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Professor Melanie Ehren is a professor in educational governance at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with previous roles at University College London and visiting professorships at Harvard and Columbia universities. She combines a strong disciplinary background in educational and school effectiveness with a comparative approach to understanding outcomes of education systems (such as accountability, evaluation, peer review). She is a member of the board of ICSEI, the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, and has worked with various international organisations, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the European Union. As the chair of the programme committee of the Dutch research council she is actively involved in the Dutch science for policy programme.