Olaide Agbaje
is a budding researcher and lecturer in the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her research interest spans across various aspects of higher education with a special interest in the internationalisation of higher education, international student mobility and international students’ experiences. She has published in these areas as well as presented academic papers at conferences and workshops. Olaide has received some awards and recognitions for her work, including the National Research Foundation Masters Block Grant Innovation (2015–2016), The University of Pretoria Doctoral Research Bursary (2018–2019) and Best PhD abstract for completed research 2019 (University of Pretoria, Faculty of Education, Research Indaba 2019). Dr. Olaide is open to opportunities for research collaborations from around the world.
Philip G. Altbach
is Research Professor and Founding Director and Distinguished Fellow of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, where from 1994 to 2015 he was the Monan University Professor. He was the 2004–2006 Distinguished Scholar Leader for the New Century Scholars initiative of the Fulbright program, was given the Houlihan award for distinguished contributions to international education by NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the Bowen distinguished career award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is author of Global Perspectives on Higher Education, Turmoil and Transition, Student Politics in America, among other books. He also co-edited (with Jamil Salmi) The Road to Academic Excellence, (with Michael Bastedo and Patricia Gumport) American Higher Education in the 21st Century, and other books. Dr. Altbach holds the BA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago.
Elizabeth Balbachevsky
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo (USP/Brazil), Director, Center for Public Policy Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA/USP), and regional editor for Latin America at the Springer Encyclopedia of Higher Education (2020). Her field of expertise is Higher Education policies, the academic profession, and university governance.
is Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan. His scholarly interests are in higher education decision making, particularly college admissions, stratification, enrollment management, rankings, and governance. In 2013, he received the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association. Professor Bastedo has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, and a visiting scholar at the Bellagio Center, Stanford, and Sciences Po. His recent books are American Higher Education in the 21st Century and The Organization of Higher Education: Managing Colleges for a New Era (both Johns Hopkins University Press). His most recent research has been reported by journalists at National Public Radio, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Slate, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others.
Patrick Clancy
is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. He previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at UCD. His main research interests are in higher education, with a special focus on access and equity, comparative studies, and policy analysis. His research in higher education includes four national studies on participation in higher education published by the Higher Education Authority and a comparative book, Irish Higher Education: A Comparative Perspective (IPA, 2015). He was a founding member and subsequently served as a member and as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers, He has served on a variety of national and international Advisory and Policy groups on issues in higher education.
Carol Colatrella
is Professor of Literature in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Faculty Development, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her scholarly interests focus on American and European literary, historical, and scientific narratives and on women in higher education. In addition to essays in scholarly journals and anthologies, she has published three books: Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner (1990, 2017); Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading (2002); and Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology (2011). She has also edited and contributed to Technology and Humanity (2012) and coedited Cohesion and Dissent in America (1994).
is Professor Emeritus and Former Director as well as Distinguished Fellow of the ‘Center for International Higher Education’ (CIHE) at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, USA. He is a Senior Fellow of the International Association of Universities (IAU), and chair of the Board of Directors of World Education Services in New York/Toronto. He is founding member and past president of the European Association for International Education (EAIE), founding editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education (Sage), consulting editor of the journal Policy Reviews in Higher Education, associate editor of International Higher Education, and co-editor of the book series Global Perspectives in Higher Education, Brill | Sense. He has (co)written books and articles on international education and is actively involved in assessment and consultancy in international education, for organisations like the European Commission, UNESCO, World Bank, IAU, and the European Parliament.
Heather Eggins
is a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, Visiting Professor at University of Sussex, and a Member of Court at Northampton University. Her research focusses on higher education policy and strategy, with particular interests in the impact of government policy on higher education institutions, internationalisation, access, quality and gender. She was a Fulbright New Century Scholar at Boston College, MA and has served as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education, and a consultant to UNESCO. She is well known as an editor of books on higher education policy, which include, as editor and contributor, Building Higher Education Co-operation with the EU (Brill, 2020), The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education (Springer, 2017), Drivers and Barriers to Achieving Quality in Higher Education (Sense, 2014) and Access and Equity: Comparative Perspectives (Sense, 2010).
Gaële Goastellec
is a sociologist. Her main research interests lie in the relationship between education and social organizations, analyzed through the socio-historical comparison of higher education systems and institutions. A first stream of research deals with access to Higher Education (from Middle Ages to Contemporary Europe, on a global scale for the 20th century), with a special concern for social belongings’ categorization and its translation into admission policies. A second line of research analyzes academic careers and HE organizations. A third research line offers a broader perspective on contemporary schools and students’ trajectories. Professor (MER with Habilitation degree) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, she is the head of the Politics and Organizations of
Kirsten Gomard
now retired from the University of Aarhus, has had a long and distinguished career as a professor, director of studies, and women’s studies scholar. Her research considers organizational issues in education and gender in language and communication. Her publications include studies of feminism in Europe, access and advancement for women scholars in universities, and the role of gender in Nordic political campaign discourse.
Sarah Guri-Rosenblit
is professor of education at the Open University of Israel. Until October 2019 she served as Vice-President for Academic Affairs. She got her PhD from Stanford University in 1984 in education and political science. Her areas of expertise are focused on comparative research of higher education systems, distance education and e-learning. She published books and dozens of articles in these fields. She has been a member of many international forums and organizations (UNESCO Forum for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, Fulbright New Century Scholars, Rockefeller Foundation, Bologna Experts, European Science Foundation, European Distance and E-Learning Network), and she is currently a member of the University of the Future Network.
Sunwoong Kim
is a Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. After graduating from MIT with a PhD in Economics and Urban Planning in 1985, he has authored more than 100 articles, several books, and numerous policy reports on urbanization, housing, human resources, education, elections and territorial disputes. His recent publication includes a contribution to The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Global South (2021). He has served as the President of the Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA) and the President of the Korean American University Professor Association (KAUPA). He has served the co-editor of International Economic Journal between 2003 and 2015.
Elisabeth Lillie
is an Emeritus Professor of Language Learning and Teaching in Ulster University. While her first specialism was in Nineteenth-century Literature and Thought with a PhD on Ernest Renan, she went on to develop sub-specialisms
Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela
is the Vice-Provost for International Affairs and Global Strategy and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BA in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Master’s in Labor & Industrial Relations and a PhD in Educational Policy Studies, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Mabokela’s research seeks to understand experiences of marginalized populations and aims to inform higher education policies that affect these groups. Her research centers or has centered on the examination of three interrelated themes: (1) organizational change and organizational culture in higher education; (2) gender in higher education; and (3) higher education in transitional societies. She is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of seven books and has published extensively in academic journals including Comparative Education Review, American Educational Research Journal, The Review of Higher Education, Comparative Education, and Higher Education, among others.
Patti McGill Peterson
is senior fellow at the American Council on Education (ACE), the coordinating association for higher education in the United States. From 2011–2017, she led ACE’s internationalization and global engagement initiatives. Prior to ACE, she was senior associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. As executive director of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars from 1997 to 2007 she provided leadership for the Fulbright Senior Scholar Program’s international academic exchange with 155 nations. She is president emerita of Wells College and St. Lawrence University, two liberal arts and science institutions where she held presidencies from 1980 to 1997. Dr. Peterson has a BA from the Pennsylvania State University, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and did post-graduate study at Harvard University. She was a Research Fellow at Cornell University’s Institute for Public Affairs and is a past president of the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York.
Rie Mori
is Professor at the National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education (NIAD-QE). She earned BA and MA from Waseda University, and joined National Institution for Academic Degrees
Chika Trevor Sehoole
is a Professor of higher education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In 2003/4 he was a visiting Rockefeller post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. His research interests are in the areas of higher education policy, internationalization of higher education, higher education in Africa and globalization of higher education. He has served in a number international research projects focusing on higher education and providing expertise from the South African and African perspectives. His publications include Democratizing Higher Education in South Africa, Constraints of Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Routledge, 2005), and over 40 articles in journals, book chapters and the popular media. Between 2012 and 2016 he served as chairperson of the Board of the African Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE), a continent-wide organization aimed at promoting the internationalization of higher education on the African continent through research and scholarship.
Anna Smolentseva
is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and a PhD student at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She is focusing on the changing role of higher education in societies, educational inequality, and transformations in post-Soviet higher education systems among others. Recent books include High Participation Systems of Higher Education (co-edited with B. Cantwell & S. Marginson, Oxford University Press, 2018); 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries: Reform and Continuity (co-edited with J. Huisman & I. Froumin, Palgrave, 2018).
Nelly P. Stromquist
received her PhD from Stanford University. She is Emerita Professor and former H. R. W. Benjamin Chair of International Education at the College of Education,
Pedro Teixeira
is Director of CIPES – the Center for Research in Higher Education Policies and Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Porto. He has served as an adviser on Higher Education and Science to the President of Portugal since April 2016. He was Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at the University of Porto (2014–2018) and was also a member of Portugal’s National Council of Education (2014–2018). He has also served on the evaluation panels for the European University Association (EUA) and the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA). He is also a member of the Board of Governors and Secretary General of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and an Associate Researcher of the Program for Research on Private Higher Education (PROPHE).