Karen Mundy


Karen Mundy

Bio and Research Interests

Karen Mundy is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.  Professor Mundy’s award-winning research is focused on the work of international organizations and transnational actors in education, and on educational reform and educational leadership in the global south.  She has served as President of the Comparative Education Society (2014-2015) and as Chief Technical Officer of the Global Partnership for Education (2014-2018).   She was a member of the UNESCO International Commission on the Futures of Education which prepared the report “Re-imagining our futures together: Towards a new social contract for education”. Her early career was spent as a teacher, researcher and consultant in East and Southern Africa. 

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