EIESP

	Jean Gordon is the Director of the Institute which she joined in 1989. She has wide experience in the comparison and analysis of education policies and systems throughout Europe and in the partner countries of the EU. Much of her work in recent years has focused on the development, analysis and dissemination of education and training policy at European level as well as in specific countries, regions and sectors. She is specialised in the development of lifelong learning opportunities through improving access to learning and its recognition, individualising pathways, transparency of qualifications in Europe, and developing qualification frameworks (at EU and national levels). She has undertaken many Europe-wide studies, including for the EU Commission, for all sub-sectors of education and training systems, on lifelong learning strategies and on a range of themes (such as learning outcomes, parity of esteem, mobility). In 2007 she was one of the authors of a 32 country study commissioned by the European Commission on how learning outcomes are integrated into education policy making in Europe for formal, non-formal and informal education. She specialises in formative and qualitative monitoring and evaluation of innovative projects and of education systems and programmes. Jean has undertaken projects in the EU Member States, the candidate countries as well as in the Western Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa and also in Central Asia . She is Joint Editor of the European Journal of Education for which she has designed and/or coordinated issues on futures of learning, intercultural dialogue, equal opportunities, internationalisation of education, qualifications frameworks, access to lifelong learning, well-being and education, etc. She is a member of the French education management organisation, the Association Française des Administrateurs de l'Education and on the editorial board of Administration et Education . She coordinates the work undertaken by the EIESP for the Universal Education Foundation the vision of which is to achieve “education by all for the well-being of children” and its purpose is to inspire and engage people from all sectors of society to listen more to children and young people and to take initiatives to make their learning environments more conducive to their well-being. Gordon@dauphine.fr
	Céleste GIRARD is a research assistant. ieepsrecherche@dauphine.fr

	Christina Keyes joined the Institute in 1996 as Assistant Editor to the European Journal of Education. She worked for many years at the International Association of Universities where she collaborated on the Bulletin of the Association. Moreover, she prepared chapters for UNESCO's World Guide to Higher Education, wrote several chapters for the Encyclopaedia of Higher Education, edited by Burton Clark and Guy Neave and published by Pergamon Press in the United Kingdom, and collaborated on the World Academic Database, published by Macmillan. Christina KEYES obtained a Maîtrise d'Anglais at the University Paris VII and a Licence d'Histoire de l'Art at the University Paris I, as well as an admissibilité to the CAPES. She is fluent in French, English with working knowledge of Spanish. eje@dauphine.fr
	François-Xavier Chevrier is the Administrative and Research Assistant at the EIESP which he joined in 2000. He has worked in the education sector in France and for the University of Birmingham (UK). He also has experience in continuing education in France (GRETA, CUCES) and participated in the organisation of several cultural exchanges in Europe.François-Xavier Chevrier studied in the USA, the UK, Portugal and France. He obtained his BA in Languages and Business at the University of Wolverhampton (UK) and his Masters in Politics/European Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK). He undertook post-graduate studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in History and at the University of Nancy (France) where he studied Management. François-Xavier Chevrier is fluent in French, English and Portuguese. ieeps@dauphine.fr

	*The trainees :*

	Name: Marcela TOVAR (Colombian) Date of stage : April to July 2007 Post graduate course followed: “Expertise et Coopération en Education et Formation” (Université Paris V René Descartes) Dissertation:
	Name: Céleste GIRARD (French) Date of stage : April to July 2007 Post graduate course followed: “Expertise et Coopération en Education et Formation” (Université Paris V René Descartes) Dissertation:
	Name: Laurence TESNIERE (French) Date of stage : January to April 2005 Post graduate course followed: « Appui aux Personnels et aux Etablissements d'Education » Université de Bourgogne.
	Name: Daniela KOKANOVA (Slovakian) Date of stage : April to July 2005 Post graduate course followed: “Expertise et Coopération en Education et Formation” (Université Paris V René Descartes) Dissertation: Orientation scolaire en république slovaque (Etude comparée) Following her stage at the EIESP, she undertook a stage at CEDEFOP. She has returned to Slovakia to take up a post in the Ministry of Education.
	Name: Berwyn DAVIES (British ) Date of stage : May to June 2004 Post graduate course followed: “European Public Affairs” at the University of Maastricht Following his stage at the EIESP, he taught at the University of Maastricht and since August 2006 he has been working for Higher Education Wales in Brussels .
	Name : Olga DAVYDOVSKAIA ( Belarus ) Date of stage : April to July 2004 Post graduate course followed: “Expertise et Coopération en Education et Formation” (Université Paris V René Descartes) Dissertation: La modernisation de l'enseignement supérieur en Russie. La Russie dans l'espace européen de l'Enseignement Supérieur. Following her stage at the EIESP, she undertook stages at UNESCO and at the Directorate General for Education and Culture at the European Commission. She has been working for DG EAC in Brussels since 2006.
	Name: Anne REVAULT (French) Date of stage : April to June 2003 Post graduate course followed: “Expertise et Coopération en Education et Formation” (Université Paris V René Descartes) Dissertation: L'éducation en Afrique sub-saharienne francophone et Anglophone: le cas des filles.
	Name: Amandine RIBE (French) Date of stage : April to June 2003 Post graduate course followed: “Expertise et Coopération en Education et Formation” (Université Paris V René Descartes) Dissertation: La scolarisation des enfants handicapés
	Name: Isabelle LIBERT (French) Date of stage : April to July 2001 Post graduate course followed: “Expertise et Coopération en Education et Formation” (Université Paris V René Descartes) Dissertation: Coopération internationale et réformes des systèmes de formation professionnelle : Un projet en Asie centrale Following her stage at the EIESP, she was employed at the EIESP as a research associate from January 2002 to February 2006.