International Alliance of Research Universities

Research body for universities

The International 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 Professor Ian Chubb, 2005 - 2008 (Australian National University); Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, 2009 - 2012 (National University of Singapore); Professor Ralph Eichler, 2013 - 2014 (ETH Zurich); Professor Ralf Hemmingsen, 2015 - 2016 (University of Copenhagen); Professor Nicholas Dirks, 2017 (University of California, Berkeley); Chancellor Carol Christ, 2017 - 2018 (University of California, Berkeley); President Makoto Gonokami, 2018 - 2020 (University of Tokyo); Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope, 2021-2022 (University of Cambridge); Vice-Chancellor Anthony Freeling (2022-2023). The current chairperson of IARU is Professor Daya Reddy, the Interim Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town.

In January 2016, the University of Cape Town joined 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 flagship Global Summer Program Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine;
* Institutional joint networking;
* Grand Challenge, and most notably its Campus Sustainability; and,
* Research initiatives.

## List of institutions

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* 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

* Australian National University

* ETH Zürich

* 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

## External links

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* IARU website

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International Alliance of Research Universities

* Australian National
* California Berkeley
* Cambridge
* Cape Town
* Copenhagen
* ETH Zurich
* Oxford
* Peking
* Singapore National
* UTokyo
* Yale

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