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Dr. Andrew (Drew) MacFarlane completed his MA at the Adam Smith Business School (University of Glasgow), before going on to do a masters in linguistics and PhD in psychology. He lectured at the University of York, before going on to work in international admissions consulting in Shanghai. He is the Senior Research Manager at QS, responsible for overseeing the development, governance, and integrity of our rankings.

Leigh Kamolins is Director of Analytics & Evaluation at QS. He is responsible for the organization’s rankings, ratings and analytics insight platforms. He has a background in performance evaluation, quality assurance and evaluation system design spanning the public and private sectors in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Leigh led a team reporting on a key school reform programme for the UK Department for Education and designed anti-corruption and human rights monitoring frameworks in the public sector in Australia. He has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Monash University in Australia including a period studying abroad at King’s College London and is currently an Executive MBA Fellow at the Central European University in Vienna. He is passionate about equalities and access to quality education. 

Ludovic is currently Strategic Rankings Consultant and Secretary to the QS Global Rankings Advisory Board. He is also an Associate Professor in Higher Education Management at the University of Bath. Previously, he was a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Global Higher Education, based at the University College London’s Institute of Education, and a Research Centre Associate at the University of Oxford. His teaching and research interests lie at the intersection between contemporary European studies and higher education studies. Ludovic’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, higher education policy and higher education in Europe. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge. Ludovic sits on a number of boards including the Hinrich’s Foundation Trade Rankings Consultative Committee and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Innovations in Education and Teaching International.