Draft:Maia Chankseliani

Maia Chankseliani is a Georgian-British educationalist and Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford. She is a Governing Body Fellow at St Edmund Hall.

Early life and education
Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, Chankseliani earned her BA in English Philology from Tbilisi State University, and Ed. M in International Education Policy from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Cambridge.

Career
Chankseliani has authored four books in comparative and international education: What Happened to the Soviet University? (2022), Building Research Capacity at Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries (2022), Comparing Post-Socialist Transformations: Purposes, Policies, and Practices in Education (2018), and Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice (2013).

At Oxford, Chankseliani convenes the Comparative and International Education Research Group and leads a master’s course in Comparative and International Education. She is the founder and convener of Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education.

Chankseliani serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Research, and is on the editorial board of Higher Education.

Awards and recognition
Chankseliani is Chair of the Higher Education SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), serves on the Executive Committee of UK’s Education and Development Forum (UKFIET), and is part of the College of Reviewers at the British Educational Research Association (BERA).