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Muriel Poisson is the acting Team Leader for IIEP’s team on Knowledge Generation and Mobilization (KGeM). In this capacity, she coordinates and develops the foresight, research, communication, publication, and library functions of the Institute. She is also managing IIEP’s new research project, Using digital tools to promote transparency and accountability, as well as capacity-building activities targeting Civil Society Organisations.

In addition, she is the task manager of the Institute’s capacity-building programme on Ethics and Corruption in Education. She coordinated several international research projects on related issues, including open school data, open government in education, and teacher codes of conduct. She trained more than 3,000 people in the area and provided technical assistance to national teams in charge of developing an integrity risk assessment, a public expenditure tracking survey, or a teacher code of conduct. She is also managing ETICO, a dynamic clearinghouse on transparency and accountability issues in education.

Germán Vargas Mesa is an education economist in the Data and Evidence cluster of the Technical Cooperation team at IIEP. He is particularly interested in educational data, geospatial analysis, and the use of new methodologies to improve educational planning. He also has an interest in micro-planning, school mapping, data visualisation, and process automation. 

He has worked on projects around the world, including Education Sector Analyses in Africa and the Balkans, technical in-country support in Togo, training delivery in Madagascar and Senegal, and conducting hazard risk assessments using satellite imagery in Zimbabwe

Am Gagnon is leading the Data and Evidence Cluster of the Technical Cooperation team at IIEP.

Am is coordinating IIEP’s portfolio in micro-planning, covering the areas of decentralization and deconcentration, workforce management, geospatial data analysis, education statistics, the operationalization of the Right to Education, the use of evidence in educational planning, as well as designing tools and methodologies. 

As a demographer, he is passionate about putting data to the service of evidence-informed decision-making in educational planning.

Lynne Sergeant oversees the library and digital information cluster within the Knowledge Management and Mobilization Team. Her work focuses on ensuring the quality and accessibility of the library’s physical and digital collections on educational planning and management through strategic information watch and effective knowledge dissemination. She also manages the UNESCO Health and Education Resource Centre, a thematic portal dedicated to issues related to education for health and wellbeing.