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Mark Ginsburg
Academy for Educational Development
United States

Senior technical advisor for research and evaluation at the Academy for Educational Development (USA) and coeditor of the Comparative Education Review. He previously was a faculty member at the University of Aston in Birmingham (England, 1976-1978), the University of Houston (Texas, USA, 1978-1987), and the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA, 1987-2004). He directed the Faculties of Education Reform project of the USAID-funded Educational Reform Program in Egypt (2004-2006). He has published extensively on topics of policy/institutional reform, teachers/teacher education, and policy/practice-oriented research and evaluation.

Nagwa Megahed
Ain Shams University
Egypt

Assistant Professor at Ain Shams University in Egypt. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence for Middle Eastern Cultural and Language Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. Prior to that, she worked as a Senior Technical Advisor for Research and Evaluation at USAID-Funded Education Reform Program in Egypt in cooperation with Michigan State University and the Academy for Educational Development. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, where she also served as a Graduate Student Researcher in the Institute for International Studies in Education, working on projects related to educational reform and teacher education. She has published articles and book chapters on the reform of educational policy and practices, teacher education and work, gender inequality, and Islam and education.

Mohammed Elmeski
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
United States

Ph.D. student in the Comparative and International Education Program, Department of Educational Policy and Administration, College of Human Development and Education, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. A Moroccan, he has taught Arabic and English as a Second Language. His research interests include educational policy, complementary education, and girls' education.

Nobuyuki Tanaka
Kobe University
Japan

Ph.D. candidate at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University (Japan) and a consultant for the World Bank (USA). His dissertation topic is access and equity of higher education in Egypt. He previously was field researcher and project coordinator at Mitsubishi Research Institute (Egypt, 2008-2009), and a visiting scholar at the Academy for Educational Development (USA, 2007-2008). He has published on topics of education and labor market. He also has several field experiences such as Ghana and Yemen.