Interim Officers

Interim President
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin
Professor, School of Education, Psychology and Human Movement, University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin is on the faculty of the School of Education, Psychology and Human Movement at the University of Hamburg, in Hamburg, Germany, where she specializes in International Comparative and Multicultural Educational Research. Her main research and working fields include: Language education in multilingual classrooms, education for immigrant minority children, linguistic diversity and learning of mathematics, and evaluation of bilingual schools and innovative education programs. Dr. Gogolin is internationally renowned for her research on the educational integration of children and adolescents from migrant backgrounds. Her major publications include: Streitfall Zweisprachigkeit – The Bilingualism Controversy (2009), “City Case Study Hamburg,” (In: Bourne, Jill/ Reid, Euan, Language Education. World Yearbook of Education, London: Sterling, 2003); and "Linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe: a challenge for educational research and practice.” (In: European Educational Research Journal, 2002). From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Gogolin was President of the German Educational Research Association (GERA/ DGfE) and from 2004 to 2009, President of the European Educational Research Association (EERA). She has been a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town, Columbia University, the University of Vienna, and the University of Southampton. Dr. Gogolin was awarded a State Examination, University Diploma, Dr. phil. and Habilitation in Educational Sciences at Universities of Düsseldorf (1980), Essen (1982) and Hamburg (1987).

Interim Vice President
Professor Yin Cheong Cheng
Vice President for Research and Development and
Chair Professor of Leadership and Change
The Hong Kong Institute of Education

Prof. Yin Cheong Cheng is the Vice-President for Research and Development and Chair Professor of Leadership and Change of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. His research focuses on education effectiveness, leadership, school management, and education reform. He has published extensively internationally, with some publications translated into the Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Czech, Thai and Persian languages. He is currently serving on the advisory boards of 17 international journals, and is the associate editor of the International Journal of Educational Management (UK). Prof. Cheng’s research has won him a number of international awards and recognition, including the Awards for Excellence from the Literati Club in the UK. He is the immediate past-President (2004-2008) of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association. In recognition of his contribution to educational research in the region, he was named a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association in 2008. He has served as a consultant to numerous national and international projects on education reform around the world, and has presented 70 keynote/plenary presentations to national and international organizations such as UNESCO, UNICEF, the Ford Foundation, and the World Bank. He has also been very interested in watercolor painting since the 1960s, has had three invited exhibitions of his work, and conducts art seminars at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Prof. Cheng holds a doctorate from Harvard University.

Interim Secretary General
Dr. Felice J. Levine, Ph.D.
Executive Director, American Educational Research Association

Felice J. Levine is Executive Director of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), based in Washington, D.C. From 1991 until 2002, Levine was Executive Officer of the American Sociological Association. She also served as Director of the Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation from 1979 to 1991 and as Senior Research Social Scientist at the American Bar Foundation from 1974 to 1983. Her work has focused on research and science policy issues, research ethics, the academic and scientific workforce, and higher education. She has served as facilitator of WERA-in-formation since 2007. With interdisciplinary background across the social and behavioral sciences, she serves on the Executive Committee of the Consortium of Social Science Associations and is Vice-Chair and on the Board of Directors of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics. Levine recently served as chair of the National Research Council Workshop on Protecting Student's Records and Facilitating Education Research. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Educational Research Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She is a past President of the Law and Society Association. She received her A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in sociology and psychology.