Fernando Reimers
His work concerns advancing understanding of how schools empower students to participate civically and economically, and to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
is an analysis of the contributions of the graduates of this program to the Global Education Movement.
His current research focuses on educational innovation and the impact of education policy, leadership, and teacher professional development on education that supports the holistic development of children and youth.
He directs the Global Education Innovation Initiative, a cross-country research and practice collaborative he founded focusing on education.
Reimers has written or edited 50 academic books, including the following: On the system level change: On educating global Citizens—Empowering Students: On Educational Leadership: Other Comparative Education Studies He has written a series of children's books designed to foster intergenerational conversations around values and competencies that are necessary to live well with others in a diverse and interdependent world, which have been published in eleven languages.
He has also co-authored a children's book to promote ecological awareness titled The Voices of the Trees, also available in Portuguese and Spanish.
Previous to that he worked at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, the Harvard Institute for International Development, and the World Bank.
He earned Doctoral and master's degrees in education at Harvard University and obtained a Licenciatura en Psicologia at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
He received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Emerson College, a Centennial Medal Award from the Institute for International Education, and a Global Citizen Award from the US Committee for Teaching About the United Nations.
He was the CJ Koh Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore.
Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st century education reforms.
Reimers, F. Educating Students to Improve the World.
How governments transform the goals of education systems.
Liderando Sistemas Educativos Durante la Pandemia de Covid-19.
(Published also in Portuguese and Spanish by Organization of Iberoamerican States).
Preparing Teachers to Educate Whole Students: An International Comparative Study.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Publishing.
Reimers, F. et al. Learning to collaborate to advance the global common good.
Desafios de la Escuela en America Latina.
(Published in Spanish as Educacion Para Todos.
Reimers, F. et al. Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons.
(Published in Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Spanish.)
(Published in Spanish Quince Cartas Sobre la Educacion en Singapur.
(Published in Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.)
The challenges to educational opportunity in the Americas at the end of the XX century.
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
(Published in Spanish as Escuelas Desiguales, Oportunidades Diferentes by Editorial Arco-La Muralla.
(Published in Spanish as Diálogo Informado by Centro de Estudios Educativos in Mexico.
