Peter Mayo
Peter Mayo (born 2 May 1955) is a professor, speaker, editor, writer, and former head of the Department of Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education at the University of Malta, in Malta. He is responsible for the UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education at the same university. He formerly served as the university's head of the Department of Education Studies from 2008 to 2012. Mayo was a member of the Collegio Docenti for the doctoral research programme in Educational Sciences and Continuing Education at the Università degli Studi di Verona. He teaches in the areas of sociology  of education and adult continuing education, as well as in comparative and international education and sociology in general. He was previously employed as a school teacher and later as Officer in Charge of Adult Education in the then Department of Education, Ministry of Education, Malta. Mayo has held visiting professorial appointments at multiple universities and was a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Education, University College London during 2014. He was previously a member of the Collegio Docenti for the international doctorate in intercultural sociology and education at the University of Messina and was the President of the Mediterranean  Society of Comparative Education (MESCE) from 2008 to 2010. He was visiting professor at the Institute of Education, University College London (October 2016 - September 2018) Mayo has published well over 100 papers and has been serving as book series editor for Sense Publishers, Bloomsbury Academic, and Palgrave-Macmillan. He is also one of the editors for the refereed journal "Postcolonial Directions in Education." He also serves on the editorial advisory boards of several international peer reviewed journals including the "International Journal of Lifelong Education, Journal of Transformative Education", and "Educational Philosophy and Theory". Awards and recognition. UNESCO Chair in Global  Adult Education Honourable Mention for Higher Education in a Globalising World at 2021 Book Awards of the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Higher Education SIG. Inducted into the International Adult Continuing Education Hall of Fame Class of 2019. Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Higher Education SIG Award for the best published research article on higher education from an international and comparative perspective (2011)