Education Endowment Foundation:Javier González

He is Director of SUMMA and Affiliate Professor at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, where he teaches Institutional Economics and Political Economy of Development. He is also a researcher at the Millennium Science Initiative in Social Sciences “Higher Education in Chile”, housed at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and financed by the Ministry of Economy of Chile. He is also a member of the Think 20 research groups associated with the G20, a member of UNESCO’s Advisory Board for the Global Education Monitoring Report and co-editor of the Monitoring Report for UNESCO’s Educación en el Mundo (Education in the World) (2020) for Latin America with a focus on Inclusion.

He has been a consultant for UNESCO, the World Bank and the IDB, Advisor on Education and Innovation Policies of the Ministry of Finance of Chile, Executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers for the Formation of Advanced Human Capital, Director of Studies of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile, and researcher of the Ministry of Education of Chile, where he served in various positions of design and implementation of education policies. In his different functions, he contributed, among others, to the design of the Preferential School Subsidy Law, to the development of the Chile Scholarship Program, to the promotion of educational research centers (CEPPE and CIAE) and to the design of the Law of Tax Incentives for Private Investment in R+D.

He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Fundación Chile, President of the Cambridge Society for Social and Economic Development, delegate of the Working Group on Innovation Policy of the OECD, research associate at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and academic at the Institute of Economics, at the Universidad Católica de Chile.

His most recent publications include: González, J. (2019). ‘The Political Economy of Inequality in Chile: Historical Institutions, Taxation and Elite Power’. En Anand, Comim, Fennell and Weiss (eds), The Oxford Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies. Oxford University Press (in press); González, J. (2017). ‘Putting Social Rights at Risk: Assessing the Impact of Education Market Reforms in Chile’. En B.S. Ndimande & C. Lubienski (Eds.) Privatization and the Education of Marginalized Children: Policies, Impacts and Global lessons. Routledge.

He holds a PhD and MPhil in Economic and Social Development from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.