U.S. participants include: Debra W. Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools Patrick S. Osmer, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School, The Ohio State University James C. Wimbush, Dean, The University Graduate School, Indiana University Maureen Grasso, Dean, Graduate School, University of Georgia Jim McGinty, Vice Chairman, Cambridge Information Group Boe Horton, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, East Asia Pacific, ProQuest Julia D. Kent, Program Manager, Best Practices, Council of Graduate Schools International participants include: Maxwell King, Convenor, Go8 Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research and Research Training, Monash University, Australia Helene Marsh, Convenor, Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies, Dean of Graduate Research Studies, James Cook University, Australia Joseph Luca, Dean, Graduate Research School, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Zlatko Skrbis, Dean, Graduate School, The University of Queensland, Australia Vahan Agopyan, Provost for Postgraduate Studies, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil John (Jay) Doering, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada Allison B. Sekuler, Associate Vice-President and Dean (Graduate Studies), McMaster University, Canada Gary W. Slater, Dean, Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada Noreen Golfman, Dean of Graduate Studies/Past President Canadian Federation for the Humanities & Social Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Chen Shiyi, Dean of Graduate School & Dean of College of Engineering, Peking University, China He Kebin, Executive Dean, Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China Sun Shigang, Vice-President and Dean of the Graduate School, Xiamen University, China Du Chaohui, Deputy Dean, Graduate School, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Hu Xiangpei, Executive Dean, Graduate School, Dalian University of Technology, China Paul K.H. Tam, Pro-Vice-Chancellor & Vice-President (Research), Dean, Graduate School, The University of Hong Kong Amr Shaarawi, Dean of Graduate Studies, The American University in Cairo, Egypt Jean Chambaz, Vice President (Research), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France Ernst Rank, Dean, Graduate School & Head of Chair for Computation in Engineering, Technische Universitӓt München, Germany Annette Schmidtmann, Head, Research Careers Division, German Research Council, Germany Liviu Matei, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Central European University, Hungary Kumkum Garg, Director of Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Institute of Technology, India Rose Alinda Alias, Chair, Malaysia Deans of Graduate Studies Council (MyDEGS), Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Lucy Johnston, Dean of Postgraduate Research, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Mohan Kankanhalli, Associate Provost (Graduate Education) & Professor, National University of Singapore Kyung Chan MIN, Member, Presidential Advisory Council on Education, Science & Technology andProfessor in Department of Mathematics, Yonsei University, South Korea Han Jo LIM, President, Korean National Association of Graduate Schools, Dean of Graduate School, Ajou University, South Korea María Morrás Ruiz-Falcó, Prof; Delegate for the Internationalization of Doctoral Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain