One critic of Ramo's plan is University of Oregon professor Arif Dirlik, a "notable specialist in Chinese and in intellectual history," who wrote the paper Beijing Consensus: Beijing "Gongshi."
The Institute's visiting professors to date have been the intellectual historian Arif Dirlik (in 2005), the Nobel prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffman (in 2008), and French neurophysiologist Alain Berthoz (in 2009), computer scientist Barbara Grosz (in 2010), and cognitive neuroscientist, Stanislas Dehaene (2011), and microbiologist, Philippe Sansonetti (2011).
Arif Mardin | Arif Ali-Shah | Arif Dirlik | Arif | Abdul Salam Arif | Sardar Muhammad Arif Nakai | Mehmet Arif Şenerim | Mehmet Arif Bey | Khalid Mahmud Arif | Arif Zaman | Arif S. Kinchen | Arif Örgüç | Arif Babayev |