Liam has been involved in in education for social change, local and global, for over 30 years - as teacher, youth worker, teacher-educator, school principal, lecturer, evaluator, and speaker.He is the Executive Director of GENE - Global Education Network Europe - the European network Ministries and Agencies with national responsibility for Global Education in European countries.Liam co-founded GENE (www.gene.eu) and the European Global Education Peer Review process and has worked with Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs across Europe, in national policy, strategy support for and evaluation of Global Education.

More was also involved in creating ANGEL - the Academic Network on Global Education Learning. (www.angel-network.net) - the growing network of researchers and professors in global education.

He recently convened, on behalf of GENE, the process of the European Congress on Global Education to 2050 Congress 2050 which was hosted by Ireland and co-chaired by Luxembourg, and involved a drafting committee including Belgium.He is a member of the editorial Board of the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning Institute of Education, UCL, London; and of Sinergias ED, CEAUP, Oporto; and has been visiting lecturer in teacher education and global learning at Fredrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nurnberg and Trinity College, Dublin