Strategies to improve learning equity and prevent school dropouts

Martín é sociólogo peruano que atuou como Ministro da Educação no início da pandemia de covid-19 em 2020. Ele supervisionou os sistemas de educação pré-primária, primária, secundária e superior do país e elaborou a estratégia nacional de educação a distância em resposta à emergência sanitária. Entre 2018 e 2020, atuou como chefe da Superintendência Nacional de Educação Superior Universitária do Peru (SUNEDU), órgão regulador do sistema universitário do Peru, onde liderou a reforma para melhorar a qualidade do ensino superior. De 2015 a 2018, Martín também foi membro de seu Conselho de Direção.

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 (GMC) 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.