Dr. Ingrid Gogolin is Professor for International comparative and intercultural education research at the University of Hamburg and director of the Research Center “LiDS – Literacy in Diversity Settings”. Her research is focussed on the problem of equity in education systems. She is particularly interested in the question of how educational disadvantages due to multilingualism can be reduced and the advantages of multilingualism can be exploited for high quality teaching and successful learning. Ingrid Gogolin is a founding member of WERA and was WERA President from 2018 to 2020.