!!Liviu Matei - Biography
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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 served as Provost and Professor of Higher Education Policy at Central European University, directed the Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education, and founded the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom. After 2015 he conducted extensive research on the crisis of academic freedom and took part in major policy efforts in this area in Europe, Asia and globally. He taught at universities in Europe and the U.S., consulted and conducted applied policy research projects for the World Bank, UNESCO, OSCE, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Nordic Council of Ministers, other international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, national authorities and universities from Europe and Asia. He is a founding Vice-Chancellor of OSUN -the Open Society University Network, and a founding member of the Steering Committee of CIVICA - the European University of Social Sciences. 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: Policy and Practice, and the European Journal of Higher Education. He studied philosophy, history and psychology at Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, and Sociology of Higher Education at Bucharest University, Romania. He received his PhD from the latter. He benefited from fellowships at the Institut Supérieur de Formation Sociale et de Communication, Bruxelles, The New School for Social Research, Université Paris X Nanterre, Université de Savoie, the Salzburg Seminar and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. His primary areas of expertise include university governance, funding, internationalization of higher education, academic freedom and university autonomy, and quality assurance.\\ \\