ANDY GREEN is Professor of Comparative Social Science at the UCL Institute of Education, and Director, since 2008, of the ERSC Centre on Learning and Life Chances (LLAKES). After graduating in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, he took an MA in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the University of Birmingham, followed by a PhD in comparative historical sociology, focusing on the origins of national education systems. He was subsequently employed as Senior Lecturer in Education History and Policy at Thames Polytechnic before moving to the Institute of Education in London.

Andy was formerly co-founder and co-director of the UK Government-funded Wider Benefits of Learning Centre (1999-2004) and has directed and co-directed major comparative research projects addressing both economic and social impacts of education and training, including Education and Training for a High Skills Economy (ESRC,1997-2000); Globalisation, Education and Development (DFID, 2004-6); Convergence and Divergence in Education Systems in Europe (EC, 1996-7). He has been PI for research grants worth over £10 m and C-I for projects worth over £6m. 

He has frequently acted as consultant both to international bodies, such as CEDEFOP, the European Commission, OECD and UNESCO, and to UK Government bodies, including the DFES National Skills Task Force (1999-2000) and Skills Task Force Research Group (2002), the Ministerial Skills Strategy Steering Group (2003) and the House of Lords Select Committee on Social Mobility (2015).

Andy has published widely on a range of social and education issues, with major works translated into Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. Google Scholar finds 11086 citations of his work, yielding an h-index of 43 and an i10-index of 79. He was named among the top 2 per cent of the world’s most cited scientists in the recent study by Stanford University (2021). His 22 books include: Regimes of Social Cohesion: Societies and the Crisis of Globalisation, Palgrave 2011; Education and Development in a Global Era: Strategies for‘ Successful’ Globalisation, DFID, 2007; Education, Equality and Social Cohesion, Palgrave 2006; Education, Globalisation and the Nation State, Palgrave, 1997. A new and extended edition of his prize-winning 1990 book was published in 2013 as Education and State Formation: Europe, East Asian and the USA. His latest, published on open access by Palgrave, is entitled: The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequality in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare.

Andy Green was elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Science in 2010.