Fernando Reimers

Fernando M. Reimers is an American academic and Professor of International Education. He serves as director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and his work focuses on understanding how education systems can better prepare students for civic and economic participation and contribute to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Reimers previously served on UNESCO's Commission on the Futures of Education.^[1]

Fernando M. Reimers

Career

Reimers teaches courses on education policy and educational innovation. He was the founding director of the International Education Policy Master's Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His book One Student at a Time. Leading the Global Education Movement. analyzes the careers of graduates of this program and is also available in Spanish.

Reimers' current research focuses on educational innovation and the impact of education policy, leadership, and teacher professional development on holistic child and youth development. He directs the Global Education Innovation Initiative, a cross-country research and practice collaborative he founded. The collaborative's main focus is education.

Reimers has authored a series of children's books on values and competencies for living in a diverse and interdependent world, which have been published in eleven languages. He co-authored a children's book promoting ecological awareness titled The Voices of the Trees which is also available in Portuguese and Spanish.

Reimers has been on the Harvard University faculty since 1998. Prior to that position, he worked at the Central University of Venezuela, the Harvard Institute for International Development, and the World Bank. He earned doctoral and master's degrees in education at Harvard University and obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology at the Central University of Venezuela. Reimers has received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Emerson College, a Centennial Medal Award from the Institute of International Education, and a Global Citizen Award from the Committee on Teaching About the United Nations (CTAUN). He was the CJ Koh Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore, and is a member of the National Academy of Education, the International Academy of Education, and the Council of Foreign Relations.

List of academic writings

Reimers has written or edited 50 academic books, including the following: On system level change:

• Schools and Society During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Rebuilding Resilient Education Systems After the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Primary and Secondary Education During COVID-19, in Spanish
• University and School Collaborations During a Pandemic, in Spanish
• Education to Build Back Better
• Educating Students to Improve the World, in , Spanish and Portuguese
• Audacious Education Purposes in Spanish
• Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms in Spanish
• Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World in Spanish and Portuguese
• Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century, in Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish
• Preparing Teachers to Educate Whole Students in Spanish

On educating global citizens—empowering students:

• Education and Climate Change. The Role of Universities in Spanish
• Learning to Improve the World
• Empowering Global Citizens, in Spanish and Portuguese
• Empowering Students to Improve the World in 60 Lessons, in Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish
• Teaching two lessons about UNESCO, and other lessons on Human Rights
• Learning to Collaborate for the Global Common Good

On Educational Leadership:

• Leading Educational Change During a Pandemic. Reflections on Hope and Possibility
• Leading Education Through Covid-19: Upholding the Right to Education
• Liderando Sistemas Educativos Durante la Pandemia de Covid-19
• Fifteen Letters on Education in Singapore, in Spanish
• Empowering All Students at Scale, in Portuguese and Spanish
• Letters to a New Minister of Education, in Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish

Other Comparative Education Studies

• Learning to Build Back Better Futures for Education
• How Learning Continued During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Dialogos por un Nuevo Contrato Social para la Educacion
• Advancing a New Social Contract for Education: Collaborations to Reimagine our Futures Together
• Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances in Spanish
• Hope or Despair
• Lectores y Ciudadanos. Desafios de la Escuela en America Latina
• Informed Dialogue, in Spanish
• Aprender Mas y Mejor