Emerging Economies Summit: Presidents’ forum on resilience

Higher education leaders reflect on the challenges universities face during times of national conflict  

January 18, 2019
President's forum on resiliency

Leaders from Colombia, Qatar, Kurdistan, South Africa, Russia and Palestine discussed how institutions can serve a country in conflict during “Presidents’ forum on resilience: university leaders responding to adversity” at the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies Summit 2019.

Chaired by THE’s editor John Gill, the panel included Dlawer Abdul-Aziz Ala'Aldeen, president of the Middle East Research Institute; Mirvat Bulbul, vice-president for administrative and financial affairs at Birzeit University; Hassan Al-Derham, president of Qatar University; Marta Losada Falk, president emeritus of Antonio Nariño University; Tshilidzi Marwala, vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Johannesburg; and Konstantin Miniar-Beloruchev, vice-rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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