Christopher Lubienski is Professor of education policy at Indiana University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy. Additionally, Lubienski was Sir Walter Murdoch Visiting Professor at Murdoch University, Western Australia, where he is now Adjunct Professor, and Visiting Professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai. He is also a fellow with the American Educational Research Association and the National Education Policy Center. He is the author (with Sarah Theule Lubienski) of The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2014), and co-editor of The Global Education Industry (with Antoni Verger and Gita Steiner-Khamsi; Routledge, 2016).His research focuses on the political economy of education, with a particular interest in issues of equity, access and organizational behavior. His current work examines organizational responses to competitive conditions in local education markets, and the role of intermediary organizations in shaping policymakers’ use of research evidence.Lubienski held post-doctoral fellowships with the National Academy of Education and with the Advanced Studies Program at Brown University, and was Fulbright Senior Scholar for New Zealand, where he studies school policies and student enrollment patterns.He has authored both theoretical and empirical papers on questions of innovation, achievement and equity in school choice systems, including peer-reviewed articles in the American Journal of Education, the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Policy, and the Oxford Review of Education. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, La Liberacion, Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Times Education Supplement, and Business Week.In addition to School Choice Policies and Outcomes: Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives (with Walter Feinberg, SUNY Press, 2008), Lubienski recently published The Charter School Experiment: Expectations, Evidence, and Implications (with Peter Weitzel, Harvard Education Press, 2010).