Mark Baildon is an accomplished educator and researcher with a wealth of experience in teaching and education. He is currently the Associate Dean (Partnerships & Analytics) in the Office of Education Research (OER) at National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University. His scholarly interests include promoting social studies inquiry practices, global citizenship education, 21st century literacies, and controversial history education in Asian contexts.

With a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Educational Policy from Michigan State University, a Masters in Social Sciences from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in History & Psychology from the University of Rochester, Mark has extensive academic credentials. He has spent several years teaching social studies in the US, Israel, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan. At Indiana University, he helped create and develop the Critical Web Reader, a comprehensive set of Web-based inquiry, literacy, and technology tools designed to guide teachers and students to engage strategically with web-based texts.

Along with James Damico, Mark co-founded DELVE Learning, an education company that aims to scaffold literacy and critical thinking for 21st-century learners. He has published in several academic journals, including the Cambridge Journal of Education, Curriculum Inquiry, and Education Policy Analysis Archives. He has also authored two books: "Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society: Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom" (with James Damico; Routledge, 2011) and "Controversial History Education in Asian Contexts" (co-editor; Routledge, 2013). Additionally, Mark serves on the editorial boards of Theory & Research in Social Education and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Education and serves as editor of HSSE Online: Research and Practice in Humanities & Social Studies Education.