International Alliance of Research Universities

TheInternational Alliance of Research Universities(IARU) was launched on 14 January 2006 as a co-operative network of 10 leading, international research-intensive universities who share similar visions for higher education, in particular the education of future leaders. The IARU Chair is elected from among the IARU Presidents for a period of 2 years. Past IARU Chairpersons:At the launch the presidents elected ProfessorIan Chubb, 2005 - 2008 (Australian National University); ProfessorTan Chorh Chuan, 2009 - 2012 (National University of Singapore); Professor Ralph Eichler, 2013 - 2014 (ETH Zurich); Professor Ralf Hemmingsen, 2015 - 2016 (University of Copenhagen); ProfessorNicholas Dirks, 2017 (University of California, Berkeley); ChancellorCarol Christ, 2017 - 2018 (University of California, Berkeley); PresidentMakoto Gonokami, 2018 - 2020 (University of Tokyo); Vice-ChancellorStephen Toope, 2021-2022 (University of Cambridge); Vice-ChancellorAnthony Freeling(2022-2023). The current chairperson of IARU is ProfessorDaya Reddy, the Interim Vice-Chancellor of theUniversity of Cape Town.

In January 2016, theUniversity of Cape Townjoined as the 11th member.

Its Presidents meet annually at a host university venue to discuss joint initiatives under the following categories:

• Global education initiatives, which includes the flagshipGlobal Summer ProgramArchived2016-03-03 at theWayback Machine;
• Institutional joint networking;
• Grand Challenge, and most notably itsCampus Sustainability; and,
• Research initiatives.

• Australian National University
• ETH Zurich
• National University of Singapore
• Peking University
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Cambridge
• University of Cape Town
• University of Copenhagen
• University of Oxford
• University of Tokyo
• Yale University

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  Australian National University
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  ETH Zürich
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  National University of Singapore
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  Peking University
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  University of California, Berkeley
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  University of Cambridge
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  University of Cape Town
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  University of Copenhagen
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  University of Oxford
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  University of Tokyo
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  Yale University

• IARU website