Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Yusuf Sayed is Professor of Education specialising in global education policy and development focusing on equity, inclusion, and social justice. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was the Professor of International Education and Development Policy at the University of Sussex, the South African Research Chair in Teacher Education, and the Founding Director of the Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE), at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa. Yusuf was also the Senior Policy Analyst at the EFA Global Monitoring Report, UNESCO, Team Leader for Education and Skills, at the then Department for International Development (now FCDO) UK, and Head of the Department of Comparative Education at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Yusuf engages with the nexus between the development and implementation of policy at different levels of the education system. His scholarship focuses on the implications for national and global education policy goals of efforts to achieve equity, inclusion and empowerment in countries of the global South in particular and the reasons why these may not achieve their emancipatory goals.