speakers

ACEx2025 Speakers

Join us at ACEx2025 to engage with visionary speakers as they explore the critical questions that higher education faces.

Francisco Marmolejo

President of Higher Education, Qatar Foundation

Vivienne Stern

Chief Executive, Universities UK

Ted Mitchell

President, American Council of Education

Ben Vinson III

President, Howard University

Mark Becker

President, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

Tony Bennett

Former Dean and Markel Families Men’s Basketball Coach, University of Virginia

Christine Brennan

Award-Winning National Sports Columnist, USA Today, and Commentator, CNN, ABC News, PBS NewsHour, and National Public Radio

Jared C. Bass

Senior Vice President, Education, Center for American Progress

Scott Carlson

Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Cole Clark

Managing Director, Higher Education, Deloitte Services LP

Megan Cluver

Principal, Higher Education, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Sara Custer

Editor in Chief, Inside Higher Ed

Jason D. Delisle

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center on Education Data and Policy, Urban Institute

Nathan D. Grawe

Professor of Economics, Carleton College

Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

National Higher Education Reporter, The Washington Post

M. Elizabeth Magill

Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania

Letlhokwa George Mpedi

Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Johannesburg

Mushtaq Gunja

Executive Director, Carnegie Classification Systems and Senior Vice President, American Council on Education

Susannah Heschel

Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Chair of the Jewish Studies Program, Dartmouth College

James J. Zogby

President, Arab American Institute

Robert L. Santos

Director, U.S. Census Bureau

Eunjoo Lee

President, Seoul Cyber University

Stig Leschly

President, Postsecondary Commission

Fernando León García

President, CETYS University, and President, International Association of Universities (2021–24)

Frederick M. Lawrence

Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, The Phi Beta Kappa Society

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellow; and Opinion Columnist, The New York Times

Laura Meckler

National Education Writer, The Washington Post

Jamie Merisotis

President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumina Foundation

Deborah N. Archer

President, American Civil Liberties Union

Zainab Okolo

Senior Vice President of Policy, Advocacy, and Government Relations, The Jed Foundation

Belle S. Wheelan

President, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges

Michael S. Roth

President, Wesleyan University

Jack Stripling

Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Host, College Matters from The Chronicle

Jeff Strohl

Research Professor and Director, Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University

Maria Vicenta Mestre Escrivà

Principal, University of València

Christine Whelan

Purpose Professor, Emory University

Sasha Zhou

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Wayne State University