Strategies to improve learning equity and prevent school dropouts

Martín is a Peruvian sociologist who served as the Minister of Education at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He oversaw the country's pre-primary, primary, secondary, and higher education systems and designed the national strategy for distance education in response to the pandemic. Between 2018 and 2020, he served as the head of Peru’s National Superintendence of Higher University Education (SUNEDU), the regulatory body of Peru's university system, where he led the reform for improving the quality of higher education. From 2015 to 2018, Martín was also a member of its Board of Directors.

Wadzanayi is a seasoned development practitioner who combines social work and education passions into over 10 years of social change. She has worked at ECOZI for 7 years as a program officer overseeing projects tackling issues of quality, gender sensitive and inclusive education delivery in disadvantaged communities. Wadzanayi has also led advocacy efforts engaging key policy players such as parliamentarians, directors within the government offices and school development committees. She has also engaged at National and Transnational advocacy forums.

Fernanda Luna is the Deputy Coordinator of Knowledge Generation and Mobilization (KGeM) at the IIEP-UNESCO Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. Her responsibilities include supporting team management, as well as coordinating and supervising research studies, the Information System on Educational Trends in Latin America (SITEAL), the Regional Forum on Educational Policy, and other customised studies conducted by the Institute. She has an extensive background in public educational management.

Sociologist, Master in Educational Research and Development, both in Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. Educational researcher since 1970. She has published more than 400 articles, chapters and books on the quality of education, adult education, values education and intercultural education. She founded and was General Coordinator for Intercultural and Bilingual Education in the Education Ministry in Mexico. She chaired the governing board of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation of the OECD.

She received the Joan Amos Comenius Medal from the Czech Republic and UNESCO for her contributions to education in 2008. She was head of the Research Institute for the Development of Education at Universidad Iberoamericana. She chaired the governing board of the now extinct National Institute for the Evaluation of Education. She has an honorary PHD from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexico, an Honorary Doctor of Law from Concordia University in Canada and an honorary PhD from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. She served as Academic Provost of Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. At present, she is retired from Universidad Iberoamericana and works as an independent researcher.