Professor Stephanie Marshall is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Global Education and Innovation section. She is the Vice-Principal (Education) at Queen Mary University of London. Appointed in 2018, she has led the development of the Education and Student Success Enabling Plan to support Queen Mary’s 2030 Strategy. Stephanie was previously CEO of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), positioning the HEA as a global leader in teaching excellence. She led HEA’s transformation from a government-funded organisation to a highly successful, sustainable organisation with extensive global reach and membership spanning 45 countries worldwide.
Stephanie has a global reputation for developing and promoting academic leadership and learning and is much sought as a keynote speaker and panellist. Stephanie is an appointed member of the EUA Learning and Teaching Steering Committee and is passionate about higher education enabling an inclusive society which supports an absolute commitment to equality, diversity and the public good. Stephanie has been instrumental in supporting national Teaching Excellence Initiatives around the globe to include: as a panel member for the German Excellenz initiative; as the chair of two rounds of the Norwegian Centres for Excellence Initiative; as a member of the group working up England’s Framework to assessing Teaching Excellence - the TEF.