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GNDE STEERING COMMITTEE

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



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

Douglas McCall (Interim Co-ordinator of GNDE, Executive Director, International School Health Network)

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

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

​A.Lin Goodwin (Dean of Education, The University of Hong Kong)

Michael Owen (Dean and professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University)

Lorena Medina (Dean and professor, Facultad de Educación, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

David R Smith (Chair of the Scottish Council of Deans of Education)

​James Noble-Rogers (Executive Director of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers)

Tania Aspland (President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education
and Dean of Education Policy and Strategy at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney)


David Templeman (Executive Director, Australian Council of Deans of Education)

Catherine Bruce (President of the Association of Canadian Deans of Education and Dean of Education, Teaching and Learning at Trent University, Canada)

Chinaka Domnwachukwu (Dean at College of Education, California State University)

Kirk Anderson (Dean of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Director Teach for Canada)

Daniel Laitsch (Founding Director, Centre for the Study of Educational Leadership and Policy, Simon Fraser University)





 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