Associate Professor Dr Lucy Bailey is Dean of Bahrain Teachers College. With qualifications from the universities of Oxford, Bristol and London, she is a highly experienced educational leader, who has developed professional development programmes to upskill teachers across Asia. For example, she was Director of the Master Trainers Strand of the Bangladesh College Education Development Project, a multi-million dollar consortium led by the University of Nottingham and the World Bank. Formerly a secondary school teacher, she is expert in communicating practical teaching and educational leadership skills. Dr Bailey is also a skilled researcher, and is considered a global expert on the internationalisation of schooling and higher education. Her research interests also include parental engagement in education, and cultural constructions of gender.