Maarten Simons is professor of educational policy and theory at the Laboratory for Education and Society of the University of Leuven (Belgium). His principal interests are in educational policy, mechanisms of power, and the new global, European and national regimes of governing education. In his recent work, he focuses on current monitoring devices in education, processes of governing through examples, and the shift from disciplinary power and individualization to feedback and personalization. His research explicitly addresses the challenges posed to education with a major interest in (re-)thinking and (re-)inventing the public role of schools and universities. In public experiments he tries to organize collective, experimental research on the crossroads of education and society.