Center for International Higher Education (CIHE)Located at Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA. Director is Philip G. Altbach. CIHE defines its mission to advance knowledge about the complex realities of higher education in the contemporary world. The first “International Higher Education Research and Policy Roundtable” met on November 2-3, 2013 in Shanghai, China to discuss the role of higher education research and training centers. It was organized by the CIHE, in cooperation with the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Innovation, Higher Education and Research for Development (IHERD.) This event led to the release of the Shanghai Statement about the future of higher education.