Mark Baildon is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore. He received his B.A. in history and psychology at the University of Rochester and a Masters in Social Sciences at Syracuse University. His PhD is in Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy from Michigan State University. Prior to joining NIE, Mark taught social studies in secondary schools in the United States, Israel, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan. At NIE, he has served as the Head of the Humanities and Social Studies Education (HSSE) Academic Group and Associate Dean of Partnerships and Analytics in the Office of Education Research (OER).

His research and teaching interests focus on ways to support social studies inquiry practices, global citizenship education and 21st century literacies in new global contexts. Mark has led and collaborated on
teams with teachers, ICT specialists, education faculty, disciplinary experts, and industry partners to conceptualize, design, and implement ICT-enabled teaching and learning platforms, such as the Critical Web Reader, the Sustainability Learning Lab, the Historian's Lab, and Singapore Kaleidoscope, a course for undergraduate students at NIE.

He has published three books: Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society: Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom (with James Damico; Routledge, 2011),Controversial History Education in Asian Contexts (co-editor; Routledge, 2013), and Research on Global Citizenship in Asia: Conception, Perceptions, and Practice (with Theresa Alviar-Martin, Information Age Publishing, 2021). Mark has also published in the Cambridge Journal of Education, Curriculum Inquiry, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Cognition & Instruction, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Compare. He serves on the editorial boards of Theory & Research in Social Education and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Education.