Deborah Roseveare

Head of the Skills Beyond School division

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Valerie Lafon

Communications Analyst

Valérie Lafon is a project manager responsible for several activities within the OECD Higher Education Programme (IMHE). She is responsible for the Programme’s communication strategy and the development of its member relations. She is also in charge of IMHE workshops for members and conferences.

She has previously held several positions as a communication manager in different international organisations and NGOs. She has also worked in science and technology, and innovation and industry, as well as the development sector for many years.

She holds a Master's degree in corporate marketing and communication from Paris II University, a Master's degree in political sciences from Paris I University, a Master’s degree in applied foreign languages from Paris 7, as well as a Bachelors of Arts in Public Administration from Paris I.

Anna Glass

Policy Analyst

Anna Glass is a higher education specialist who joined the OECD Higher Education Programme as a Policy Analyst in March 2013.

She previously served as Secretary General of the Magna Charta Observatory throughout 2012, before which appointment she was Chief a.i. of the Section for Higher Education at UNESCO, where she had been recruited as a higher education Programme Specialist.

Mrs. Glass has conducted research and served as an external expert for the Eurydice European Unit (European Commission) and for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Mrs. Glass has also served as adjunct program director and resource specialist at the Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria, where she began her career as program associate for the Universities Project and later as coordinator for Central and Eastern Europe for the Visiting Advisors Program.

Mrs. Glass holds a B.A. in literature from Middlebury College in Vermont, USA and an M.A. in international higher education from the University of Bath, UK. She is currently on leave from her PhD studies in international higher education at Boston College with Professor Philip G. Altbach.

 Emily Groves

Assistant

Emily Groves returned to the IMHE programme in September 2008, having previously worked there in 2006. She is the person primarily responsible for the IMHE programme's administration and membership relations, as well as assisting in the management of the Programme's budget and working on communication materials. She has worked at the OECD, in the Directorate for Education, since September 2003.

Emily was born and educated in Australia and has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Ancient History from the University of Queensland, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Library Science from the Queensland University of Technology. She came to France in 1997 and, before joining the OECD, she worked as an English Assistant at Reims University and an Editorial Assistant for a medical journal in Paris.