Noah W. Sobe is Senior Program Officer on the UNESCO Future of Innovation and Learning team where he helps to lead the organization's flagship Futures of Education initiative which recently resulted in the publication "Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education". He is a historian of education and researcher in comparative and international education, currently on-leave from a faculty position as Professor at Loyola University Chicago. A Past President of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Noah is also the co-editor of the journal "European Education". He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.A. from Teachers College Columbia University and a B.A. from Tufts University.