Steering Committee - EDUCATION DEANS

GNDE STEERING COMMITTEE

The Steering Committee members of the Global Network of Deans of Education
(2019 - current):

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Irma Eloff (Chair of GNDE, Founder of African Deans of Education Forum
and former Dean of Education at the University of Pretoria)

Margery McMahon (Deputy Chair of GNDE and former Head of the School of Education
at the University of Glasgow and former Chair of the Scottish Council of Deans of Education)

Douglas McCall (Coordinator of GNDE, Executive Director, International School Health Network)

Lace-Marie Brogden (Dean of Education, St. Francis Xavier University
and President, Association of Canadian Deans of Education

Susan Ledger (Dean of Education, University of Newcastle and Specialist Member,
Australian Council of Deans of Education)

A.Lin Goodwin (Former Dean of Education, The University of Hong Kong and
Thomas More Brennan Chair of Education
at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College)

Stefanie Sullivan (Deputy Head of School, University of Nottingham and
Chair of the UK Universities Council for the Education of Teachers)

Zoe Robertson (Dean of Education, University of Edinburgh, Chair of the Scottish Council of Deans of Education)

Suzanne Kapelari (Dean of Education, University of Innsbruck)

Katy Ellsworth (Executive Director of the Association of Canadian Deans of Education)

SPECIAL ADVISORS:

INTERSECTORAL COLLABORATION:
Lorena Medina (Dean emeritus and professor, Facultad de Educación, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
and former Chair of the Latin American Network of Deans of Education)

EDUCATOR PREPARATION
Lynn Gangone (Former President and CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, AACTE)

STRATEGY & EQUITY:
John Fischetti (Pro-Vice Chancellor Education and Arts, University of Newcastle, Australia)

UNESCO TEACHER TASK FORCE LIAISON:
William Gaudelli (Senior Vice Provost for Innovation in Education and
Dean on Assignment of the College of Education at Lehigh University)

EDUCATION POLICY & EQUITY:
Daniel Laitsch (Dean of Education and Founding Director,
Centre for the Study of Educational Leadership and Policy, Simon Fraser University)

SCHOOL-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS
Angela Fitzgerald, Executive Dean, Faculty of Education at the Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE

Education in a Globalized World - Some Selected Items (See our updated list)

The UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
education is not only described in Goal #4 but throughout all the other goals and where education has been described by the UN Secretary General and others as the central vehicle for their achievement

The Education Workforce Initiative of the Education Commission on financing led by Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy on Education

UNESCO Activities, including monitoring of education through its Institute for Statistics, the International Task Force on Teachers and the 2030 Framework for Action arising from the 2015 Incheon Declaration endorsed by member states as well as the status of K-12 teachers and post-secondary educators and the annual Global Education Monitoring Report

OECD Activities including the Education 2030 initiative on competency-based curricula, the OECD Education at a Glance reporting on the state of education around the world and the expanding use of the PISA report in policy-making

World Bank Activities including monitoring and influencing of education quality through its funding and SABER systems monitoring