Wendy Purcell, PhD FRSA, is a full professor at Rutgers University and Academic Research Scholar with Harvard University. She is Lead Faculty with Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Division of Continuing Education and Visiting Scientist with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she was an Academic 2016-2022.

Wendy’s purpose lies in transforming lives through education and research in pursuit of social equity, the knowledge economy, and sustainable development. Her work focuses on sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as fuel for societal transformation and the adaptive change necessary to achieve a just transition and the creation of a world that leaves no one behind.

Wendy takes a keen interest in educational technology and online education as part of advancing inclusive excellence in sustaining the academy and is an Editorial Board member of Advances in Online Education. She was a University President in the UK (2007-2015) and is an Emeritus Professor. Wendy has published over 100-academic peer reviewed papers and is series editor of Higher Education and the SDGs and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education – An Agenda for Transformational Change.