N’Dri Assié-Lumumba is a Professor of Education, History and Gender in Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. She is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg and President of the Global Africa Comparative and International Education Society. A Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, she has served as Director of the Cornell Institute for African Development (IAD), President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of UNESCOS’s Inter-governmental program for the Management of Social Transformations (MOST).

She has held distinguished positions in Africa and globally and received numerous recognitions. She has published extensively on higher education, gender/equity, ICT, and indigenous knowledge. Among her recent co-edited books are Re-visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity (2018), Education and the Development of Human Capital: Outcomes for Equity and Governance in Africa (2020), and AKWABA AFRICA: African Renaissance in the 21st Century (2024).