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Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Bristol, Professor of Higher Education (emeritus) at the University of Oxford, where he remains active in doctoral education, and Joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Higher Education. Simon was the founding director of the ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education which he led between November 2015 and May 2024. His research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, global science, higher education in East Asia, and the contributions of higher education to the common good. His scholarship is widely published and cited (Google h-index 89 in April 2025). Three of his books are published by Bloomsbury in 2025-2026: Brexit, EU students and UK higher education: broken bridges (with Vassiliki Papatsiba), The future of cross-border academic (im)mobilities: power, knowledge and agency (edited with Aline Courtois, Catherine Montgomery and Ravinder Sidhu), and Higher education in times of upheaval: on common good, geopolitics and decolonisation. A collection of his lecture in China is being published by Peking University Press in Chinese in November 2025.