Marek Tesar is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. He previously served as Head of School, Associate Dean, and Director of the Centre for Global Childhoods at the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. His scholarship focuses on the philosophy of education, early childhood education, and childhood studies.

He holds leadership roles in two major learned societies in his field: he chairs the Steering Committee of Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) and is a Fellow and Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). He also edits two seminal journals in his field-Educational Philosophy and Theory (Taylor & Francis) and Policy Futures in Education (Sage).