Jagdish Singh Gundara is Emeritus Professor of Education at the Institute of Education at the University of London. He holds the UNESCO Chair in International Studies and Teacher Education at the School of Culture and Lifelong Learning.
He was appointed as the first Head of International Centre for Intercultural Education in 1979 and retained this position till 2006. He is the founding member and the current President of the International Association of Intercultural Education which is based in Brussels.
He was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Scarman Trust, based in London and following the death of the first President of the Trust Lord Leslie Scarman, he was elected as the second President of the Trust.
Professor Gundara is a founding member of the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT), and Vice-Chairman of the Board of IBT and was a Commissioner of the Commission for Racial Equality until its closure in August 2007. He has been the President of Jury of Evens Foundation Intercultural Education Jury since 1997. His research interests include curriculum studies; development studies; comparative education; citizenship education; multilingualism and asylum and refugee issues.
He is the author of Interculturalism, Education and Inclusion (Paul Chapman, 2000) and co-editor of Intercultural Social Policy in Europe (Ashgate, 2000) and has published extensively in the fields of human rights and education in multicultural studies.
He was elected to the Board of Trustees in July 2011.
