ADA 2021- 5th International Education Conference

Gita Steiner-Khamsi

Professor of Comparative and International Education, Director of NORRAG, Switzerland.

Gita Steiner-Khamsi

Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (fall semesters) and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (spring semesters). She serves as the Director of NORRAG, a global network for international policy and practice in education and training with over 5,000 members.

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Stephen Kemmis

Professor Emeritus, School of Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia

Stephen Kemmis

Stephen Kemmis is Professor Emeritus in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University in Australia. His current research investigates the nature and change of practices, principally in education. He is the originator of a particular form of practice theory: the theory of practice architectures. He has also written extensively on education, critical participatory action research, higher education development, research methodology, and Indigenous education. He is also one of the co-founders of the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis international research network including researchers from Australia, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Colombia and the Caribbean. He is co-author with Wilfred Carr of Becoming Critical: Education, Knowledge and action research (London: Falmer, 1986); with Robin McTaggart and Rhonda Nixon of The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical participatory action research (Singapore: Springer, 2014); with Jane Wilkinson, Christine Edwards-Groves, Ian Hardy, Peter Grootenboer and Laurette Bristol of Changing Practices, Changing Education (Singapore: Springer, 2014); and the author of A Practice Sensibility An invitation to the theory of practice architectures (Singapore: Springer, 2019). He has held appointments at universities in Australia, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom, and has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities in Europe. In addition to his PhD (1976) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2009 he was awarded doctorates honoris causa from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.

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Tatyana Mertsalova

Leading Expert: Institute of Education / Pinsky Centre of General and Extracurricular Education Associate Professor: Institute of Education / Department of Educational Programs

Tatyana Mertsalova

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Viktor Bolotov

Academic Supervisor: Institute of Education / Centre for Psychometrics and Measurement in Education Professor: Institute of Education / Department of Educational Programs

Viktor Bolotov

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Anna Cristina D'Addio

Senior policy analyst

Anna Cristina D'Addio

Anna Cristina D'Addio is an Economist by background and has worked as a Senior Policy Analyst in the GEM Report team at UNESCO since March 2017. Prior to this position, Anna worked at the OECD on a comprehensive list of issues ranging from financial education and literacy, inequality, poverty, the intergenerational transmission of education, ageing, social protection, the life course approach to social policy and the decline of fertility, with a particular emphasis on the role of policies. In that role she co-authored leading OECD publications such as “Growing Unequal?”, and the various editions of “Pensions at a Glance” and “Pensions Outlook”, among others. Before joining the OECD Anna was a research professor in micro-econometrics applied to labour market/education issues. She has taught and carried out research at the Center for Applied Econometrics (CAM), University of Copenhagen; at the Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA), Catholic University of Leuven; at the Department of Economics, University of Aarhus; at the Center for Research in Integration, Education, Qualifications and Marginalization, of the Aarhus Business School; at the Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), and IRES of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve. She holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Economics (European Doctoral Program) from CORE and IRES (the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve), a Doctorate in Public Economics from the University of Pavia and a Master in Quantitative Economics from CORE.

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Stephen Kemmis

Professor Emeritus, Charles Sturt University

Stephen Kemmis

Stephen Kemmis is Professor Emeritus in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University in Australia. His current research investigates the nature and change of practices, principally in education. He is the originator of a particular form of practice theory: the theory of practice architectures. He has also written extensively on education, critical participatory action research, higher education development, research methodology, and Indigenous education. He is also one of the co-founders of the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis international research network including researchers from Australia, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Colombia and the Caribbean. He is co-author with Wilfred Carr of Becoming Critical: Education, Knowledge and action research (London: Falmer, 1986); with Robin McTaggart and Rhonda Nixon of The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical participatory action research (Singapore: Springer, 2014); with Jane Wilkinson, Christine Edwards-Groves, Ian Hardy, Peter Grootenboer and Laurette Bristol of Changing Practices, Changing Education (Singapore: Springer, 2014); and the author of A Practice Sensibility An invitation to the theory of practice architectures (Singapore: Springer, 2019). He has held appointments at universities in Australia, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom, and has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities in Europe. In addition to his PhD (1976) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2009 he was awarded doctorates honoris causa from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.

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Naveed Hassan Naqvi

Naveed Hassan Naqvi is the World Bank’s Country Manager for Azerbaijan, appointed in October, 2016. Before joining the Bank he taught Economics at the University of Durham (UK), following an earlier career in Pakistan’s Civil Service where he worked in many various districts.

Naveed Hassan Naqvi

Naveed Hassan Naqvi is the World Bank’s Country Manager for Azerbaijan, appointed in October, 2016. Prior to this position Naqvi worked for the Bank in several positions since 2004 in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia. Most recently, he was the Program Leader for the World Bank activities in Central Asia in the following areas: Macro Fiscal Management, Social Protection and Labor, Jobs, Education, Health, Nutrition and Population; and Poverty Reduction. His technical work for the Bank has focused on skill development, innovation and higher education. Before joining the Bank he taught Economics at the University of Durham (UK), following an earlier career in Pakistan’s Civil Service where he worked in several districts in charge of revenue collection, magistracy, law and order administration, local development and service delivery. He has also worked for the private sector as a Highway Planning Engineer. Naqvi holds degrees in Civil Engineering, Economics and Political Science. He obtained his Ph.D from the University of Hull (UK) for his work on Economic Growth. Naveed speaks English, Punjabi, Urdu, and Flemish.

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Mr. Parmosivea Soobrayan

Mr. Parmosivea Soobrayan is Regional Advisor on Education in the UNICEF’s Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia. Mr. Soobrayan is a national of South Africa. His previous working experience of 37 years includes private and public Education sectors in various capacities.

Mr. Parmosivea Soobrayan

In a professional career spanning some 37 years, Bobby has served in various capacities in the private and public sectors. This includes a 10-year stint as an academic and researcher; specializing in Education policy analysis and planning. Before joining UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, he served in the South African government for a total 13 years; 8 of which was at the level of Director General. He also served in various capacities in the private sector and as a consultant; focusing on education policy and planning, organizational turnaround and senior executive training. He is currently UNICEF’s Education Regional Advisor in the Europe and Central Asia Region.

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