Keynote papers
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 |