New Book: Universal Education
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New Book: Universal Education —
ABOUT ME
I was born in Bilbao in 1986. I work in education. In particular, I work in education policy and reform. That's what I have been doing for the last 12 years. I am at the intersection between social sciences, education, statistics and public policy implementation. Always from an inter-disciplinary perspective. And always working with theorists and practitioners. With academics and policy makers.
I have a degree in Mathematics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). I have a Master in Economics from CEMFI and a Master in Mathematical Modelling from University College London (UCL). Then I got my PhD in Economics of Education at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
WHAT I DO
I just published a new book. It title titled Universal Education. I have written it with my friend and co-author Juan Manuel Moreno. It has been published by Debate, the editorial house from Penguin Random House in Spain. In this book, we travel around the world to talk about how the ambitious global project of providing education for all children is suffering major defeats in recent decades and what we can do to continue supporting largest knowledge-expanding enterprise in the history of mankind. If you want to know more, click here. You can buy it here.
I work at EsadeEcPol, a Think Tank in Spain. I am deputy director of research, and I lead the Education area. We do public policy analysis and applied research, always trying to be useful and move things forward in the debate. We also advise governments, companies and NGOs. From here we have launched very important debates in education on full-day schooling, demographic decline and its implications on education, learning loss after the pandemic, social segregation between schools, private tutoring, or the grade increase in the university entrance exams. We have also taken action by launching an innovative experimental online tutoring program to support vulnerable students: it was called “Menttores”.
I also continue to work, albeit at a lower intensity, at the World Bank’s Education Global Practice. I have worked there since 2012, first as a staff member for a few years in Washington D.C., and then as an external consultant from Spain. In all this time, I have visited more than 20 countries and participated in education reforms supporting governments with projects that have changed the lives of millions of students.
Before EsadeEcPol I did some other things. I wrote at the blog Politikon about education and learned a lot about how the public conversation works in Spain. I supported the Proyecto Atlántida (an alliance of public-school teachers for educational innovation) so that there would be a political pact for education in Spain, but we failed. Then we launched REDE (Network for an Educational Dialogue) where a ample group of organizations, teachers and researchers showed that national agreements in education were possible. I helped create the ISEAK Foundation and was involved in several projects with the consulting firm KSNET. I am part of COTEC Foundation’s network of experts “The 100”, where I continue to collaborate.
TALK TO ME
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