Professor Heidi Keller

Is the former president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP). She is a leading international scholar in the area of cross-cultural child development and is currently the director of the Research Unit on Culture, Learning, and Development at the Lower Saxonian Institute of Early Development and Learning (nifbe). Professor Keller has conducted a substantial number of research projects in different parts of the world. These experiences include culturally-sensitive recruitment, research site identification and set up, and development and adaptation of methodologies. Her theoretical work includes the development of cultural conceptions of risk, agency and relatedness as well as their interrelations in the formation of competence in cross-cultural contexts.