Geoffrey Walford is Emeritus Professor of Education Policy and an Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. He was previously Reader in Education Policy at Oxford, and Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Education Policy at Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham.
He has academic degrees from Oxford, Kent, London and the Open Universities, and is author of more than 150 academic articles and book chapters. He was Joint Editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies from 1999 to 2002, and was Editor of the Oxford Review of Education from 2004 to 2010.