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Lydia Liu

Associate Vice President, Research, Education Testing Service

Portrait of Lydia Liu.

Dr Ou Lydia Liu, Associate Vice President of Research, is a globally recognized expert in the assessment of critical skills and competencies in higher education and workforce. Her research appeared in Science, Nature Human Behavior, Educational Researcher, and other influential outlets. Dr Liu was inducted as an AERA Fellow in 2023 and has received the 2019 Robert Linn Memorial Lecture Award and the 2011 National Council on Measurement in Education Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award. Dr Liu holds a doctorate in Quantitative Methods and Evaluation from the University of California, Berkeley.