Ratna Ghosh

Ratna Ghosh is a Canadian academic and education scholar. She is a Distinguished James McGill Professor and Sir William C. Macdonald Professor of Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she previously served as the Dean of the Faculty of Education from 1998 – 2003.

Her area of teaching and research is comparative and international education. Her most cited publications are in multicultural education and social justice education, as well as in the areas of women and development, women's empowerment, and education and security.

She has been elected to several Academies and received national and international honours and awards. She has held leadership positions such as resident director of the bi-national organization, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, in New Delhi, and was later elected president of the institute. She has been on the board of directors and the executive committee of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation (now ''Equitas''). She has been president of the American Comparative and International Education Society. Provided by Wikipedia