Advisory Board

Eszter Salamon PhD is the Director of Parents International and an inclusion consultant for the European School Heads Association. Currently, she is also a visiting professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. Originally trained as a teacher, she started her career as a teacher at a primary cum secondary school. Later, she became an economist and has been teaching in higher and vocational education. She started dealing with rights of the child topics in 1989 and has specialized in students’ rights and parents’ rights in the past 30+ years, being active at European level since 2009 and international level since 2015. She has earned her Doctorate in education leadership, focusing on parental empowerment and engagement, and child participation. Her team has developed globally acknowledged practical initiatives on parental engagement, child participation, open schooling, education inclusion, and the validation and recognition of skills gained through parenting. She has been invited to participate at expert groups of the European Commission, the Council of Europe and OECD. In the field of parental engagement, her main area of activity is related to professionals’ perceptions and capacity-building needs for better collaboration. Her work is framed by her experience as a teacher, as a parent, as a school board president as well as a researcher and trainer. She is a bookworm and a dog-lover.