CIS Global Forum ON INTERNATIONAL ADMISSION & GUIDANCE - Keynote

Dirk Van Damme (PhD, Ghent University, Belgium) was Senior Counsellor in the Directorate for Education and Skills at the OECD in Paris, and Head of the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation.

Before joining the OECD in 2008, he was professor of educational research (Ghent University, Belgium) and comparative education (Free University of Brussels, Belgium; Seton Hall University, NJ, USA), counsellor for several Flemish education ministers (1992-2000), General Director of the Flemish Rectors’ Conference VLIR (2000-2003), and chief of staff of Flemish education minister Frank Vandenbroucke (2004-2008). He published extensively on education policy and evaluation and was a board member and expert to various quality assurance agencies and international organisations. 

His personal interests are the science of learning, comparative analyses of educational systems, lifelong learning, governance in education, and the use of research in education policy and practice. He is now an independent consultant, as well as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Curriculum Redesign in Boston, MA, USA, and board member of the National Growth Fund  in the Netherlands.