Veronica Boix Mansilla is a Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she also chairs the Future of Learning summer institute. Her research examines the conditions that enable experts and young learners to produce quality interdisciplinary work addressing problems of contemporary global significance (e.g., globalization, climate change, migration). Her most recent research focuses on quality education for global competence. Veronica leads the “World in Portland” project—a multi-year collaboration with the city of Portland, Maine, geared to promote and study global competence among leaders, teachers, and students in a city with a growing migrant and refugee population. With her research team, she is advancing a framework for “signature pedagogies” and “global thinking routines” in global education, distilling the unique demands that global content presents to teachers and learners as they seek to understand the works and create cultures of global competence in classrooms and schools. Veronica studies the development global consciousness among International Baccalaureate youth in North America, Kenya and India, as well as the experience of global leadership among business leaders and social entrepreneurs in India, China and the US. Veronica is an advisor for the International Baccalaureate, Asia Society, Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the Council of Chief State School Officers. She has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of Buenos Aires. Her most recent books and publications include: Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World (2011), written with Tony Jackson for the Asia Society and the Council of Chief State School Officers in the United States, articulating a definition of global competence; Disciplinary Foundations: Teaching Big Ideas for Deep Understanding in Languages, Mathematics and Science (2012) for the International Baccalaureate Organization; and Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations (In Press). Most recently, she has piloted Global Thinking Routines in traditional public and charter school classrooms in DC and Boston.