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Professor of Comparative Higher Education, Honorary full professor at UEL and Academic Visitor at St Antony's College, Oxford, University of East London

Terri Kim (PhD London) is Professor of Comparative Higher Education (honorary full professor) at UEL; Academic Visitor at St Antony's College, Oxford; Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Education; and a Principal Fellow of Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). She holds an MA and PhD from the UCL Institute of Education and previously she was a postdoctoral visiting scholar in International Relations at LSE; visiting scholar at the Collège de France in Paris, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Monash University in Melbourne. She is a co-convenor of the SRHE Policy Network; the Book Reviews Editor of Comparative Education; and a member of the Editorial Board of four major international journals: Comparative Education; Intercultural Education; British Journal of Educational Studies; and Policy Reviews in Higher Education. She has published one book and over 50 articles internationally in the field of comparative higher education. Her long-term (and ongoing) research has been on transnational academic mobility/migration, knowledge and identity capital. She has co-led an Advance HE / Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE)-funded research project on 'Tracking the Impact of BME Leadership Development Programme' as a two-year longitudinal study. Many of her invited talks [71 invitations - including 31 plenary/keynote lectures in 22 countries] and international publications have taken into account the future directions and strategic needs of Governments, international agencies, and policy think tanks – e.g. OECD, UNESCO-UNEVOC, EMN (European Migration Network), Academia Europaea, UKCGE (UK Council for Graduate Education), Public Policy Exchange, University World News, QS Aim, etc. She chaired the Public Policy Exchange events (i) the Public Policy Exchange event on ‘Considering the Future of Higher Education in post-Brexit Britain:
Assessing Challenges and Opportunities’, 8 November 2017; and (ii) Overcoming Challenges for International Student Recruitment: Retaining the UK's Position as a Leading Destination held on 18th April 2018.

Honours

Yonsei University 100 Future Women Leaders Prize