Richard Sack’s experience has spanned academic and operational work. After completing his undergraduate work, he taught in Algeria for three years and then did his PhD in International Development Education and Sociology at Stanford University. For much of the 1970s he was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). During that time, he was also Research Director at the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires pour le Développement de l’Education at the Université Nationale du Zaire in Kisangani where he conducted research and trained graduate students. After a couple of years at the International Institute for Educational Planning, in 1981 he began working as an independent consultant, working on evaluation, research, policy analysis and project development. Between 1955 and 2001, he was Executive Secretary of ADEA. Since leaving ADEA, Dr. Sack has returned to the life of independent consulting, working mainly on evaluation, policy analysis, program development, research and writing.