Tom Schuller

Tom Schuller is Head of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD, Paris.  Formerly Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London from 1999 to 2003.  He has worked also at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Warwick, at the Institute for Community Studies and for four years at OECD in the 1970s.  He has been an adviser to government on numerous issues, especially on lifelong learning.    Recent publications include The Benefits of Learning: The Impact of Education on Health, Family Life and Social Capital (with John Preston et al, Routledge 2003); International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning (edited with David Istance and Hans Schutze, Open University Press 2002); and Social Capital: Critical Perspectives (edited with Stephen Baron and John Field, OUP 2000).