Volker Wedekind is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education, University of Nottingham. He is the Convenor of the Nottingham UNESCO UNEVOC Centre. Prior to joining the University of Nottingham, he held positions at the universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Witwatersrand in South Africa, where he held various senior positions as Head of School, Deputy Dean for Continuing Education, and Research Chair in Vocational Education and Pedagogy. He served on numerous national bodies, including three ministerial committees, advisory committees of the Council for Higher Education (CHE) and the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). He was a Panel Member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, reporting on the state of agricultural education and training in South Africa. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne’s German Research Centre for Comparative Vocational Education and Training. He is an Honorary Professor at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of Witwatersrand. He served in various editorial capacities, as editor in chief of the Journal of Education, as Associate Editor of International Journal of Training and Development and Pedagogy Culture Society, and as a member of the Editorial Boards of four international journals. His research has been funded by SAQA, Umalusi, DHET, HSRC, UNESCO, ESRC GCRF, and the British Academy, amongst others. He supervised 12 doctoral students to completion. He is the author of numerous research papers, journal articles and book chapters. He wrote or co-wrote materials for courses in teacher education, including Understanding Outcomes-Based Education, published by Oxford University Press and the History of TVET in South Africa for SAIDE.