Javier Gonzalez

Javier González is an economist (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) specializing in development, inequality, social mobility, education, and innovation. He is the Director and Co-Founder of SUMMA – the Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (created by the Inter-American Development Bank in 2016), where he advises and works collaboratively with the ministries of education in 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries to promote research and educational policies that foster greater social justice.

He is also a member of the Governing Board of Chile’s National Agency for Education Quality Assessment. At the international level, he serves as a member of the advisory group for the OECD’s Schools+ Network and has been a senior advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), UNESCO, CAF, and the World Bank.

In academia, between 2014 and 2022, he was affiliated with the University of Cambridge as a professor in political economy and development. In recognition of his outstanding academic contributions, he received the 2023 David Marsden Prize, awarded by the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).

In government, in Chile, he served as an Education and Innovation Policy Advisor in the cabinet of the Minister of Finance and as Executive Secretary of the Committee of Ministers for the Formation of Advanced Human Capital.