Leadership and Governance
Professor Christian Schwarzenegger, Provost of Universitas 21 leads our organisation with oversight and governance from the Executive and Board, led by Professor David Garza, Chair of Universitas 21 and President of Tecnologico de Monterrey.
Chair of Universitas 21
Professor David Garza is Chair of Universitas 21 and President of Tecnológico de Monterrey, a non-profit private Mexican university system composed by three Institutions: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Tecmilenio and Academic Medical Center TecSalud. David has held academic and leadership positions at Tecnológico de Monterrey for almost 40 years, including Provost, Rector, Head of Campus and Dean of the School of Engineering, among others.
Provost of Universitas 21
As Provost of Universitas 21, Professor Schwarzenegger works with university presidents, senior leaders, and U21’s academic and professional communities, he focusses on strengthening the network’s collective impact through international collaboration, shared innovation, and institutional learning. Christian serves as Provost on secondment from the University of Zurich, where he remains Professor of Law. Prior to joining U21, he served as Vice President for Faculty Affairs and Scientific Information at the University of Zurich from 2014.
Governance
Board of Directors and ExCo
The current Chair of Universitas 21, Professor David Garza is assisted by the U21 Executive Committee, a small group of Presidents from around the network, who have oversight of the work of the network, its activities, and its interactions with members as well as with external bodies.
Senior Leaders’ group
Each member university nominates one senior member of staff as a U21 Senior Leader, to take an active liaison role with the U21 network and the network administration. Typically, the Senior Leader holds a very senior post in their university with sufficient seniority to speak and make decisions on behalf of their own university and sufficient awareness of the international higher education policy and strategy to be able to contribute to the network’s debates and decision making.
Steering Groups
Steering Groups have representatives from some of our members and focus on specific strategic programmes of work across global research, education and student experience.
U21 Officers
Representatives in each member institution, U21 Officers are responsible for promoting the value of the U21 network and facilitating engagement across U21 student, staff and research opportunities.
U21 Secretariat
The Secretariat, led by the Director of Operations, works with the Provost to deliver all the activity across the network from programme delivery, events management and communications.