Hilary Callan has been Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland since 2000. From 1993 to 2000 she was Director of the European Association for International Education, based in Amsterdam. An anthropologist by training and graduate of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Oxford), she has held academic appointments at universities in the UK, Canada and the Middle East. Her research and publications in anthropology include work on biological and social anthropology, anthropology in education, occupational cultures, and gender.