Lore Arthur was Senior Lecturer at the Open University’s Faculty of Education responsible for the postgraduate programme of lifelong learning. She has researched and published widely in comparative (adult) education, lifelong learning, higher education and foreign language learning. Lore joined the executive committee of BAICE in 2000;she was first Treasurer, then Vice Chair and Chair of BAICE (2006 – 2010) and Chair of the Editorial Board of Compare (2008-2010). She was also Co-Director of the BAICE ‘Insider-Outsider’ Thematic Forum from 2012 to 2015 and, as a member of the executive committee of UKFIET, convenor of Global Monitoring Report Colloquia between 2009 and 2012.