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Confronting the Education Crisis: How to Rebuild Latin America’s Human Capital

Americas Quarterly held a conversation about the urgent action needed to prevent a lost generation.

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Overview

Americas Quarterly held a virtual event examining how to address the region’s education crisis. In Latin America, schools were fully or partly closed for more than 230 days due to the pandemic, and the impact threatens not only individuals, but entire economies. Top thinkers will discuss what governments and the private sector can do to help.

Speakers

  • Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education; Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Master’s Program, Harvard University @FernandoReimers
  • Claudia Costin, Founder and Director, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education Policies (CEIPE); Professor, Getulio Vargas Foundation @ClaudiaCostin
  • Cecilia Tornaghi, Managing Editor, Americas Quarterly; Senior Director, Policy, Americas Society/Council of the Americas @ctornaghi (moderator)

No registration is required to watch this webcast. The program will be livestreamed on this page at 9 a.m. ET on February 8. You can also watch this event on Twitter and YouTube.

Event Information: Emilie Sweigart, esweigart@as-coa.org

Press Inquiries: mediarelations@as-coa.org

Speakers

Fernando Reimers
Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education; Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Master’s Program, Harvard University

Fernando Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and the director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Master’s Program at Harvard University. An expert in the field of global education...

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Claudia Costin
Founder and Director, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education Policies (CEIPE)

Claudia Costin is the founder and director of CEIPE, the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education Policies, a think-and-do tank within the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a leading private university in Brazil where she is a professor. She is a visiting professor at the...

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Cecilia Tornaghi
Managing Editor, Americas Quarterly; Senior Director of Policy, AS/COA

Cecilia Tornaghi is the managing editor of Americas Quarterly. A Brazilian-American journalist, she has been covering Latin America for the last 25 years with a focus on policy, business and economics. She spent 13 years at Bloomberg, starting as a Nasdaq reporter, then as an...

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