Mark Ginsburg is an international education quality specialist at the Academy for Educational Development (USA) and is a coeditor of the Comparative Education Review. He served as a Lecturer at the University of Aston in Birmingham (England, 1976-78), Associate Professor at University of Houston (Texas, USA, 1978-87); Professor and Director of the Institute for International Studies in Education at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA, 1987-2004). He directed the Faculties of Education Reform project of the USAID-funded Educational Reform Program in Egypt between 2004 and 2006. He has published extensively on education for peace and justice, teachers and teacher education, teachers’ work and lives, policy/institution reform, and policy/practice-oriented research and evaluation.
Lynn Ilon is Associate Professor in Florida International University (FIU) International, Intercultural Studies in Education program, and founder of FIU’s Intercultural Institute for Educational Initiatives (IIEI). Dr. Ilon is an educational economist whose research interest focuses on in educational policy and planning issues arising from economic globalization. Her recent work on the topic includes numerous academic papers as well as invited lectures in several countries. Dr. Ilon holds a Ph.D. in International Development Education and an M.S. in Economics from Florida State University, an M.S. in Educational Research and Statistics from the State University of New York at Albany, and a B.A. in Education and Anthropology from the University of Hawaii.
Steven J. Klees is Professor of Education in the Department of Education Leadership, Higher Education, and International Education at the College of Education, University of Maryland Dr. Klees’ work has focused on comparative and international education, with a disciplinary specialization in economics. He has taught at Cornell University, Stanford University, Florida State University and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. Dr. Klees’ long-term research interests concern the political economy of educational policy and social change. He is especially interested in how gender, race, and class intersect with educational and social inequalities.
Karen E. Mundy is an Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Comparative, International and Development Education Centre at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research has focused on the influence of international organizations on educational policy, the growth of supranational forms of governance in education, and educational reform in Africa. Professor Mundy’s work in the field of international and comparative education is widely read and cited, and it provides crucial insight into the dynamic relationship between and within governmental and non-governmental institutions and actors in education.
Iveta Silova is Assistant Professor of Comparative and International Education at the College of Education, Lehigh University. She is the author of From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia (Information Age Publishing, 2006) and coeditor (with Gita Steiner-Khamsi) of How NGOs React (Kumarian Press, 2008) and (with Mark Bray and Virginija Budiene) of Education in a Hidden Marketplace: Monitoring of Private Tutoring (Open Society Institute, 2006). Dr. Silova is also coeditor (with Alexander Wiseman) of the journal European Education.
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Her two most recent publications are Educational Import: Local Encounter with Global Forces in Mongolia (Palgrave Macmillan 2006; coauthored with Ines Stolpe) and the recently-released coedited volume (with Iveta Silova) How NGOs React (Kumarian Press, 2008). In addition to engaging in research in comparative education history, theory, and methods, she does analytical work and applied research in Mongolia, Central Asia, and Europe.
Nelly P. Stromquist teaches at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California. She specializes in educational policy from gender and social justice perspectives. Professor Stromquist is the author of several books and articles; most recently she edited The Professoriate in the Age of Globalization (Sense, 2007).
