Heinz-Dieter Meyer (PhD Cornell University) is Associate Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Albany, focusing on Organization and Governance of Education. He has taught in France (INSEAD) and Germany (the University of Goettingen), and held visiting appointments at Peking University, Penn State, and the East-West Institute, Honolulu. He was the 1989 Sidney Harman Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His research has appeared in International Sociology, Organization Science, American Journal of Education, Teachers College Record, Comparative Education Review, Comparative Sociology, among others. His commentary on political and educational problems has been published in the International Herald Tribune, Das Parlament, and Albany Times Union, among others.