Prof. Olena Lokshyna, Dr. Sc., Head of the Department of Comparative Education, Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. Research interests focus on developmental trends and innovations in education in Ukraine and abroad through the lens of comparison, with special interest in reforms, curricula, competences, students’ assessment, education quality monitoring, VET, methodology of comparative education research, education policy analyses. Olena Lokshyna is an author/co-author of about 300 works – monographs and analytical studies, textbooks and course outlines, journal papers and conference abstracts. She teaches courses on comparative and international education for PhD students at the Institute of Pedagogy and at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Ukrainian Pedagogical Journal, Education Modern Discourses Journal and Studies in Comparative Education Journal.