About

Gita Steiner-Khamsi is William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education. She also holds the honorary UNESCO Chair of Comparative Education Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland. Her scholarly interests include comparative policy studies, policy borrowing/lending, teacher policy and school reform, globalization theories, case-study methodology, strategic planning, and evaluation research. Professor Steiner-Khamsi published widely, including 15 books. The most recent book is entitled  Time in Education Policy Transfer. The Seven Temporalities of Global School Reform. The book is available as an open-access publication here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-82524-8. 

She is the Research Lead for the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) hub for the Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Asia and Pacific (EMAP) region, based at NORRAG in Geneva. KIX EMAP surfaces, amplifies and disseminates knowledge of national policy experts from over 40 countries of the Global South. The seven-year project, spanning 2020-2027, is funded by the Global Partnership for Education and administered globally by the International Development Research Centre. Periodically, she conducts analytical work related to school reform with the Asian Development Bank, European Union, Open Society Foundations, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, UNICEF, USAID, and the World Bank, with a focus on Mongolia and Central Asia. She was an editor of the World Yearbook of Education, president of the Comparative and International Education Society, and Academic Director of NORRAG. NORRAG is a global network of over 6,000 researchers, policymakers, NGO advocates, and government representatives who are committed to knowledge equity, as evidenced in the initiative #TheSouthAlsoKnows. Prior to joining the faculty at Teachers College, she worked for close to ten years as a policy analyst for Ministry of Education of Zurich/Switzerland. She teaches in the cluster Global Governance, Policy, and Planning of the program in International and Comparative Education.

She is the recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Mongolian National University of Education. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in Switzerland.