D.D. Guttenplan, a journalist, educator and author based in London, is the premier writer for the Education section of the International Herald Tribune. A product of the  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Memphis, Tennessee public school systems, he has a degree in philosophy from Columbia University, a degree in English Literature from Cambridge University, and a doctorate in History from the University of London. He has taught American History at University College and the history of popular culture at Birkbeck College. A correspondent for the weekly magazine The Nation, he is also the author of American Radical, a  biography of the American journalist I.F. Stone, and the producer of the internationally acclaimed documentary film Edward Said: The Last Interview.

In the past year his stories for the IHT have looked at the methodology behind university rankings, the impact of budget cuts on higher education in Britain, attitudes towards plagiarism in Europe and the US, French efforts to increase access to the grandes écoles, the ethics of allowing donors to dictate research priorities, the controversy over the Libyan government¹s relationship with the London School of Economics, and the growth of on-line learning and open educational resources. He has also conducted lengthy interviews with the former French minister for higher education, Valérie Pécresse, and the current chairman and CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, Kevin Roberts.