Karen Valentin, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology, School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. She completed her PhD in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen in 2002 and has conducted research in Nepal, India, Vietnam, and Denmark within the fields of education, migration, urban life, and youth since the mid-1990s. Her research has focused on the role of education in interrelated processes of geographical and social mobility in the context of conflict-related migration from Nepal to India and in student migration from Nepal to Denmark. She has been engaged in various research activities in collaboration with Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu University as well as interdisciplinary research on public finance in education in Nepal.
Uma Pradhan is Departmental Lecturer, South Asian Studies, University of Oxford, UK. She holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford and uses ethnographic methods to explore social meanings of education and the larger processes of state-society interaction in its production.