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Head of the Education Management and Infrastructure Division
Richard Yelland has been Head of the Education Management and Infrastructure Division in the OECD Directorate for Education since its creation in 2002. This Division is responsible for the work of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) and the Programme on Educational Building (PEB).
Richard joined OECD in 1986 from the Department of Education and Science in the United Kingdom, where he had held a range of posts in educational policy and administration since 1974. He has led PEB since 1989. Following a secondment to the University of Adelaide, South Australia, he was given the additional responsibility for IMHE in 1998.
Richard has been responsible for and has contributed to a range of OECD publications on higher education and educational infrastructure. He is frequently invited to address international and national meetings on different aspects of education.
Richard is a member of the Advisory Board of the UNESCO Centre for European Higher Education (CEPES), and of the International Advisory Network for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education in the United Kingdom. He has contributed as an international expert to the evaluation of educational institutions and programmes in Belgium and France.
Richard was born and educated in England. He studied Mathematics and Religious Studies at Cambridge University. He and his wife, Anne, have three children, one at secondary school in France, and two at university in England.
Contact information:
OECD/IMHE
2, rue André Pascal
75775 Paris, Cedex 16
imhe@oecd.org
Telephone : 33-1 45 24 92 60
Fax: 33-1 44 30 61 76
Office location:
Tour Europe, La Défense
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