Vice-President
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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Cathryn Magno is Professor of Education Sciences at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where she teaches a range of courses in the Globalization and Education specialization, such as comparative education, international education policy, human rights education and migration and education. Her three main research areas include gender, migration and leadership and governance, along with thinking and publishing on qualitative/postqualitative research methods. She currently serves as Co-Editor of European Education: Issues and Studies with Noah Sobe. Her books include New Pythian voices: Women building political capital in NGOs in the Middle East (2002) and Comparative perspectives on international school leadership: Policy, preparation and practice (2013) along with editing a recent volume, (Re)Mapping migration and education: Centering methods and methodologies, with Jamie Lew and Sophia Rodriguez (2022). She has published in numerous comparative and other education journals including Comparative Education Review, Compare, International Journal of Educational Development, Globalisation, Societies and Education, Intercultural Education, Health Care for Women International, Girlhood Studies, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership and International Journal of Academic Development and she directs an ongoing comparative education project in the form of an open source learning website called the Comparative Educational Leadership Lab. She has been a longstanding member of the CIES and has enjoyed being a member of CESE for nearly a decade.