Former Professor of English Sir Drummond Bone was Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, from 2000-2002, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 2002-2008. He was President of Universities UK from 2005-7. He has sat on the CBI’s Science and Innovation Committee, is Chair of the Observatory on Borderless Education, and has recently completed a report for the UK Government on the Internationalisation of UK higher education. While Vice Chancellor at Liverpool he set up a new University in Suzhou in China, jointly run by Liverpool and Xian Jiatong University. He was chair of Liverpool Culture Company during the run-up to the city’s year as European Capital of Culture, is founding chair of the Liverpool-Shanghai partnership, is Vice-Chair of the Northern Way (an initiative to regenerate the three regions in the North of England) and chair of its Innovation and Industry strategy group.

Sir Drummond Bone will chair session 2a - Forecasting international student demand.