Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education at University College London in the UK. He is Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. From 2006-2013 he was Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He works primarily on higher education and globalization, and higher education and social inequality. His most recent book is The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2016). Richard James is Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne.