NING Bo is a professor in the Research Institute for International and Comparative Education, Shanghai Normal University and a project manager in the Teacher Education Centre, UNESCO. He got a Ph.D. degree from KU Leuven in Belgium in November 2014. Since his participation in RIICE in 2015, he published more than twenty papers on peer-reviewed national and international journals such as Journal of Educational Research, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Still, he is also the author of three academic books in English or Chinese. Recently, his work fields include measurement and evaluation of school principals and teachers, project design and organization of international teacher training, cross-country comparative studies on educational effectiveness and evaluation, and empirical studies on quality and equity of basic education in Shanghai. Since 2017, he has organized a series of annual exchange projects, such as the Belt and Road Shanghai Exchange Project for Educational Administrators and the Exchange Program for Botswana Educational Administrators under the 20+20 Cooperation Plan for Chinese and African Universities. These projects have provided visit opportunities for more than 100 education administrators and scholars from 35 countries to China.
