 Professor Dennis Shirley
Dennis Shirley’s educational work spans from the nitty-gritty micro-level of assisting beginning teachers to the macro-level of designing and guiding large-scale research and intervention projects for school districts, states, provinces, and nonprofit agencies. Collaborating with Andy Hargreaves, Shirley co-authored The Fourth Way: The Inspiring Future for Educational Change (Corwin, 2009). For five years Shirley has led a teacher inquiry project along with Boston Public Schools teacher leader Elizabeth MacDonald; their research has appeared in The Mindful Teacher (Teachers College Press, 2009). Shirley has advised the Ministry of Education in Tokyo, Japan; the Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart, Germany; the Ministry of Education in Johannesburg, South Africa; and the Scholars Forum of the Public Education Network in Washington, DC. He has led three major school improvement efforts and his research has been translated into German, Spanish, Swedish, and French. He holds a doctoral degree from Harvard University.
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 Dr Brenda Beatty
Brenda is director and designer of the highly regarded Monash Master in School Leadership, and Senior Lecturer for the Faculty of Education. She lectures and conducts research on the emotions of leadership, leadership development, school improvement, creating collaborative cultures, organizational change, student sense of connectedness and well being at school and the use of interactive web-based technologies to support the development of professional learning communities. As an international scholar, guest lecturer and keynote speaker, she has presented her work in China, Ireland, England, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Australia and Italy.
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 Dr Mauvia Gallie
Mavia has served on numerous national task teams during the transformation of education in South Africa. In particular, he was instrumental in shaping the country’s curriculum, development appraisal, skills development and continuous professional teacher development policies. He currently serves as chairperson and member of numerous quality assurance, and monitoring and evaluation bodies, as board member and trustee of non-profit organizations and is also a member of the Partners in Learning forum (Microsoft SA).
He is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria after completing service as Academic Manager of the Executive Leadership Program at the University of Witwatersrand and Director of the South African Council for Educators.
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 Professor Patrick Griffin
Patrick Griffin holds the Chair of Education (Assessment) at the University of Melbourne and is Director of the Assessment Research Centre. He is the Deputy Dean and Associate Dean for Knowledge Transfer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. He has published numerous books and journal articles on assessment and evaluation topics that include competency development, language proficiency, industrial literacy, school literacy and numeracy profile development, professional standards portfolio assessment and online assessment and calibration.
Professor Griffin has been awarded the John Smythe medal for excellence in research for his work on profiling literacy development and his work on profile reporting was identified in the annual 1996 yearbook of the American Society for Curriculum Development in Washington as world's best practice. He is a project team leader for UNESCO in southern Africa, and was awarded, in 2005, a UNESCO Research Medal by the Ministers of Education from southern African nations. Professor Griffin is a World Bank consultant in Vietnam and China, leading national and international teams in studies of literacy and numeracy assessment and has developed a system of teacher assessment recently signed into law by the Vietnam Government to be applied to more than 380000 teachers and to be replicated in China. His work currently focuses on item response modelling applications in interpretive frameworks for criterion referenced performance and developmental competence assessment. He has also addressed major professional associations, and taught and conducted assessment and evaluation research projects in Australia, Hong Kong, France, Ireland, the United States, Australia, Vietnam, China, New Zealand, Canada and Britain. Professor Griffin is one of only six Australians admitted to the International Academy of Education. His current work includes the application of item response modelling to performance assessment and the development of professional standards for classroom teachers and educational managers in Australia, Vietnam and China.
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 Professor Neil Dempster
Neil Dempster is a Professor in Educational Leadership at Griffith University and former Dean of its Faculty of Education. His research interests are in leadership for learning, school governance, school improvement and the role that professional development plays in leadership, policy implementation and institutional change.
Neil is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators where he held the post of National President in 2006 – 2007. His recent publications include two edited books, one titled The Treasure Within: leadership and succession planning (2007); the other, Connecting Leadership and Learning: principles for practice, published by Routledge (2009). Neil has written numerous articles on leadership in general and ethics in leadership in particular. Currently he is engaged in the Australian Primary Principals’ (APPA) led National Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) Pilot Project and is the Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project on Adolescent leadership. He is also Regional Editor for the forthcoming (2010) Springer International handbook on Leadership and Learning.
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