Prof. Dr. Liudvika Leišytė

Liudvika Leišytė is Professor of Higher Education and Deputy Director at the Center for Higher Education (zhb) at TU Dortmund University. She holds a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, where she worked for ten years at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies and continues as a visiting senior scholar. She has held visiting professorships at Nagoya University (2019) and SciencesPo (2022), and was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University.

Her research focuses on changing university governance and management, interdisciplinarity, quality assurance and evaluation, and digitalization in higher education. She has published seven (co-edited) books, including University Governance, Management and the Academic Profession (Springer, 2025), and numerous articles in leading journals such as Higher Education, Minerva, Studies in Higher Education, Science and Public Policy, Public Management, and Public Administration.

Prof. Leišytė has received several awards, including the Emerald Literati Award (2018) and the Early Career Award at the PRIME/Globelics Latin America conference (2008). She serves on editorial boards of Higher Education Policy, The Learning Organization, Social Inclusion, and Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung. She is also an Advisory Board member of the Central Agency for Accreditation and Evaluation (ZEvA) in Germany, Lithuanian Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency (SKVC), serves on the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre Freiraum program selection committee, and in 2023 was elected to the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe).