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̽»¨ÊÓƵ's World University Rankings editor, Phil Baty, reports from the World Economic Forum 2017 in Davos, where he has been speaking to university leaders from across the world. 

In a week where Donald Trump is set to become the 45th president of the United States, we hear how universities – and the principles for which they stand – will outlast short-term periods of political tumult.  

In this report, we hear from: Subra Suresh, president of Carnegie Mellon University; Lino Guzzella, president of ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; Tony Chan, president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Steve Kang, president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Atsushi Seike, president of Keio University; and Martin Vatterli, president of École  Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.