Dominic Orr
Senior Researcher, FiBS - Research Institute for the Economics of Education and Social Affairs, Germany
Dr. Dominic Orr is a British national, who has a doctorate in comparative education from the Technical University of Dresden. Following this doctorate, he was employed by the German Centre for Higher Education Research (DZHW), where he coordinated international projects. He has worked as external consultant for the OECD, UNESCO and the World Bank. He is currently senior researcher at FiBS-Research Institute for the Economics of Education and Social Affairs in Berlin, where he (inter alia) has completed a study for the International Council on Open and Distance Education (ICDE) on digital adaption of higher education provisions, is leading a project for the German government on the future of higher education and is leading work on a book for UNESCO on designing national policies for Open Educational Resources. He is a member of the MIRVA project working on making recognition visible and actionable.