Executive

James Ogunleye, PhD, is a comparative and international education scholar and convenor of the Global CIE Forum Roundtable, now in its eighth year. He is Professor of Innovation and Enterprise and directs AIM London, maintaining research interests across education, business, and technology. With extensive experience teaching and supervising doctoral students in the UK and abroad, his work includes co-facilitating major R&D capacity-building programmes for over 3,000 senior African academics between 2019 and 2025. He serves as co-editor of the International Journal of Multidisciplinary Comparative Studies and New Era in Education, and is General Editor of the Studies in Comparative Education, Science and Technology series. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Dr. Jae Park reads at the United Arab Emirates University, College of Education. His research interests are in sociology and philosophy of education. He serves as the Past President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Comparative Education and Development. He contributed to the edited volume “Geopolitical Transformations in Higher Education: Imagining, Fabricating and Contesting Innovation.” He serves as board member, editor and author for the section ‘Peace Education’ in the Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, and as an Advisory Board member of theComparative Education Review.

Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral is Full Professor of International and Comparative Education at the Institute of Education of the University of Münster, Germany, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education (CELE) at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include education policy studies, comparative higher education, lifelong learning and life course. He has collaborated in and coordinated several national and international research projects and published extensively.

Sui Lin Goei, PhD, is a Professor of Inclusive Education and a leading Dutch expert in inclusive teaching and learning environments. Trained as a child psychologist, she worked as a school psychologist and lecturer at VU Amsterdam before becoming a professor at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, where she developed the Inclusive Learning Environments research programme and now serves as Academic Director of the Professional Master’s Programme. She has held visiting professorships in Singapore, Indonesia, and the United States, and since 2023 has been a national figurehead for the Dutch National Programme Youth, co-leading major education and youth funding initiatives. Her work focuses on teacher training for inclusive education, classroom and behaviour management within multi-tiered systems of support, and the use of Lesson Study for differentiated instruction. An active comparative education scholar, she organizes annual international field trips for school leaders, and in 2023 became Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies.

Dr. Will Brehm is Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Canberra (Australia), Adjunct Researcher at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (Japan), and Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia).

Specialising in comparative and international education in Southeast Asia, Will’s research examines the intersections of education, international relations, and the political economy of development, with particular attention to the Mekong sub-region. His work addresses educational privatisation, regional identity, community-based education, and the politics of knowledge production.

He is the author of Cambodia for Sale (Routledge, 2021) and co-editor of several volumes on education and power in Southeast Asia. He also hosts FreshEd, a widely used education podcast downloaded over one million times and integrated into courses at more than 100 universities worldwide.

Dr. Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite is an Affiliated Scholar and Lecturer at the University of California–Berkeley, Lecturer at San José State University, and Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco and Notre Dame de Namur University. She specializes in Comparative and International Education (CIE), with a focus on language rights, multilingual education, and critical pedagogy.

Her current research explores the intersection of language and human rights in education, bilingualism and multilingualism, and AI-assisted learning, including projects at UC Berkeley on integrating Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) into multilingual education. She is also advancing work on STEM-to-STEAM pedagogy, linking science and the arts through critical and cross-cultural approaches.

Dr. Babaci-Wilhite has authored two monographs on language and human rights in education, edited multiple volumes on curriculum, language, and STEM/STEAM, and is currently editing The Joy of Being Multilingual (forthcoming, De Gruyter Brill). Fluent in several languages, she continues to teach and publish internationally on issues of linguistic rights, human rights, and innovation in education.