F King Alexander is President and Chancellor of Louisiana State University (L.S.U.) and will become the new president of Oregon State University beginning on July 1, 2020. Dr. Alexander earlier served as President of California State University, Long Beach and President of Murray State University. In his present capacity at L.S.U. Dr. Alexander oversees over 50,000 students on five campuses, as well as two medical schools.

Dr. Alexander holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master of Science degree from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts degree for St. Lawrence University, New York. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and as Director of Development at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

He served as Faculty Affiliate in the Institute of Higher Education Cornell University, and as a Faculty Affiliate in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Among his honors of which he is most proud, he was voted California State University President of the Year in both 2010 and 2012 by California State Universities Students’ Association (CSSA), representing 450,000 students in 23 state universities of California.

Concerning his attachments to Oxford, Dr. Alexander is a Foundation Fellow at Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford, has served on the Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee for Illinois, and during his days as a student at Oxford, he rowed for his college, St Peters and was awarded an “Oxford Blue” in men’s basketball.

 Dr Richard Pring has for many years, been recognised as one of the preeminent scholars of education in the UK. Dr Pring served as Director of the Department of Educational Studies at Oxford University. He has served as the Lead Director of the Nuffield Review for Education and Training. His research interests include :

• Philosophy of Education
• Review of Education and Training (Nuffield Foundation funded)
• Faith-based schools (arising from the Leverhulme Fellowship, 2003/4, and work with the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations).

Dr Craig Wood is one of the leading scholars in the field of financing public education in America. He is a Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Florida.

Topic: The New Wave of Financing and Privatizing Public Elementary and Secondary Education in the United States:  Tax Policies, Charter Schools, and Vouchers

Dr Kern Alexander is O’Leary Endowed Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, author of many books and articles including the leading textbook on education law in the United States, American Public School Law, 8^th Edition, Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. His latest book is Public School Finance; Theory and Practice, 2015, published by Routledge/Taylor Francis. He is Editor of the Journal of Education Finance, distributed by University of Illinois Press.

Topic:  Vouchers, Charter Schools, and the Road to Privatization of Education in America

Dr Terezinha Nunes is Professor of Educational Studies, University of Oxford and Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She is a psychologist specializing in childhood development and learning and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development. She is a highly regarded educational researcher and the author of an extensive array of articles in learned journals.  Most recently her books, have centered on child literacy, published by several major publishing houses including Wiley-Blackwell, London; Routledge, London and Kluwer, The Netherlands.

Topic: Childhood Literacy–The Promise of Tomorrow.

Dr Ian Menter is Professor Emeritus, Department of Education, Oxford University and past President of the British Education Research Association (BERA)   and former President of the Scottish Education Research Association (SERA).

Topic: The Status of Education Reform in the United Kingdom

Dr Ken Mayhew is Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

He is currently a member of the UK Armed Forces Pay Review Body and an Extraordinary Professor at Maastricht University. He was the founding Director of SKOPE, a multi-disciplinary centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, based in the Oxford Department of Education.