A list of previous keynote speakers is given below. The decision has been made in 2008 that keynote speakers that has already presented a keynote paper at HEFAT may not be considered again as keynote speakers for the following three HEFAT conferences. The previous keynote speakers were:

Name	Affiliation
HEFAT2002	1st International Conference: Kruger National Park, South Africa
Adrian Bejan	Duke University, USA
Beric Skews	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Satish G Kandlikar	Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Antony Jacobi	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jungho Kim	University of Maryland, USA
Liqiu Wang	University of Hong Kong
AAM Delil	National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Netherlands
Detliv Kroger	University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
HEFAT2003	2nd International Conference: Victoria Falls, South Africa
Kyoji Kamemoto	Yokohama National Universirt, Japan
Dimos Poulikakos	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
KN Seetharamu	USM Engineering, Malaysia
Pega Hrnjak	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
HEFAT2004	3rd International Conference: Cape Town, South Africa
John R Thome	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Afshin Ghajar	Oklahoma State University
H Hayami	Kyushu University, Japan
Leon Liebenberg	University of Pretoria, South Africa
HEFAT2005	4th International Conference: Cairo, Egypt
VK Dhir	University of California, USA
Holger Martin	Karlsruhe University, Germany
G Hetsroni	Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Y Tsujimoto	Osaka University, Japan
P Nithiarasu	University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom
AAM Delil	Advanced Aerospace Thermal Control Systems
HEFAT2007	5th International Conference: Sun City, South Africa
Yas Takata	Kyushu University, Japan
Peter Vadasz	Northern Arizona University, USA
AS Majumdar	National University of Singapore
AT Prata	Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
IG Shekriladze	Georgian Technical University, Georgia
Wen-Quan Tao	Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Bartoli Carlo	University of Pisa, Italy
John R Thome	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
HEFAT2008	6th International Conference: University of Pretoria, South Africa
Adrian Bejan and Sylvie Lorente	Duke University, USA
Adrian Briggs	University of London, United Kingdom
VV Kulish	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
K Sefiane	University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Peter Stehlik	Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
HEFAT2010	7th International Conference: Antalya, Turkey
Zahid Ayub	Isotherm, Inc., USA
Afshin Ghajar	Oklahoma State University, USA
Thomas McKrell	MIT, USA
Pradeep Bansal	University of Auckland, New Zeeland
Ranganathan Kumar	University of Central Florida, USA
Charles Ward	University of Toronto, Canada
Oleg Kabov	Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
HEFAT2011	8th International Conference: Mauritius
Dongsheng Wen	Queen Mary University of London, UK
John Thome	EPFL, Switzerland
Qiuwang Wang	Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Michel de Paepe	Ghent University, Belgium
Gordon Mallinson	The University of Auckland
Pega Hrnjak	University of Illinois, USA
Md. Mahbub Alam	University of Pretoria, South Africa
HEFAT2012	9th International Conference: Malta
Avi Bar-Cohen	University of Maryland, USA
Brian Spalding	CHAM, UK
Tilak Chandratilleke	Curtin University, Australia
John Chai, UAE	Petroleum Institute, UAE
Tunde Bello-Ochende	University of Pretoria, South Africa
Remi Revellin	National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, France
HEFAT2014	10th International Conference: Orlando
Cees van der Geld	Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Huihe Qiu	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Zhixiong Guo	Rutgers University, USA
Christos Markides	Imperial College, UK
Ana Moita	Lisbon University, Portugal
Sebastian Volz	CNRS, France
Rick de Lange	Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Mikhail Liberman	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Bale Reddy	University of Ontario, Canada
Martin Oberlack	Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Dean Vucinic	Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
HEFAT2015	11th International Conference: Kruger National Park, South Africa
Pega Hrnjak	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Alexander Yarin	University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Sadik Kakac	TOBB University Economics and Technology, Turkey
Stephane Lips	INSA Lyon, France
Davide del Col	University of Padova, ITaly
Patrick Oosthuizen	Queen's University, Canada
HEFAT2016	12th International Conference: Costa del Sol, Spain
Xianfan Xu	Purdue University, USA
Koji Takahashi	Kyushu University, Japan
Andrea Cioncolini	University of Manchester, UK
Luisa F Cabeza	University of Lleida, Spain
Ozer Arnas	Military Academy of West Point, USA
HEFAT2017	13th International Conference: Portorož, Slovenia
Matjaž Hriberšek	University of Marlbor, USA
Igor Piori	University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Yulong Ding	University of Birmingham, UK
Mohammed Farid	University of Auckland, New Zealand
Shoji Mori	Yokohama National University, Japan
Catherine Colin	INSA Lyon, France
Matteo Bucci	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
HEFAT2019	14th International Conference: Wicklow, Ireland
Pamela Norris	University of Virginia, United States
Kim Choon Ng	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Prashant Valluri	School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Masayasu Shimura	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Fei Duan	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marcelo De Lemos	Instituto Tecnlogico de Aeronautica - ITA, Brazil