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Michael A. Peters is professor of education at the University of Waikato; professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and adjunct professor in the School of Art at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and Guangzhou University. He previously held a personal chair at Auckland University and position as research professor at the University of Glasgow. He has held positions as visiting professor in over twenty universities around the world. He is the editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Wiley-Blackwell), Policy Futures in Education, and  E-Learning. His most recent books include: "Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labor" (2011); "Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy" (with P. Murphy and S. Marginson) (Peter Lang, 2009); "Global Knowledge Cultures" (Sense, 2008) (with C. Kapitzke); "Building Knowledge Cultures: Educational and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), (with Tina Besley); and "Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of the University" (Sense, 2007). He was elected a lifelong fellow by the New Zealand Academy of Humanities in 2008 and is a honorary member of the Royal Society of New Zealand.