Fernando Reimers

Fernando Miguel Reimers is a Venezuelan-born American scholar and practitioner of international and comparative education based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where he is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative. His work focuses on how education systems can better prepare students to thrive in the twenty-first century—especially through competencies related to civic participation, global citizenship, sustainability, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—and on how policy, leadership, and teacher professional development can support large-scale educational improvement. He has worked extensively across Latin America and globally as an educator, researcher, advisor and program-builder, and has been associated with major international education efforts including UNESCO’s International Commission on the Futures of Education.