Feng Zhuolin is a Professor at the Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her primary research interests are the development strategies and performance evaluations of world-class universities. In the past years, her research outcomes on the excellence initiatives of WCU were honored with excellence research awards nationally and in Shanghai. She is also an active practitioner of consultation exercises, and her consultation reports have been accepted by policy makers of the Chinese State Council, Chinese Ministry of Education, and higher education institutions. Wang Qi is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. She completed her Master of Arts (MA) and PhD studies at the Department of Education, University of Bath, United Kingdom, from September 2002 to November 2008, and joined SJTU in May 2009. Her research interests include building world-class universities, employability management and skill training, and globalization and education development. Liu Niancai is the Director of the Center for World-Class Universities and the Dean of the School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

His research interests include world-class universities and research universities, educational evaluation and academic ranking, internationalization of education and global common good(s). His recent books include Education in China and the World: Achievements and Contemporary Issues, World-Class Universities: Global Trends and Institutional Models, and China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities Across Eurasia. He is a member of the editorial/advisory boards of several international and national journals. The Academic Ranking of World Universities, an online publication of his group since 2003, has also attracted worldwide attentions.