SIPA Education Collaborative in partnership with SIPA Latin American Student Organization and SIPA Management Specialization invite students and faculty to join us on March 23, 2018, at IAB 413 for a conversation with Columbia alumnus Jaime Saavedra, Senior Education Director at the World Bank and Former Education Minister of Peru.
Learn about global education challenges and elements for successful reform from one of the top professionals in the field.
Please register here to attend: goo.gl/efjwH5
About the speaker:
Jaime Saavedra leads the Education Global Practice at the World Bank Group. He rejoins the World Bank Group from the Government of Peru, where he served as Minister of Education from 2013 through 2016. During his tenure, the performance of Peru's education system improved substantially as measured by international learning assessments.
Throughout his career, Mr. Saavedra, a Peruvian national, has led groundbreaking work in the areas of poverty and inequality, employment and labor markets, the economics of education, and monitoring and evaluation systems. He has held positions at a number of international organizations and think-tanks, among them the Inter-American Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Labour Organization, Grupo de Analisis para el Desarollo and the National Council of Labor in Peru.
Prior to assuming his role as Minister for Education of Peru, he had a ten-year career at the World Bank where, most recently, he served as Director for Poverty Reduction and Equity as well as Acting Vice President, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Network. Mr. Saavedra holds a Ph.D in economics from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in economics from the Catholic University of Peru.
