From reaction to strategic action in the face of climate crises

Currently, Fernanda Luna is the Deputy Coordinator of Knowledge Generation and Mobilization 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. In Argentina, she has worked in technical government teams, such as the Directorate of Public Expenditure Analysis and Social Programmes at the Ministry of Economy, and in the Undersecretariat of Inclusion and Equity at the Ministry of Education of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. From 2008 to 2019, she worked in the General Coordination of Cost Studies of the Educational System at the Ministry of Education, where she monitored and analysed education investment, costed educational programmes and plans, and participated in designing instruments for the equitable allocation of educational resources. Additionally, she has been a consultant for international organisations such as UNDP, UNICEF, and IDB, focusing on education economics and educational policies.

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.

Currently, Alejandra Cardini is the Acting Head of Office and Coordinator of the Knowledge Generation and Mobilization team at the IIEP-UNESCO Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. She leads various areas and programmes of the office, developing strategic alliances and managing human and financial resources. She is also responsible for the knowledge production and dissemination strategy through the development of research and the Information System on Educational Trends in Latin America (SITEAL), the Regional Forum on Educational Policy, and the Network of Specialists in Educational Policy.

She has extensive experience in research projects, advisory roles, and educational policy advocacy. She served as the Director of the Education Programme at the Centre for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) and led the education theme in Think 20, a G20 affinity group focused on public policy recommendations, from 2018 to 2022. She conducted research at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of San Andrés, and the Centre for Critical Education Policy Research (University of London). She worked for the Ministry of Education of the Argentine Republic, collaborating with provincial ministries on educational planning. As a teacher, she has taught at the primary level and, as a professor, in master's programmes in educational policy (at the Institute of Education, University of London; Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile; the Inter-Institutional Doctorate in Education [UNTREF, UNLA, and UNSAM]; Universidad de San Andrés; and Universidad Austral).

She holds a Primary School Teacher qualification from the Escuela Normal Superior en Lenguas Vivas Sofía Esther Broquen de Spangenberg.

Training Coordinator at the IIEP-UNESCO Latin America and the Caribbean Office from 2019 to 2020, Mariana Clucellas is currently the Training Coordinator, responsible for team management and the organisation and supervision of regular and customised training programmes and courses.