Staff profile

Conrad Hughes (MA, PhD, EdD) is Head of School at the Lycée International de Los Angeles. He is also Professor in Practice at the University of Durham's School of Education, Senior Fellow at UNESCO's International Bureau of Education, member of the University of the People’s Education Advisory Board and a member of the International Education Research Team at the University of Geneva's department of psychology and education.

Previously Director General of the  International School of Geneva, he has been School Principal, Director of Education, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Coordinator and teacher in schools in Switzerland, France, India and the Netherlands.

His PhD (2008) is in English literature: The Treatment of the Body in the Fiction of JM Coetzee. His EdD thesis (2018), written at Durham University, is on the relationship between prejudice and education with specific focus on how education can reduce prejudice.

He is the author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. Conrad's most recent books are Education and Elitism: Challenges and Opportunities (2021, Routledge), Understanding Prejudice and Education: The Challenge for Future Generations (2017, Routledge) and Educating for the 21st Century: Seven Global Challenges (2018, Brill). Changing Assessment: How to Design Curriculum for Human Flourishing was published by Brill in 2025.