Christopher Day is a Professor of Education and a member of the Centre for Research on Educational Leadership and Management (CRELM). He is also a Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Chair Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University, China. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, North East Normal University, China, and a Senior Fellow of East China Normal University. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of 'Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice' (TTTP) and a member of the Editorial Boards of The British Educational Research Journal (BERJ), Teaching and Teacher Education (TATE), and the Journal of Educational Administration (JEA). He is the founder of the longest-running 25-country international research network on successful school principalship (ISSPP). In recognition of his work internationally in the field of research on teachers and leaders, he has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Linkoping, Sweden and the Education University of Hong Kong; and the Michael Huberman Award for Excellence in Research on Teachers by the American Educational Research Association. In 2009, he was awarded a higher doctorate (D.Litt) by the University of Nottingham and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Academy of Social Sciences.