Jürgen Schriewer is Professor of Comparative Education and Head of the Comparative Education Centre at Humboldt University, Berlin. His particular research interests include the comparative social history of education, issues of globalization and world-level interconnection in education, as well as the history and methodology of cross-cultural research in education and the social sciences. A former President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe, Jürgen Schriewer has been actively involved in interdisciplinary networks focused on cross-cultural social and historical research which have been set up at Humboldt University, since the mid-1990s.