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Sarah Birrell Ivory
University of Edinburgh

Dr Sarah Birrell Ivory is director of the Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability (B-CCaS) and senior lecturer in Climate Change and Business Strategy at the University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS). Her textbook Becoming a Critical Thinker: for your university studies and beyond, published by Oxford University Press, has been adopted by universities across the world to support students’ university journey. Dr Ivory’s research and executive education covers sustainability, climate change, and critical thinking, working with many leading global companies. 

Kylie Message-Jones
Australian National University

Professor Kylie Message-Jones is director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University and director of the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres. A professor of public humanities, she is a research fellow of the National Museum of Australia, and an advisor to the Vietnamese Museum of Australia. She is author of six books exploring the cultural politics of museums. She has held various university leadership roles and has designed and led research development and leadership programmes for graduate students and academics at all levels. She has recently developed a cross-institutional collaborative Research Training Program with the National Museum of Australia.

Catherine Léglu 
University of Luxembourg

Professor Catherine Léglu is vice-rector for academic affairs at the University of Luxembourg, in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a young, research intensive public university. Her role has responsibility for education strategy, education quality, steering student admissions and the student journey through to graduation, as well as overseeing the university library. She read modern languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she also did her PhD on medieval Occitan literature. She taught at Queen’s University Belfast, Bristol and was until 2019 professor of medieval French and Occitan literature at the University of Reading. She is currently a visiting professor at the University of Reading.