Lucy Crehan is an education explorer and consultant who works with national and local governments on education policy design. She teaches an online Masters module on International Comparisons in Education at the University of Buckingham and runs an Education Policy Accelerator for those new to education policy. Her book, Cleverlands: the secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers, documents her personal odyssey in classrooms in Finland, Japan, Singapore, Shanghai and Canada, and was one of the Economist's 'Books of the Year' within a month of its release.