Keynotes

	Prof. Abdallah Saaf Abdallah Saaf is professor of political science at the University of Rabat. In 1997, he was named dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences at Mohammedia. A former Minister of Education, Prof. Saaf is currently the President of the Moroccan Association of Political Sciences, and Director of the Centre for Research and Studies in Social Sciences. He is the author of several articles and scientific works.
	Prof. Abdelmajid Kaddouri Prof. Abdelmajid Kaddouri is a historian and a specialist in Morocco-Europe relations. He is the author of several works, including the Mediterranean as seen by Moroccans, History of Morocco and Europe from XV to XVIII century, and The History of Relations between Morocco and the Netherlands. Prof. Kaddouri is dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco, and professor of History at Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
	Prof. Mehdi Lahlou Mehdi Lahlou is Professor of Economics at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economy (INSEA), Rabat, Morocco. Professor Lahlou is former member of the executive bureau of the National Union of Higher Education (Morocco) and founder of the Open University on “Migration, human rights and development”. Prof. Lahlou has written numerous publications and reports in the areas of education, vocational training, employment and the labour market in Morocco and in the Maghreb region. He published widely in the areas of sustainable development and Euro-Mediterranean relationships. He has also led and published numerous ILO-, EU-, UNDP- and UNAIDS-supported studies and reports, during the last ten years, in the area of international migration, in particular irregular migration from Maghreb and many other parts of Africa to EU countries. Prof Lahlou is vice president of The Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education (MESCE).
	Fatma Gok Fatma Gok is a Professor at Bogazici University, Faculty of Education in Istanbul, Turkey and chairperson of the Department of Educational Sciences. She was educated in public schools in villages and towns of Anatolia, and received her BA from Ankara University. With a state scholarship, she received her Ph.D at Columbia University, New York. Her scholarship focuses on educational policy and politics, gender based discrimination in education and life, social foundations of education and comparative education. She has published on the core issues of the gender issues in Education, right to education, anti-discriminatory and pro-social justice education. She is committed to public education, democracy and class, gender and ethnic equality in society and social transformation. She served as the chairperson for the work group “Right to Education” on the Democratic Education Congress organized by Eğitim-Sen (Teachers’ Union) in December, 2004, participated EgitimSen Women’s Congress in the same year. She was a Research Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College in the USA during the 1992-1993 school year. She was among editorial collective of Kaktus, a Socialist Feminist journal from 1987 to 1992 and editorial collective of Pazartesi, a by-monthly feminist Journal from 1994 to 2001. Before becoming an academician she worked in the Turkish Ministry of Education, Department of Planning, Research and Coordination, taught social studies in Balgat High School in Ankara. She held a number of academic and administrative positions at Bogaziçi University, including head of the Department of Educational Sciences, and the member of the University Senate, member of the University Life Ethics Committee (continuing). She co-authored the book Towards a Human Rights Sensitive Educational Environment (with Alper Sahin), which is widely used as a guidebook to create a democratic environment in schools in in Turkey. She is the editor of Education in 75 years of the Turkish Republic and co-author of Survey of Teacher Profile (with Rifat Okcabol). She was an Honorary Scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,USA from September 2006 to June 2007 working on the transformation of Education of the post-1980 neolieral globalization era focusing on Turkey. This is a work-in-progress book. With Marie Carlson and Annika Rabo she edited Education in “Multicultural” Societies, Turkish and Swedish Perspectives published in 2007. Her article co-authered with Deniz Ilgaz, Right to Education was printed in the book Human Rights in Turkey published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2007, edited by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat.