Dr. Terri Kim is a Lecturer at Brunel University, and an Associate of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Innovation (CHERI), Open University in the UK. After the completion of her PhD in Comparative Higher Education at the University of London, Institute of Education in 1998, and before joining Brunel in September 2002, she worked as a research consultant for OECD/CERI; a Visiting Research Scholar in International Relations at LSE in London; a Brain Korea 21 Contract Professor at Seoul National University in Korea. She was a Visiting Scholar at the I.E.C., Collège de France in Paris in 2006. Currently, she is an editorial board member of 'Gender and Education' international journal, and the International Convener of the Higher Education Thematic Group for the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). Her research interests include international politics, historical sociology, neoliberal economic globalisation, civilisation, colonisation and neoliberalism, higher education policy, governance, management and organisational change, European HE areas, international academic recruitment policy and practice, transnational academic mobility, networks of knowledge and centres of knowledge production, and intercultural identities, communities of practice in globalisation higher education. She received the CESE Women's Network Prize for Excellence in presenting a best comparative research paper at the XXII CESE (Comparative Education Society in Europe) Conference held in Granada, 2006. She is the author of Forming the Academic Profession in East Asia: a Comparative Analysis (Book based on her doctoral thesis published by Routledge in New York and London in 2001), and many articles published internationally in the field of comparative higher education - including the most recent article, 'Transnational Academic Mobility in a Global Knowledge Economy', which has been published in The World Yearbook of Education 2008 Geography of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education (London: Routledge). She is currently working as Guest Editor of the IAIE Journal, Intercultural Education, Special Issue on 'Interculturality and Higher Education' (forthcoming in March 2009).