Maia Chankseliani (EdM Harvard, PhD Cambridge) is Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford. She leads a flagship master’s course at the Department of Education – MSc in Comparative and International Education. Maia Chankseliani’s research on tertiary education – higher education, university-based research, and VET/apprenticeships – focuses on the societal, institutional, and policy processes that shape tertiary education and the potential of tertiary education and research for transforming societies. Maia Chankseliani has worked on a number of externally funded research projects and consultancies involving the UK Government agencies responsible for education and skills, UKRI/ESRC, World Bank, British Council, Qatar Foundation, USAID, UNICEF, the European Commission. Maia Chankseliani is Associate Editor of International Journal of Educational Research. She serves on the editorial board of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.