She brings to this role experience of education research, teaching, policy-making, management, and consultancy in different international contexts. Maia Chankseliani worked on research and consultancy assignments with non-profit, for-profit and international organisations to examine, amongst other issues, student mobility from post-Soviet countries to the EU/UK; public-private partnerships in education in Africa; apprenticeships policies and systems in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia; skills competitions, entrepreneurship, and private training provision in the UK; teacher educators’ professional development in Pakistan; labour market demand in Georgia; civil service modernisation in Kazakhstan; and child labour in Ghana.