Universities are competing to attract and retain globally mobile talent. What are the strategic challenges to stand out from the crowd? How much does work culture affect academics' career decisions? And do English speaking countries have an advantage when vying for star researchers?

Phil Baty chairs this live podcast from the Times Higher Education Research Excellence Summit Eurasia at Kazan Federal University. He’s joined by Steven Duggen, director of education partnerships at the Microsoft Corporation and a member of the governing board of the Unesco Institute for Information Technologies in Education; Anamika Srivastava assistant director at the Centre for International Trade and Economic Laws at O.P. Jindal Global University; and Airat Khasianov director of the Higher School of Information Technologies and Intelligent Systems at Kazan Federal university.