Mitja Sardoč is senior researcher at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana and a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). His research interests and expertise include philosophy of education, political philosophy, and education policy. Over the last two decades, he has been member of several (national and international) research projects on equality of opportunity, multiculturalism, diversity, patriotism, education reform, radicalization and violent extremism, citizenship education, etc. He is author of more than 50 scholarly articles and book chapters as well as editor of a number of journal special issues on equality of opportunity, the American Dream, citizenship education, radicalization and violent extremism, multiculturalism, toleration, and patriotism. He acted as an expert for various research initiatives including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe, and the Slovene Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also carried out consultancy work for other international institutions (e.g., Cardiff University, ODIHR). He is Managing Editor of Theory and Research in Education (http://tre.sagepub.com/), Editor-in-Chief of The Handbook of Patriotism, The Palgrave Handbook on Toleration, co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream, and editor of The Impacts of Neoliberal Discourse and Language in Education published by Routledge. He also published a collection of interviews entitled Making Sense of Radicalization and Violent Extremism (Routledge, 2022) and convened a book symposium journal special issue on Michael Sandel’s book The Tyranny of Merit.