Professor Chris Duke is the Chief Executive of the PASCAL International Observatory and Deputy Chair of the Council of the Tavistock Institute in London. He was part-time Director (Higher Education) for NIACE in the UK, and is currently part-time Professor at RMIT University Melbourne, where he was Director, Community and Regional Partnership after being Professor of Lifelong Learning at the University of Auckland. He is an Honorary Professor of Lifelong Learning at the Universities of Leicester and Stirling in the UK. He worked at the now University of Greenwich and then at Leeds before becoming Foundation Director of Continuing Education at the Australian National University, then in 1985 Foundation Professor and Director of Continuing Education at the University of Warwick. After serving as Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Warwick he became President of the University of Western Sydney Nepean. He has worked extensively from the seventies with the OECD and other international organisations mainly on education in relation to development, recurrent education and lifelong learning, also equity and poverty reduction issues, and sustainable development.