Stephen McCloskey is director of the Centre for Global Education, a development non-governmental organisation based in Belfast that provides courses, resources and seminars on international development issues. He is editor of Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal funded by Irish Aid which has been in publication since 2005. He is co-editor of From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies (2015, London: Pluto Press) and editor of Development Education in Policy and Practice (2014, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan). He manages education projects for Palestinian refugee children in the Gaza Strip and Beirut, Lebanon and regularly writes on a range of development issues for books, journals and online publications.