Robin Alexander is Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Warwick, and formerly Professor of Education at the University of Leeds. He has held visiting academic positions in Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India and Singapore, and has honorary doctorates from two universities. He was elected President of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) for 2008-9. Educated at the universities of Cambridge, Durham, London and Manchester, he has taught in schools, colleges and universities, has served on government advisory bodies and national enquiries in the UK, and has undertaken research, evaluation and consultancy in many other countries. His research and writing on education since the 1980s have covered policy, pedagogy, curriculum, evaluation, international comparative and cultural studies, primary education and teacher education. His 2001 book Culture and Pedagogy won top education book prizes on both sides of the Atlantic. Since 2006, Robin Alexander has directed the Cambridge Primary Review, an independently-funded enquiry into the condition and future of primary education in England, and the biggest such investigation since the 1960s. The Review published 31 interim reports between 2007 and 2009 and its final report and recommendations, Children, their World, their Education, in October 2009. It then entered its current phase of dissemination, policy engagement and network-building.