EDUARDO APONTE UNESCO Chair in Higher Education at the Higher Education Research Centre, University of Puerto Rico and Advisor to the Puerto Rican Council on EducationAKIRA ARIMOTO Professor, Sociology of Education, Comparative Higher Education and Sociology of Science, Research Institute for Higher Education, Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, JapanFAHIMA CHARAFEDDINE Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lebanon, Beirut and Secretary General of the Arabic Association of SociologyAXEL DIDRIKSON Director of the Centre of Studies about the University (CESU), Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), MexicoMIGUEL ÁNGEL ESCOTET Director of the Institute of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education at University of Deusto, Bilbao, SpainSONIA FERNANDEZ LAURO Chief of the Information and Documentation Service of UNESCO (Education Sector)CARMEN GARCÍA-GUADILLA Professor and Director at the Centre for Development Studies, Venezuelan Central UniversityGEORGES HADDAD Director of the Higher Education Division, UNESCOARTHUR M. HAUPTMAN Consultant who has published extensively on Higher Education FinanceALMA HERRERA Professor at CESU, Universidad Autònoma de México (UNAM), MexicoBRUCE JOHNSTONE University Professor of Higher and Comparative Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USAJANE KNIGHT Adjunct Professor at the Comparative International Development EducationCentre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, CanadaFRANCISCO LÓPEZ-SEGRERA Author and Former Director of UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC)ALMA MALDONADO Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona, USAMICHAELA MARTIN Programme Specialist in Higher Education Policy, Planning and Management at UNESCO's International Institute for Educational PlanningJESÚS M. de MIGUEL Professor at the University of Barcelona, SpainJAN SADLAK Director of UNESCO-European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES) in Bucharest, RomaniaJAMIL SALMI Deputy Director of the World Bank's Education Department and Co-ordinator of the World Bank's network of tertiary education professionalsBIKAS SANYAL formerly Director of Programmes on Higher Education, International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) of UNESCO in Paris, FranceDAMTEW TEFERRA Assistant Professor (Research) of Higher Education at the Centre for International Higher Education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College, USAJANDHYALA B. G. TILAK Senior Fellow and Head of the Educational Finance Unit, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New DelhiJOAQUIM TRES Executive Director of GUNIALEX USHER Vice-President (Research) and Director (Canada) of the Educational Policy Institute (EPI)MAUREEN WOODHALL Emeritus Reader in Educational Finance,Institute of Education, University of London, UK, and Visiting Fellow of the School of Education, University of Sussex and the School of Education and Lifelong Learning , University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK