Associate Professor Zane Ma Rhea is Academic Leader, Curriculum & Pedagogy Academic Community, Faculty of Education, Monash University. Her research theorizes comparative and cross-cultural understandings of the cultivation of wisdom and examines how higher education, teacher education, and schooling are harming or supporting the sustainable education of wise, global citizens. Originally trained as a social worker in the 1970s, Dr Ma Rhea worked in Australia, UK and Spain before returning to Australia in the late 1980s. She began her academic career in the 1990s and in 1997-1998, she was the Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. Dr Ma Rhea’s teaching, supervision, and research spans cross-cultural and comparative perspectives in teacher education, wisdom studies, leadership development, educator development in mainstream service provision to Indigenous peoples, and theorizes pedagogy and curriculum within complex, postcolonial, democratic states.