Karen Mundy is a Professor of Comparative and International Education in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto (cross-appointed to the Munk School of Global and Public Affairs) and a leading expert on education in the developing world. As Chief Technical Officer at the Global Partnership for Education (2014–2018), before returning to the University of Toronto, the world’s largest global fund providing more than $500 million per year to 67 developing countries, she led the development of GPE’s Strategic Plan 2015-2020, its Gender Equality Strategy, its Results Framework, Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy (2015-2020), and the publication of GPE’s first two Results Reports. At the University of Toronto, Dr. Mundy has been a Canada Research Chair (2002-2012) and the Associate Dean of Research and Innovation (2012-2014). She was the President of the Comparative and International Education Society (2014-2015). Her research has covered the global politics of “education for all”; educational policy and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa; and the role of civil society organisations in educational change. She has published six books and more than five dozen articles and book chapters and is a contributor to dozens of policy papers and reports. She is a two-time winner of the Bereday award for best article in the Comparative Education Review (1998, 2015).
