Henry T. Yang was named UC Santa Barbara's fifth chancellor in 1994. He was formerly the Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, where he also served as the dean of engineering for ten years.

Jean-Lou Chameau is an independent consultant based in Paris, specializing in higher education, research and innovation. He is President Emeritus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), an institution he led from 2006 to 2013. During his tenure as president, Caltech became number one in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, based at Caltech, successfully landed the rover Curiosity on Mars.

Professor Chan assumed his role as the third president of KAUST in September 2018 after nearly a decade as president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

He is now also a member of the State Council Academic Degree Committee and National Science and Technology Award Committee, the president of the Chinese Society of Micro-nano Technology, the president of Beijing Association for Science and Technology and the vice chairman of All-China Environment Federation.

Professor Shitij Kapur is the President & Principal of King's College London. He returned to lead King's in June 2021, following more than four years at the University of Melbourne, where he was Dean and Assistant Vice Chancellor (Health) for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and interim Deputy Vice Chancellor (International).

LIN Jianhua is Member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, vice chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, and the pioneering director of the future education management research center of Peking University. Former President of Peking University and Professor of Chemistry..

​Alsalman is a professor in Civil Engineering. He has an extensive and wide experience spanning more than 25 years in the fields of academic, educational and university administrative leadership, where he started in the KSU administration as a chairman of surveying engineering program, then he was appointed as the Vice Dean of the College of Engineering for Academic Affairs then became the Dean of Admissions and Registration and then he served as the Vice Rector for Academic and Educational Affairs.

Professor Max Lu has been President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Surrey since April 2016. His responsibility is to lead the University, define its academic direction and strategy, and ensure that it is well managed.

Eloïc Peyrache started his career at HEC in 2003. He is Associate Professor in Economics. Eloïc Peyrache held several leading positions in the HEC group since he got his tenure in 2009. He has been appointed Associate Dean of the Master in Management (Grande Ecole program) in 2009. His position has been extended to the pre-experience Masters portfolio (15 masters programs) in 2010. He has also been supervising HEC initiatives on Equal Opportunity Policy and on Entrepreneurship since 2014.

Professor Shih Choon Fong is former Founding President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from 2008 to 2013, and a renowned fracture mechanics expert. Before joining KAUST as the Founding President, he was president of the National University of Singapore (NUS) for 9 years.