Shyam Menon is a Professor at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi since 1994. He was the Founding Vice Chancellor of the Ambedkar University Delhi, during 2008-2018, in which capacity he led a team of scholars and professionals in building from its very inception this public university dedicated to the Social Sciences and Humanities. He had been Dean, Faculty of Education and the Proctor of the University of Delhi (2000-05) and earlier Director, School of Education, Indira Gandhi National Open University (1996-98) and Professor at the Central Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT (1993-94). He began his teaching career in 1982 at the M.S. University of Baroda where he taught for several years. His education was at the University of Kerala and at the M.S. University of Baroda. He was later at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow. His work has mainly been in Curriculum Studies, Higher Education and Teacher Education. He edited the journal, Perspectives in Education, for many years. He has been on the international advisory board of the journal, Comparative Education. He had served on the Task Force on Access and Equity in Higher Education constituted by the International Association of Universities. He has been on the boards and academic councils of several institutions and universities.