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

Ben Vinson III

President, Howard University

Tony Bennett

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

Jared C. Bass

Senior Vice President, Education, Center for American Progress

Scott Carlson

Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education

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

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

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

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

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