Mario Novelli Editor & Author

Xavier Bonal is Full Professor of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Special Professor of Education and International Development at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is the director of the research group Globalisation, Education and Social Policies (GEPS) at the UAB and Coordinator of the GLOBED Project, an Erasmus Mundus Master on Education Policies for Global Development.

Eve Coxon is Associate Professor in the School of Critical Studies in Education at the University of Auckland. A central focus of her work is the role of educational aid in enhancing equitable and sustainable ‘education for development’.

Mario Novelli is Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Sussex, and Director of the Centre for International Education (CIE). Drawing on the tools of critical political economy, his work explores the relationship between education systems and armed conflict; the relationship between education and processes of globalization; and learning and knowledge production in trade union, social movements and civil society organizations.

Antoni Verger is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research focuses on the study of the relationship between global governance institutions and education policy, with a focus on the study of public-private partnerships, education privatization and accountability policies in education.