movement. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Padma Shri award from the President of India. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, and is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits."

Scientific American selected his work on organic computing as one of 10 World- Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named in Forbes' list of top 15 education innovators in 2012. Anant, a pioneer in computer architecture, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM.

He hacks on WebSim, an online circuits laboratory, in his spare time. Anant holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras. Anant's twitter handle is @agarwaledu.

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Adam Medros is President and Chief Operating Officer at edX, overseeing the day-to-day management and oversight of edX’s operations, contributing to edX’s strategy and growth. Adam brings extensive operational expertise to power our innovation and growth at a global scale. He will lead the effort of taking our current success to the next level; transforming education in the learner, university, and business setting.

Prior to joining edX, Adam was Senior Vice President, Global Product at TripAdvisor, Inc. where over 13 years he helped grow TripAdvisor into a global, public company with 400 million monthly users across 49 points of sale and 28 languages, 500 million reviews and opinions, and over $1.5 billion in annual revenue. At TripAdvisor, Adam was a member of the executive management team, led worldwide product development including core functionality, content operations, mobile, and revenue optimization. He was most recently the leader for the hotel vertical, TripAdvisor’s largest business unit.

Prior to joining TripAdvisor, Adam held Senior Analyst and Product Manager positions at Nordstrom.com, Amazon.com, and The Parthenon Group. He serves on the Board of Directors of Wordstream and was previously Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX). Adam holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in Economics and German with Honors from Dartmouth College.

","weight":-19},{"type":"Leadership","name":"Mark Haseltine","filename":"mark-131x141.jpg","position":"Chief Product Officer","description":"As Chief Product Officer at edX, Mark leads our overall product strategy and engineering efforts. Prior to joining edX, Mark was CTO, Afternic at GoDaddy where he led the development of their domain aftermarket products. He served as CTO at NameMedia which GoDaddy partially acquired. He has also held engineering leadership roles at Oracle, AltaVista and Gerson Lehrman Group. He has led engineering for large-scale online business in each of these roles, and plans to apply the same creative approaches to the challenges at edX. Mark holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Mark spends most of his free time with his family and occasionally running marathons. ","weight":-18},{"type":"Leadership","name":"Johannes Heinlein","filename":"jh_portrait_131x141.jpg","position":"Vice President of Strategic Partnerships","description":"

Johannes Heinlein is vice president of strategic partnerships for edX, leading university partnership and collaboration initiatives. In this role, Johannes works directly with the edX president and board on identifying and executing strategy. Prior to joining edX, Johannes served as director in the Office of the President and Provost of Harvard University where he was responsible for the planning and execution of university-wide transformations in strategy and operations. Prior to joining Harvard, Johannes worked in the public sector and for global industry leaders, to develop and implement change management and program strategies. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia and North America. Johannes holds degrees from the University of Hamburg, Germany, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Johannes is married with two children and calls Boston his home.

","weight":-17},{"type":"Leadership","name":"Nina Huntemann","filename":"ninahuntemann131x141.jpg","position":"Director of Academics and Research","description":"Nina Huntemann is director of academics and research at edX. In this role, Nina is leading cross institution faculty initiatives, developing curriculum strategies and providing pedagogical expertise, managing educational policy projects, and facilitating research across edX university partners. Nina has over 15 years of college-level teaching, program administration, and faculty development experience. Prior to joining edX, she was an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University in Boston where she taught courses and published research in digital media studies. Nina received her Ph.D. in communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also co-director of Women in Games Boston, a professional network for women working in the digital games industry. Outside of work, Nina enjoys cycling, baking, and hiking with her Welsh terrier, Penny.","weight":-16},{"type":"Leadership","name":"Nell Ma'luf","filename":"nell_maluf.jpg","position":"Vice President and General Counsel","description":"Nell Ma'luf is Vice President and General Counsel of edX, overseeing all legal and regulatory matters and providing strategic counsel on business development and partnerships with higher education institutions and corporations. Prior to edX, Nell served in senior legal roles at Analysis Group, Inc. and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc., where she gained broad experience advising leadership teams on strategic initiatives, transactional matters, intellectual property, compliance and risk management. Her practice started at Mintz Levin in Boston, after which she clerked for the Honorable Rya W. Zobel in the US District Court, District of Massachusetts. Nell holds an A.B. in Statistics from Harvard College and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.","weight":-14},{"type":"Leadership","name":"Kathy Pugh","filename":"kathy_pugh_131x141.jpg","position":"Vice President of Education Services","description":"

As vice president of education services at edX, Kathy directs and oversees the management of the course development teams and is responsible for university relations with edX consortium members. She brings extensive experience as a top executive in the software and financial services industries. Most recently in charge of global services at Courion Corporation, Kathy has a nationally recognized track record of success in expanding and streamlining businesses. She has worked in long-established businesses as well as start-ups, and brings her valued business acumen and organizational talents to edX. When she is not at edX, Kathy enjoys tennis, swimming, rowing, cycling, and watching her son play hockey. She holds a B.A. in economics from the College of the Holy Cross.

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Lee Rubenstein serves as our edX VP of Business Development. He leads our engagements with prospects and partners including Foundations, NGO’s, Corporations, and Governments both local and international. Lee has been building, running, and advising global businesses in the learning, communications, and media space for 20+ years. Most recently he served 5 years as President and COO of TBA Global, and as an advisor to several companies in the online entertainment space. Lee’s career has been focused on incorporating innovative technology and strategy to assist high profile brands improve their business results through education, communications, strategy and media. Lee was part of the first executive team to take an ‘experiential’ communications corporation public and then went on to establish, build, and lead various global communication and learning companies in the US and Europe for agency holding companies. Lee was also part of the executive team that recast TrainingNet into THINQ Learning solutions, an LMS company later sold to Saba. Lee is a graduate of Boston University, and serves on the Board of Governors of Tufts Medical Center, and the Corporate Advisory Council of Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

","weight":-10},{"type":"Leadership","name":"Risa Sparks","filename":"risa_sparks_131x141.jpg","position":"Senior Director of Finance","description":"Risa is the senior director of finance, leading the company’s accounting and financial strategy. Prior to joining edX, Risa spent eleven years in the renewables, oil, and gas industries in a variety of finance and strategy positions where she led strategic initiatives, managed finance and accounting teams, and directed portfolio and asset management. She started her work career as an engineer in the semiconductor industry, and has lived and worked in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Kazakhstan. Risa holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a M.B.A. and Masters in Engineering Management from Northwestern University. Outside of work, Risa can be found building structures with her two children, hiking, or learning how to cook.","weight":-9}],"boardOfDirectors":[{"type":"Board","name":"Alan M. Garber, co-chair","filename":"alan-m-garber-131s141.jpg","position":"Provost, Harvard University","description":"Alan M. Garber, M.D., Ph.D., is an edX board co-chair, Provost of Harvard University and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Harvard School of Public Health. Before becoming the Provost at Harvard, he was a professor of medicine and of economics at Stanford University, where he taught at the medical and business schools and directed the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research.","weight":4},{"type":"Board","name":"Martin A. Schmidt, co-chair","filename":"martin-a-schmidt-131x141.jpg","position":"Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology","description":"Martin A. Schmidt, S.M., Ph.D., is an edX board co-chair and Provost of MIT. A member of the MIT faculty since 1988, Provost Schmidt has been a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. From 1999 to 2006, he served as the Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT, and Associate Provost from 2008 to 2013. His teaching and research is in the areas of micro and nanofabrication of sensors, actuators and electronic devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), design of micromechanical sensors and actuators, and micro/nanofabrication technology. He is the co-author of more than 80 journal publications and 120 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He is also an inventor on more than 30 issued U.S. patents.","weight":5},{"type":"Board","name":"Anant Agarwal","filename":"anant-agarwal.jpg","position":"CEO, edX and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology","description":"

Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works. Anant won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. Scientific American selected his work on organic computing as one of 10 World- Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named in Forbes' list of top 15 education innovators in 2012. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, which recognized his work in advancing the MOOC movement. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Padma Shri award from the President of India. Anant holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras. Anant's twitter handle is @agarwaledu.

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Jeff is a general partner at Flybridge, a venture capital firm in Boston and NYC, and leads the firm's edtech practice, including investments in codecademy, Next University, Open English and Valore. He also serves as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School (HBS) and teaches a class on entrepreneurship. In this capacity, he has co-authored twelve HBS cases and notes as well as a book, Mastering the VC Game, an insider’s guide to financing and company-building. Prior to Flybridge, Jeff was an entrepreneur, co-founding Upromise (a college savings loyalty program) and serving as an executive at Open Market. Prior to Open Market, Jeff was with the strategy consulting firm, BCG.

Jeff also serves as co-chairman of the board of educational non-profit, Facing History and Ourselves, and co-founder and chair of the progressive policy organization, The Alliance for Business Leadership. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Harvard University and an MBA from HBS.

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Ms. Lapp oversees all aspects of the University’s financial, administrative, human resources, campus services, planning and project management, development in Allston, health services, information technology and diversity functions. Prior to this appointment, she served as Executive Vice President for Business Operations for the University of California; as Executive Director and CEO for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority; and as a distinguished attorney serving as New York State Director of Criminal Justice and Commissioner of the Criminal Justice Services Department and previously as New York City’s Criminal Justice Director. She received her B.A. in history from Fairfield University and her Law Degree from Hofstra University.

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Israel Ruiz is the Executive Vice President and Treasurer of MIT, and as such, he is the Institute’s chief fiduciary officer and is responsible for leading all of the administrative and financial functions at the Institute. After earning a master’s degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Mr. Ruiz joined MIT just as MIT launched the pilot version of OpenCourseWare (OCW), publishing 50 courses online. As Vice President for Finance and co-chair of the Institute-wide Planning Task Force, he was instrumental in launching a group to further evaluate e-learning opportunities in 2010. The group envisioned a scalable educational platform for online educational offerings, leading to the launch of MITx in 2011 and edX in 2012. He is deeply committed to broadening access to education through online opportunities and to extending the MIT educational experience to more learners worldwide.

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Sanjay Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the first Director of Digital Learning at MIT. Before that he was Director of MIT’s collaboration with Singapore which lead to the establishment of the Singapore University of Design and Technology. Dr. Sarma co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide. He was also the the founder and CTO of OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems in 2008. He serves on the boards of several companies, including GS1US, Senaya, and ESSESS. Dr. Sarma received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored over 75 academic papers in computational geometry, sensing, RFID, automation and CAD, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research. He advises several national governments and global companies.

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Michael D. Smith, Ph.D., is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Smith leads Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences with a deep commitment to undergraduate teaching, to strengthening the faculty, and to research. A member of the Faculty since 1992, Smith is known for his innovative work on computing systems, particularly on issues involving a detailed knowledge of both the hardware and software in these sophisticated systems. Smith’s research interests include dynamic optimization, machine-specific and profile-driven compilation, high-performance computer architecture, and practical applications of security. He is also a leading figure in a range of interdisciplinary activities that explore the interplay of technology with other fields, from the life sciences to economics to philosophy to law.

","weight":11},{"type":"Board","name":"Alan Spoon","filename":"alan-spoon-131x141.png","position":"Partner, Polaris Partners, LLC","description":"

Since 2000, Alan has been a Partner at Polaris Partners, LLC (Managing General Partner 2000-2010), a diversified national venture capital firm with investments in information technology and life science enterprises. Previously, Alan was President of The Washington Post Company (Kaplan Education, The Washington Post, Newsweek, CableOne, and PostNewsweek Television). He was a member of the Post Company Board of Directors from 1991 to 2000. Alan has served on many for-profit boards including, IAC, Inc., Danaher Corporation, Getty Images and Human Genome Sciences. In his not-for-profit activities, Alan is a member of the MIT Corporation, and Regent Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution. Alan received S.B. and S.M. degrees in 1973 from MIT and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976.

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Currently Malte Brettel is also serving as a Vice-Rector for Industry Relations at RWTH Aachen University.","weight":-9},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"Robert L. Caret ","filename":"bobcaret-131x141.jpg","position":"Chancellor, The University System of Maryland","description":"

Dr. Robert L. Caret assumed the Chancellorship of the University System of Maryland (USM) on July 1, 2015. Prior to that, he served as President of the 5-campus University of Massachusetts system since January 2011. Dr. Caret served as President of Towson University (2003-2011) and San Jose State University (1995-2003), successfully presiding over periods of significant growth at both universities. Prior to his presidencies, he served as a faculty member, dean, executive vice president, and provost at Towson. As president of the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Caret established himself as a spokesperson on the pressing issues of college affordability and student debt, calling for Massachusetts and states across the nation to rededicate themselves to their public universities. In addition, he served on the boards of several organizations, including the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the Governor's STEM Advisory Council, and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. Nationally, Caret serves on the American Council on Education and National Association of System Heads boards. He also is a member of the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board and the Government University Industry Research Roundtable. Caret holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of New Hampshire and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Suffolk University in Boston.

","weight":-8},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"Alan M. Garber","filename":"alan-m-garber-131s141.jpg","position":"Provost, Harvard University","description":"Alan M. Garber, M.D., Ph.D., is Provost of Harvard University and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Harvard School of Public Health. Before becoming the Provost at Harvard, he was a professor of medicine and of economics at Stanford University, where he taught at the medical and business schools and directed the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research.","weight":-7},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"Robert M. Groves","filename":"robert-m-groves-131x141.jpg","position":"Provost, Georgetown University","description":"Robert M. Groves is a social statistician who studies the impact of social cognitive and behavioral influences on the quality of statistical information. Prior to joining Georgetown as provost he was director of the US Census Bureau (presidential appointment with Senate confirmation), a position he assumed after being director of the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, professor of sociology, and research professor at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, elected member of the International Statistical Institute, elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies.","weight":-6},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"Marnie Hughes-Warrington","filename":"marnie-131x141.jpg","position":"Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Australian National University","description":"Marnie Hughes-Warrington has strategic and operational oversight of academic affairs at ANU, ranging from education philanthropy, elearning, programs and student residential accommodation. Trained in the fields of philosophy, history and education at the University of Tasmania and Oxford University, she has been awarded $18M AUD in grants and is writing her seventh book. In 2008 she was recognised as Australian University Teacher of the Year. She is Chair of the Australian Government’s Office for Learning and Teaching grants panel, Chair of the Tuckwell Scholarships Board, and National Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships Australia.","weight":-4},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"Barthelemy Jobert","filename":"barthelemy-jobert-131x141.jpg","position":"President, Université Paris-Sorbonne","description":"Barthelemy Jobert, M.A., Ph.D., is an art history Professor at Paris-Sorbonne and its president since 2012. He was Vice President of its Scientific Advisory Board from 2008 to 2012, and since spring 2010, he had served as Professor in charge of Research Policy within the framework of Sorbonne Universités. He is also the Vice-President of the Committe of French Research Universities. He specializes in the art of 19th century Europe and has curated exhibitions in various institutions in France and abroad, including the Louvre Museum, National Library of France, Museum of Grenoble and more. He serves as a board member on the International University Campus in Paris, the French House in Oxford Committee, the French Center of the University of Saarbrücken and holds additional board and jury appointments as well.
","weight":-3},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"Catherine P. Koshland","filename":"cpkoshland_131x141.jpg","position":"Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Wood-Calvert Professor in Engineering","description":"Catherine P. Koshland is the Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Wood-Calvert Professor in Engineering. She is a professor in the School of Public Health and in the Energy and Resources Group. She served as Board Chair or Co-Chair on the Haverford College Board of Managers from 2007-2014. At Berkeley, she has operational oversight of several units that support student academic development, and faculty work including Berkeley’s efforts in technology enhanced instruction, and the development of on-line and blended instruction. She serves as convener for the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Initiative and currently chairs, co-chairs, or serves in a member role on several university committees aimed at improving core areas of the undergraduate academic experience. As a STEM researcher and educator, she was founding member of the International Congress on Toxic Combustion Byproducts, served as Associate Director of the UC Berkeley National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) Superfund Basic Research Program (1997-2015) and served on the Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute.","weight":-2},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"William McRaven","filename":"william-mcraven-131x141.png","position":"Chancellor, The University of Texas System","description":"Bill McRaven, who recently retired as a four-star admiral after 37 years as a Navy SEAL, became Chancellor of The University of Texas System in January 2015. Recognized as a national authority on U.S. foreign policy, he has advised the president, secretary of defense, and other U.S. leaders on defense issues. He served as primary author of the President’s first National Strategy for Combatting Terrorism and also drafted the National Security Presidential Directive-12 (U.S. Hostage Policy) and the counter-terrorism policy for President George W. Bush’s National Security Strategy. In 2011, McRaven was the first runner-up for Time magazine’s Person of the Year and was named Texan of the Year by the Dallas Morning News. During his military career, McRaven worked extensively with leaders on Capitol Hill to shape policy issues regarding educational initiatives, health and welfare of special operations families and operational employment of U.S. Special Operations Forces around the world. McRaven graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1977 with a degree in journalism and received his master’s degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey in 1991. In 2012, the Texas Exes honored McRaven with a Distinguished Alumnus Award.","weight":-1},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"Jean Morrison","filename":"morrison-131x141.jpg","position":"University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Boston University","description":"Jean Morrison, M.S., Ph.D., is University Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Boston University. She provides leadership for the University’s overall academic, budgetary and planning processes and oversight of its academic programs, research, global programs, enrollment and student affairs. A professor in the Department of Earth & Environment, she has led key efforts to enhance BU’s academic quality and global competitiveness, including a University-wide process for academic program review, strengthening of graduate education, and new programming to advance digital learning. Before becoming provost at BU, she was a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California, and served in a variety of leadership roles there including Executive Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.
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Angela Redish, M.A., Ph.D., is a Professor of Economics and the Provost and Vice-President Academic pro tem at the University of British Columbia. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Redish served as the Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President Enrolment and Academic Facilities from 2012. As Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts at UBC, Dr. Redish taught at UBC for nearly 30 years. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, and her subsequent research studied the evolution of the European and North American monetary and banking systems. She served as Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada in 2000-2001, and continues to be active in monetary policy debates. Her teaching has been mainly in the areas of economic history, monetary and macro-economics.

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Martin A. Schmidt, S.M., Ph.D., is Provost of MIT. A member of the MIT faculty since 1988, Provost Schmidt has been a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. From 1999 to 2006, he served as the Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT, and Associate Provost from 2008 to 2013. His teaching and research is in the areas of micro and nanofabrication of sensors, actuators and electronic devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), design of micromechanical sensors and actuators, and micro/nanofabrication technology. He is the co-author of more than 80 journal publications and 120 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He is also an inventor on more than 30 issued U.S. patents.

","weight":4},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"Timothy W. Tong ","filename":"prof.-timothy-w.-tong_131x141.jpg","position":"President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ","description":"Professor Timothy W. Tong took office as President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 1 January 2009. Prior to that, he was Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University in the United States. Professor Tong received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University (OSU), and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the same discipline from the University of California at Berkeley.

Professor Tong is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES) and the International Thermal Conductivity Conference. Professor Tong was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers and the Engineering Hall of Fame by the College of Engineering of OSU in 2001 and 2010 respectively.

Professor Tong is also engaged in public service in Hong Kong. He was appointed a Non-official Justice of the Peace in 2010 and a member of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2013.

Professor Tong is currently Senior Vice President of HKAES, an Honorary Professor (Mechanical Engineering) of Tongji University, and a member of the International Board of Overseers of Sabanci University of Turkey.","weight":5},{"type":"University of Advisory Board","name":"Joanne Wright","filename":"joanne-wright_131x141.jpg","position":"Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), The University of Queensland","description":"Professor Joanne Wright is Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at The University of Queensland. She has chaired all major University committees relating to teaching and learning, quality, the student experience and several major capital works projects. She has successfully led efforts to improve student satisfaction in relation to both teaching and the wider student experience at several different universities in Australia and the United Kingdom. Professor Wright was a Ministerial appointee to the Australian Higher Education Standards Panel which made recommendations to the Minister on new or amended standards for Higher Education. Professor Wright has Joint Honours (in Politics and Government, and History) from the University of Kent at Canterbury, an M.Litt in Strategic Studies from the University of Aberdeen, a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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