Academic Directors
- Prof. Dr. Attila Pausits, Head of the Department for Higher Education Research, Danube University Krems (Austria)
- Prof. Dr. Jussi Kivistö, Higher Education Group, University of Tampere (Finland)
- Prof. Dr. Liu Baocun, Director of the International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Beijing Normal University (China)
- Prof. Dr. Frank Ziegele, Director of the MBA-programme in Higher Education and Research Management, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Gábor Halász, Head of Centre for Higher Education and Innovation Research, Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)
- Prof. Dr. Gurparkash Singh, Chair of Higher Education Management & Leadership, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (India)
Lecturers
- Prof. Dr. Liu Baocun, Beijing Normal University (BNU) (Beijing, China)
- Prof. Dr. Yuzhuo Cai, University of Tampere (Finland)
- Prof. Volker Gehmlich, MBA, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Johann Günther, Jianghan University, (Wuhan, China)
- Prof. Dr. Gábor Halász, Eötvös Lorand University Budapes (Hungary)
- Prof. Dr. Seppo Hölltä, University of Tampere (Finland)
- Prof. Dr. Li Jiayong, Beijing Normal University (BNU) (Beijing, China)
- Prof. Dr. Teng Jun, Beijing Normal University (BNU) (Beijing, China)
- Prof. Dr. Jussi Kivistö, PhD University of Tampere (Finland)
- Prof. Dr. Vuokko Kohtamäki, University of Tampere (Finland)
- Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Leitner, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Lisowski, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (Germany)
- Prof. Dr. habil. Benedikt Lutz, Danube University Krems (Austria)
- Prof. Dr. Attila Pausits, Danube University Krems (Austria)
- Prof. Dr. Hans Pechar, University of Klagenfurt (Austria)
- Prof. Dr. Liu Qiang, Beijing Normal University (BNU) (Beijing, China)
- Prof. Dr. Hans Vossensteyn, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (Germany)
- Prof. Dr. James Williams, PhD, Birmingham City University (United Kingdom)
- Prof. Dr. Frank Ziegele, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (Germany)
*selected faculty, listed in alphabetical order
Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholars
- Prof. Dr. Lesley Andres, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
- Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Balbachevsky, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Dr. Zhang Danhui, Beijing Normal University (China)
- Prof. Dr. James Fairweather, Michigan State University (USA)
- Prof. Dr. Yan Fengqiao, Peking University (China)
- Prof. Dr. Myroslava Hladchenko, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine)
- Prof. Dr. Teng Jun, Beijing Normal University (China)
- Dr. Manja Klemencic, Harvard University (USA)
- Prof. Dr. Patrício Langa, Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo, Mozambique)
- Prof. Dr. Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia (USA)
- Prof. Dr. Zhou Xueguang, Stanford University (USA)
- Prof. Dr. Yingjie Wang, Beijing Normal University (China)
*selected visiting scholars, listed in alphabetical order
Practitioners
- Anna Glass, Policy analyst for higher education at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Thomas Estermann, Director for governance, funding and public policy development at European University Association (EUA)
- Dr. Achim Hopbach, Managing director at Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria (AQ Austria)
- Rob van Lambalgen, Director of business, media and law of Windesheim University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands)
- Dr. Michalis Tzatzanis, Expert in European and international programmes at the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
*selected practitioners, listed in alphabetical order
