Members of the RESL.eu Scientific and Policy Committee
The following academics, practitioiners and policy makers have accepted to be a member of the RESL.eu Scientific and Policy Committee:
Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Marcelo Suarez-Orozco is Dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS). His research focuses on conceptual and empirical problems in the areas of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with a focus on the study of mass migration, globalization and education. He is the author of numerous scholarly essays, award-winning books and edited volumes published by Harvard University Press, Stanford University Press, the University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, and New York University Press; and scholarly papers in a range of disciplines and languages in international journals.
Irene Psifidou, VET expert, Cedefop
Irene Psifidou joined Cedefop, the European Agency for the development of Vocational Education and training (VET) in Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2004. In her capacity as VET expert, she is in charge of analysing, monitoring and evaluating education and training policies and programmes related to the implementation of the EU lifelong learning programme and more particularly, the European Qualifications Framework and learning outcomes approaches in VET provision, in close collaboration with the European Commission, stakeholders and networks at national and European levels.
Catherine Pérotin, French Education Institute
Cathérine Pérotin works at the French institute ‘Institut Français de l’éducation’. She is the head of the ‘Education Quality Agency’.
Ilko Yordanov, Open Society Institute, Sofia - Bulgaria
Ilko Yordanov is educational policy researcher in Expert Analyses Group and Open Society Institute – Sofia. Since 2003 he has worked on Bulgarian education reform in the field of: decentralization, school drop-out and early school leaving, VET and work-force development, early childhood development, introduction of delegated budgets system, parents’ participation in the school life, teachers’ qualification and professional development and quality assurance, evaluation, monitoring and transparency of education services. He has accumulated experience as project coordinator and expert on educational projects and surveys designing, implementation and reporting supported by: the World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, University of Cambridge, PHARE-LIEN Programme of the EU, Human Resources Operative Program, Research Support Scheme, the Open Society Institute – Sofia, the Open Society Institute – Budapest, the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative – Open Society Institute, Azerbaijan National Research Association, Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, Ministry of Finance and the Bulgarian government.
Ilko Yordanov was appointed by the minister of education, youth and science as a member of the working group for drafting the Concept of the Law for Preschool and School Education, and member of the working group for drafting the State Educational Standard on School Organizational Development and Quality Management at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science and for a member of the Monitoring committee of the project BG051PO001-3.1.06 "Improving the quality of education in focal schools by introducing a whole-day school approach" funded with 90 mln. euro by the Operational Program "Human Resources Development" (2011-2014).
Since 2011 Ilko Yordanov has been active member of the International Thematic Working Group on Early School Leaving, European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture Lifelong Learning; Education and Training, Programmes and Actions.
Louise Elffers, Research Institute of Child Development and Education
Louise Elffers works as an educational researcher at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University. In 2011, she obtained her PhD in educational sciences from the University of Amsterdam, with a dissertation on students' engagement, attainment and dropout after the transition to post-secondary vocational education. Her research interests relate to social and academic determinants of school success and dropout, educational (in)equality, school organization and educational policy. She is currently involved in setting up the 'Academische Werkplaats Onderwijs' (Academic Workplace Education), a joint initiative of Maastricht University and the Dutch Education Inspectorate. In the Academische Werkplaats Onderwijs, research is initiated, carried out, evaluated and discussed in close cooperation and continuous dialogue with the educational field. As of 1 august 2015, she is a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, and as of 1 September 2015 she is also teaching at the Amsterdam Hogeschool.
Peter Van Petegem, University of Antwerp
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Dimokritos Kavadias, University of Antwerp & Free University Brussels
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