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April 7, 2023
UNESCO IIEP announces MartÃn Benavides, former Minister of Education of Peru, as its new Director
Photo: MartÃn Benavides, the new UNESCO IIEP Director.
Paris, France, April 07, 2023 — The UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) has welcomed MartÃn Benavides as its new Director.
Benavides is a Peruvian sociologist who served as the Minister of Education from February 2020 to November 2020. In this role, he designed the country’s national strategy for distance education while overseeing all levels of the education system, from pre-primary to higher education.
As IIEP Director, Benavides will provide strategic leadership for the Institute, celebrating six decades of supporting UNESCO Member States in planning and managing their education systems in 2023.
In his new role, Benavides will oversee IIEP’s capacity development offer, which includes technical cooperation for countries, a dynamic, multi-lingual training offer, and knowledge production and mobilization through its three offices in Buenos Aires, Dakar, and Paris.
“I look forward to analyzing what constitutes planning today - we know it goes beyond policy design, implementation, or evaluation. So, we will reflect on this and present new ideas for educational planning to our partners and governments. This is crucial for addressing the challenges of the post-COVID-19 era,” said Benavides.
“On behalf of the IIEP Board, I am thrilled to welcome Dr. MartÃn Benavides during this transformational time for education,” said IIEP Governing Board Chair José Weinstein. “As a former Peruvian Minister of Education and sociologist, he brings not only a wealth of knowledge to the role, but the leadership and vision to further IIEP in its important mission of developing the capacities of education actors worldwide,” Weinstein said.
Before joining IIEP in March 2023, Benavides served as Director of the Observatory of Higher Education, and from 2018, he was a senior professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Lima). Earlier in his career, in 2002, Benavides joined the Peruvian think tank Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), where he was first a senior researcher and then Executive Director from 2008 to 2018.
From 2015 to 2018, Benavides was a member of the Board of Directors of Peru’s National Superintendence of Higher University Education (SUNEDU). From 2018 to 2020, he served as superintendent of this body and led the implementation of the country’s university reform.
Benavides, who holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Policy and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, has published extensively on the sociology of education, educational policy, as well as issues related to social stratification, social classes, inequality, and youth. He has also been a visiting researcher and fellow at the Population and Development Center (Ceped) at the Université de Paris and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.
The UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning is an arm of UNESCO created in 1963 in Paris, France. It develops the capacities of education actors to plan and manage their education systems through training, technical assistance, policy research, and knowledge-sharing programs.
It issues country-specific information for use by local educational administrations. For example, the report “Funding Mechanism of Thrust Areas of Higher Education in India” is jointly published by UNESCO IIEP and UGC (University Grants Commission), India.
Source: UNESCO IIEP
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