Guests

Fernando Reimers

Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and professor of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University.

An expert in the field of Global Education, his research and teaching focus on understanding how to educate children and youth so they can thrive in the 21st century. He is a member of UNESCO’s high level commission on the Futures of Education.
He has written or edited forty books, of which the most recent include: Leading Education Through COVID-19, Education and Climate Change: The Role of Universities, Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Reforms: Building an Education Renaissance After a Global Pandemic, Educating Students to Improve the World, Audacious Education Purposes: How Governments Transform the Goals of Education Systems, Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World: How Six Nations Support Teachers for 21st Century Education. At the moment, he is leading a large comparative study of how 25 universities around the world have partnered with elementary and secondary schools to sustain educational opportunity during the pandemic.
With his graduate students, he has developed three curriculum resources aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are translated into multiple languages and widely used by schools and school systems around the world: Empowering Global Citizens, Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons and Learning to Collaborate for the Global Common Good.

Click here to see more about his work
https://fernando-reimers.gse.harvard.edu/

Alfonso Otoya

General Director Fundación Barco

He is an economist from the Universidad Javeriana with a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Babson College. He has more than 15 years of professional experience with companies from the social and financial sectors. Professionally he is known for leading processes guided towards social strengthening and generating growth opportunities. Among his positions he has been the director of Valle del Cauca´s Business Group, the manager of the Green Corridor in the Foundation for Integral Development of the Pacific and the Administrative Development Director in Cali’s Mayor office (2021-2014).

Constanza Alarcón Párraga

Vice Minister of preschool, basic and secondary education

Psychologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a graduate from Special Education, postgraduate degree on Integral Social Attention and a Master´s degree on Educational and Social Development. She has 26 years of experience on childhood related topics, social and educational development in the private, cooperative and government sectors.

Valentina Polo - 17 years old

Student

Eleventh grade student at the Palmar de Candelaria educational institution, municipality of Luruaco, Atlántico.

Juan José Marín - 12 years old

Student

Sixth grade student
Fortunato Gaviria Botero Educational Institute at the Río Claro village. Municipality of Villamaria, Caldas.
He has participated in the election process for student representative in 1st and 5th grade.

Aida Oliver

Representative at the Colombian Office from the United Nation’s Fund for Childhood - UNICEF

Master of Science de American University School of International Service. Fue Directora Regional Adjunta en la Oficina Regional de UNICEF para América Latina y el Caribe. Durante su carrera en UNICEF, se ha desempeñado como Jefe Regional de Planificación, Monitoreo y Evaluación de la Oficina Regional de América Latina y el Caribe y Jefe de Operaciones del Centro de Investigación Innocenti de UNICEF en Italia.

Stephanie Jones

Professor of Education Program at Harvard University

Stephanie Jones' research, anchored in prevention science, focuses on the effects of poverty and exposure to violence on children and youth's social, emotional, and behavioral development. Over the last ten years her work has focused on both evaluation research addressing the impact of preschool and elementary focused social-emotional learning interventions on behavioral and academic outcomes and classroom practices; as well as new curriculum development, implementation, and testing.

Slide Universidad de los Andes | Vigilada Mineducación
| Reconocimiento como Universidad: Decreto 1297 del 30 de mayo de 1964
| Reconocimiento personería jurídica: Resolución 28 del 23 de febrero de 1949 Minjusticia
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