Speakers and Panellists

Welcome to UNESCO

• Mr Koïchiro Matsuura
  Director General of UNESCO

At The Crossroads

• Margaret Spellings
  US Secretary for Education

The importance of ELF08

• Ralph Young
  Microsoft Vice President
  World Wide Public Sector

Changing Contours of Tertiary Education: Role of ICTs

• Mr Abdul Waheed Khan
  Assistant Director General for Communication & Information
  UNESCO

A Vision for Tertiary Education

• Robert Mittman
  Facilitation, Foresight, Strategy
  
• Prof. Datuk Ansary Bin Ahmed
  CEO
  Asia E-University
  
• Prof. Roberto Carneiro 
  Catholic University of Portugal
  
• Dr. Diana Oblinger
  CEO
  EDUCAUSE
  
• Dr. Rafael Rangel
  Tecnológico de Monterrey
  
• Dr. Wim Veen
  Delft University of Technology

Panel Discussion, Higher Education Students

• Anoop Gupta
  Microsoft Corporate VP
  
• Aodhan Coffey
  Team Acid Rain
  Ireland
  
• Long Zheng
  Team SOAK
  Australia
  
• Jasy Liew
  Team Cosmic
  Malasia
  
• Junaid Shafqat
  Team View
  Pakistan

A Community Perspective

• Jan Figel
  Commissioner

Barriers To Achieving The Vision

• Robert Mittman
  Facilitation, Foresight, Strategy
  
• Dr. Suaad Fahad Alharthi
  Saudi Ministry of Higher Education
  
• Dr. Bruno Lanvin
  INSEAD
  
• Dr. Jan-Martin Lowendah
  Gartner
  
• Dr Tarek G. Shawki
  Director
  Bureau for Science and Technology in Arab States
  UNESCO
  
• Dr Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic 
  Higher Education Division
  UNESCO

Moving Toward Success

• Anoop Gupta
  Microsoft Corporate VP

Strategies To Overcome The Barriers

• Robert Mittman
  Facilitation, Foresight, Strategy
  
• Dr. Hoda Baraka
  Ministry of Information Technology and Communication
  Egypt
  
• Richard Descoings
  President
  Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
  
• Dorothy Gordon
  Director-General
  Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT
  
• Prof. Diana Laurillard
  Knowledge Lab
  London Institute of Education
  
• Dr. Jim Ptaszynski
  Microsoft
  World Wide Higher Education

Endnotes: e-Technology, An Ally of the Planet?

• Natarajan Ishwaran
  Director of Ecological and Earth Sciences Division
  UNESCO
  
• Rob Bernard
  General Manager Environmental Sustainability
  Microsoft