She also serves as President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and Chair of UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Scientific Advisory Committee.
She earned her bachelor's degree at the Lumière University Lyon 2, where she studied sociology and history.
[1] She moved to the United States for her graduate studies, where she earned her doctoral degree at the University of Chicago in 1982.
[4] She spent 2003 as a Professor in the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education at Hiroshima University.
[7][8] She serves as Chair of the scientific advisory committee for the UNESCO Management of Social Transformations (MOST) program.