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Professor Elizabeth Buckner is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, where she holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Higher Education for Global Sustainable Development. Within the scope of her Canada Research Chair, she is working on two projects related to the impact of the SDGs on higher education. The first project is tracking the integration of SD into the mission and vision statements of universities of a random sample of 3,000 universities around the world. The second is the Sustainability Tracking in Higher Education: Learning from the Adoption and Adaptation of STARS in the Global South. Through this project she aims to understand how institutions view sustainability, their approaches to advancing sustainable development, and the factors affecting their decisions to participate in sustainability tracking or not.  

Elizabeth has also had numerous engagements with the global development community through various consultant and advisory roles, including serving as an External Expert for the Global Education Monitoring Report’s Advisory Board (2021) and the Expert Reference Group for the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA). She has experience convening knowledge sharing workshops: for example, she worked closely with colleagues at FHI360 (a nonprofit human development organization), the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and NORRAG (the Network for international policies and cooperation in education and training) to organize in Geneva in June 2019, which brought together roughly 70 EiE professionals from across the humanitarian and development sectors.