Liviu Matei#
| Membership Number: | 5950 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-liviu-matei |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Professor, Head of School - King’s College London
- 2021 - 2022 established and directed the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom
- 2020 - 2022 Vice-Chancellor - Open Society University Network
- 2021 - 2022 Acting Rector - Central European University Budapest
- 2014 - 2022 Provost, Professor - Central European University Budapest and Vienna
- 2010 - 2021 Director, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education
- 2009 - 2014 Visiting Lecturer - Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
- 2008 - 2014 Professor, Senior Vice President - Central European University Budapest
- 2000 - 2008 Academic Secretary - Central European University Budapest
- 1991 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Lecturer - Babes-Bolyai University
- 1997 - 1998 Director General, Ministry of Education Romania
- 1990 - 1993 Program Director, Underprivileged Roma Communities in Transylvania, Médecins Sans Frontières
Fields of Scholarship
- Politics of higher education
- Higher education governance
- Funding of higher education
- Academic freedom
- Quality assurance in higher education
- Higher education policy
- History of higher education
- Internationalisation of higher education
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - 2019; Chair, Committee for the Revitalisation of the University of Yangon, Myanmar
- 2021 - present; Chair, Selection Committee, European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Fellowships:
- New School University New York
- Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris
- Salzburg Seminar
