King’s College London
Liviu Matei is professor of higher education and public policy and head of the School of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College London. He has taught at universities in Europe and the United States, consulted extensively in higher education policy and conducted applied policy research projects for the World Bank, UNESCO, OSCE, the Council of Europe, the European Commission and, other international intergovernmental and non-governmental organization as well as; for national authorities and universities in Europe and Asia. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Central Asia and serves on the editorial boards of the Internationalisation of Higher Education Journal and the European Journal of Higher Education. His primary areas of expertise include university governance, funding, internationalisation of higher education, academic freedom and university autonomy and quality assurance. He founded the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom.