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Educational Background
2004 Dr. h.c. of Education, Mongolian State University of Education, Ulaanbaatar (honorary doctoral degree)
1983 Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of Zürich, Switzerland [Dr.phil.I]
1979 M.A. Social Psychology University of Zürich, Switzerland [lic.phil.I]
Majors: Social Psychology and Mathematical-Biological PsychologyMinors: Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
1975 High school degree, branch: humanities, Holbeingymnasium Basel, Switzerland
Scholarly Interests
- Policy borrowing and lending
- Globalization studies
- Comparative policy studies
- School reform and teacher policy
- Development and education
Selected Publications
Books
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (2025). Time in education policy transfer. The seven temporalities of global school reform. New York: Palgrave (open access). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-82524-8
Baek, Chanwoong and Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, eds. (2024). The rise of knowledge brokers in global education governance. Cheltenham: E. Elgar Publishing (open access): https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035326426
Karseth, Berit, Sivesind, Kerstin and Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, eds. (2022). Evidence and expertise in Nordic education policy. A comparative network analysis. New York: Palgrave (open access). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91959-7
Gorur, Radhika, Sellar, Sam and Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, eds. (2019). Comparative methodology in an era of big data and global networks. World Yearbook of Education 2019. London and New York: Routledge.
Waldow, Florian and Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, eds. (2019). Understanding PISA’s Attractiveness: Critical Analyses in Comparative Policy Studies. London: Bloomsbury.
Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo, Steiner-Khamsi, Gita and Thompson, Christiane, eds. (2018). Researching the global education industry. New York: Palgrave.
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita & Draxler, Alexandra, eds. (2018). The state, business, and education: Public-private partnerships revisited. Cheltenham, UK: E. Elgar Publishing (open access).
Verger, Antoni, Lubienski, Christopher & Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, eds (2016). The Global Education Industry. World Yearbook of Education 2016. London and New York: Routledge.
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita & Waldow, Florian, eds (2012). Policy Borrowing and Lending. World Yearbook of Education 2012. London and New York: Routledge.
Chisholm, Linda & Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, eds (2009). South-South Cooperation in Education and Development. New York and Capetown, South Africa: Teachers College Press and HRSC Press.
Silova, Iveta & Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, eds (2008). How NGOs React. Globalization and Education Reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita & Stolpe, Ines (2006). Educational Import in Mongolia: Local Encounters with Global Forces. New York: Palgrave Macmillan [also translated into Mongolian, Edmon Press, Ulaanbaatar].
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, ed. (2004). The Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending. New York: Teachers College Press.
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, Torney-Purta, Judith & Schwille, John, eds (2002). New Paradigms and Recurring Paradoxes in Education for Citizenship: An International Comparison. Oxford: Elsevier Science.
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (1992). Multikulturelle Bildungspolitik in der Postmoderne [Multicultural Educational Policy in Postmodernity]. Opladen: Leske & Budrich.
Biographical Information
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education. She also holds the honorary UNESCO Chair of Comparative Education Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland. Her scholarly interests include comparative policy studies, policy borrowing/lending, teacher policy and school reform, globalization theories, case-study methodology, strategic planning, and evaluation research. Professor Steiner-Khamsi published widely, including 15 books. The most recent book is entitled Time in Education Policy Transfer. The Seven Temporalities of Global School Reform. The book is available as an open-access publication here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-82524-8.
She is the Research Lead for the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) hub for the Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Asia and Pacific (EMAP) region, based at NORRAG in Geneva. KIX EMAP surfaces, amplifies and disseminates knowledge of national policy experts from over 40 countries of the Global South. The seven-year project, spanning 2020-2027, is funded by the Global Partnership for Education and administered globally by the International Development Research Centre. Periodically, she conducts analytical work related to school reform with the Asian Development Bank, European Union, Open Society Foundations, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, UNICEF, USAID, and the World Bank, with a focus on Mongolia and Central Asia. She was an editor of the World Yearbook of Education, president of the Comparative and International Education Society, and Academic Director of NORRAG. NORRAG is a global network of over 6,000 researchers, policymakers, NGO advocates, and government representatives who are committed to knowledge equity, as evidenced in the initiative #TheSouthAlsoKnows. Prior to joining the faculty at Teachers College, she worked for close to ten years as a policy analyst for Ministry of Education of Zurich/Switzerland. She teaches in the cluster Global Governance, Policy, and Planning of the program in International and Comparative Education.
She is the recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Mongolian National University of Education. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
Current Research
Policy borrowing and lending in school reform
Sociological systems-theory
Public-private partnership in education
Global governance
Transnational accreditation in public schools
See my personal website for ongoing research projects
Doctoral Dissertations Sponsored
Please see Proquest Digital Dissertations for the list of sponsored dissertations (over 60 PhDs and EdDs)