Lorraine Anne Jennifer Stefani (born 1953)[1][2] is a British academic and author, and is emeritus professor of higher education at the University of Auckland.
Stefani originally trained as a scientist, and earned a Bachelor of Science with Honours at the University of Aberdeen, and then completed a PhD titled Mapping the transcriptional unit of the human epsilon globin gene at the University of Glasgow in 1982.
[3][4] She also holds a postgraduate diploma in education and social work from University College London.
Stefani retired from the university in 2017 and was awarded the title of emeritus professor.
[4] She is President of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (known as HETL), was an inaugural board member of Ako Aotearoa (the NZ National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence) and has consulted internationally on education development.