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Aurelio Nuño Mayer
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard UniversityAurelio Nuño (1977) is a Mexican politician. He received a degree in political science at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City (2002) and he later earned a master’s degree in Latin American Studies at St. Antony´s College, University of Oxford (2008). He was Chief of Staff of the President of Mexico (December 2012- August 2015) and Minister of Education (August 2015 – December 2017). He articulated one of the most comprehensive educational reforms in many decades in Mexico. The reform consisted of five structural changes: 1) a new national curriculum for the Twenty-First Century skills; 2) a new merit-based professional system for training, hiring, and promoting teachers; 3) higher levels of school autonomy; 4) a national strategy for inclusion and equity; and 5) a new model of governance within the education system. He was a visiting practitioner at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (January 2020-July 2022). Since August 2022, he is a visiting scholar at The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is writing a book on the comparative politics of education. He also co-founded an ed-tech startup focused on closing the digital skill gaps in Latin America.
Speakers
- Alejandro Poiré
- Andreas Schleicher
- Andrés Delich
- Andrés Ucros Maldonado
- Andy Dauhajre
- Aurelio Nuño Mayer
- Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios
- Carlos Vilalta
- Christopher (Chris) Dede
- Claudia S. de Windt
- Dani Rodrik
- Daniel Bramatti
- Daniel Titelman
- Daniel Zovatto
- Elisabeth Ungar Bleier
- Gonzalo Paz
- Gustau Alegret
- Hugo Acero Velásquez
- Isabel Aninat
- Jael Rivas
- Jamil Ahmad
- Jorge Heine
- José Antonio Ocampo
- Kevin Casas-Zamora
- Laura Chinchilla
- Leonel Fernández
- Liz Duraisingh
- Lourdes Casanova
- Mangai Natarajan
- Manuel Orozco
- Marcela Meléndez
- Marcelo Bergman
- Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida
- María Noel Vaeza
- María Waleska Álvarez
- Mario Báez
- Mario Cimoli
- Massimo Tommasoli
- Mercedes Mateo Díaz
- Mónica Pachón
- Natasha Despotovic
- Raul Féliz
- Robert McCrie
- Robert Wood
- Susan Sclafani
- Tamara Taraciuk
- Tiscar Lara