Professor of History of Education and Education Policy Analysis, University of Zurich (Switzerland). A history of education expert specialising in global education governance, educational testing, and the role of international organisations such as UNESCO and the OECD in shaping education policy.

Former Deputy General Secretary, Education International. Global Partnership for Education, Board of Directors. An international education policy leader and trade union advocate for teachers. Expert in civil society organisations in global governance of education.

Professor, University of Toronto (Canada). Former Director of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO). A leading scholar in comparative and international education and global education governance. Her research explores international organisations, education reform in developing countries, and global partnerships in education. She has held senior advisory roles with international agencies and foundations.

Executive Director of NORRAG, a global research network focusing on international education policy and cooperation. Her work centers on global governance of education, multilateral partnerships, and the political economy of education reform. She previously worked in international development and education policy analysis.

Senior Lecturer, King’s College London. Her research focuses on global governance of education and the influence of international organisations on educational ideas and policies. She has published on the history of the educational work of UNESCO, the OECD and the World Bank, global agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals, and lifelong learning as a global policy concept. She also worked at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg for over a decade.

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich. Patrick Montjouridès has over 12 years of experience working at UNESCO. As a technical lead, he contributed to the Global Education Monitoring Report, the flagship global report on education produced by UNESCO. His work focuses on international education policy, education statistics, and global monitoring initiatives. In particular, he examines education indicators, governance frameworks, and the role of international organisations in shaping global education policy agendas.

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. She has over fifteen years of experience in education development with the United Nations, RTI and other agencies. Specialising in issues relating to: middle tier leadership, out-of-school children, household survey analysis, policy analysis, project management, and qualitative research.

Professor of School Development and Governance at the Zurich University of Teacher Education. His research adopts an international, macro-level perspective on educational policymaking and governance. He focuses on how distinct global developments in governance (e.g., behavioural governance; platform governance; synthetic governance) affect local school practices.

Professor of Language, Technology and Accessibility at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Zurich. Based in the field of computational linguistics, her research focuses on language-based assistive technologies in the context of persons with disabilities. The focus is on basic and application-oriented research into the development and reception of these technologies.

Researcher and Professor at the Department of Educational Research, CINVESTAV Mexico City, Mexico. Her research interests focus on the relationships among knowledge, schooling, and politics, in a historical and cultural approach. She is currently studying the intersections between schools and digital visual culture, and has developed comparative research projects on the impact of digital technologies in teacher education

Professor and researcher, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento / Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina). A comparative education scholar whose research focuses on education reform, secondary education expansion, and policy transfer in Latin America. She has contributed to studies on global education agendas and their local reinterpretations in national systems.

Professor of Education at the Zurich University of Teacher Education. Her work focuses on international education projects, teacher professional development, and the promotion of life skills and future competencies among students. She leads and collaborates on projects aimed at improving education quality and peer learning in schools and universities, particularly in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

Professor of Theory and History of Education, University of Groningen (Netherlands). A historian of education whose work focuses on the social and economic history of schooling. His research explores school finance, school architecture, early childhood institutions, and teachers’ professional lives. He serves on editorial boards of several major journals in the history of education.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Education manager. He works at the intersection of human rights and education in the digital age with Amnesty International, the Council of Europe and Fondation Botnar, and previously with UN Human Rights in Geneva, Dakar and New York.

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Professor in History of Education and Education Policy Analysis

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