N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba

N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center and Director of the Institute for African Development (IAD) at Cornell University. She is currently President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformation (MOST) program, and Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. Her authored, edited and co-edited books include: Cyberspace, Distance Learning, and Higher Education in Developing Countries: Old and Emergent Issues of Access, Pedagogy and Knowledge Production (2004); Women and Higher Education in Africa: Reconceptualizing Gender-Based Human Capabilities and Upgrading Human Rights to Knowledge (2007); Re-visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity (2018); Education and the Development of Human Capital: Outcomes for Equity and Governance in Africa (2020).